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1980Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress[†]
Vanessa Joy Lachey is an American television host, model and actress. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and hosted Total Request Live on MTV. She has starred in two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead role in the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons.
1980Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder[†]
Dominique Maltais is a Canadian snowboarder, specialising in snowboard cross. She is a two-time Olympic medallist, winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Torino Games and a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Games. She also competed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, where she failed to reach the final. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships, she won a bronze medal in 2011 and a silver medal in 2013. She is the 2012 Winter X Games champion, and has won the Crystal Globe as the overall FIS World Cup champion in snowboard cross five times, in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 8-- Georgia, its dreams of an unbeaten and untied football season and a national championship seemingly shattered, ...
A DODGE dealer in Mount Kisco, N.Y., offers an unusual optional extra. A bumper sticker that proclaims, "This vehicle built in America by Americans for Americans." On a similar nationalistic note, the United Auto Workers union is advertising in newspapers and on radio for Americans to buy American cars. And at least 12 states have adopted regulations requiring state agencies to do just that.
FOR any participant, however peripheral, in the miserable tangle of the Arab-Israeli conflict, so repetitive, so threadbare, so infinitely sad, so apparently insoluble, an eyewitness account of life in Egypt by an ...
In an era of wide cyclical swings in the construction of homes that has seen estimated housing starts in 1980 drop by half a million units from a high of 2 million in 1978, the remodelers of America's aging existing structures have become an increasingly large factor in the building industry.
DANBURY THE construction crews that have been churning up the hills on the western and southern sides of this city for three years in the first phase of a massive building project have largely completed the horizontal, futuristic structures of two giant ...
Plans to adapt the former Police Headquarters building in Little Italy to a luxury hotel or tenant-owned apartments or a cultural center have stirred up new controversies over the city's "request for proposals" process of negotiating major new developments and raised questions about the neighborhood's future.
"THE suburbs have come of age," said Joseph M. Mar giotta, the Nassau Republican chairman, as he assessed the stunning victory of Ronald Reagan and Alfonse M. D'Amato in last week's election.
"IS it possible to have a life centered around a family and a child and still be an artist?" asked John Lennon. For Mr. Lennon, widely regarded as the most thoughtful and outspoken of the four Beatles during their heyday in the 60's, the question is far from rhetorical. To gether with his wife, Yoko Ono, and their 5-year-old son, ...
LOCUST VALLEY FOR the last month, most of the tenured faculty members at Locust Valley High School have gone about their duties in a strictly "by-the-book" manner. They are protesting the school district's decision to continue proceedings against a colleague accused of putting a tarantula in another teacher's candy dish, ...
THE elections last Tuesday opened the way for a new generation of political leadership in Connecticut, and, in the view of many politicians, established Senator-elect Christopher J. Dodd as the new Democratic power in the state.
ATLANTA, Nov. 8--Georgia Tech. despite having its worst season in 46 years, had one of the biggest days in its 89 years of football today when it ended Notre Dame's chances for a perfect season by achieving a 3-3 tie with the undefeated Irish.
I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.
The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.
Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:
These historical events are just a few examples of the fascinating moments in history you can explore through this tool. Whether you're interested in your own birthday, significant historical dates, or just curious about what was making headlines on any given day, this website offers a unique window into the past through the lens of contemporary news coverage.
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