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1980Moris Carrozzieri, Italian footballer[†]
Moris Carrozzieri is an Italian former football defender.
1980Kayte Christensen, American basketball player[†]
Kayte Lauren Christensen is an American color commentator for the Sacramento Kings and former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association.
1980Nicole Gius, Italian skier[†]
Nicole Gius is an Italian alpine skier. She was born in Schlanders, Italy. She competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
1980Carol Huynh, Canadian wrestler[†]
Carol Huynh is a retired Canadian freestyle wrestler. Huynh was the first gold medalist for Canada in women's wrestling and the first gold medallist for the country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is also the 2010 Commonwealth Games and two-time Pan American Games champion. She has also achieved success at the world championships where Huynh has totaled one silver and three bronze medals. Huynh is also an eleven time national champion. Following the 2012 Olympics, Huynh retired from competition and started coaching the University of Calgary Dinos wrestling team. Huynh was elected to the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013. In early 2015 she was selected as a United World Wrestling Super 8 Ambassador for the global campaign focusing on the development of women in wrestling and has also served as the Chair of the United World Wrestling Athletes Commission from 2013 to 2017. As of 2020 she is the current coach of Wrestling Canada's Next Gen team based in Calgary.
1980Hasan Üçüncü, Turkish footballer[†]
Hasan Üçüncü is a retired Turkish footballer. Üçüncü was born in Sürmene, Trabzon Province. Standing at 177 cm and weighing 74 kg, he wears the # 15 jersey and plays in the midfield position. He assisted Gökdeniz Karadeniz's goal against Galatasaray in the second half of the 2005-2006 Süper Lig season, helping Gökdeniz come back from a long suspension.
FORGOING a few extra games of bowling, bridge and golf, 72year-old Ralph Weinstein spends several days a week working as a remedial-reading tutor at the Ridgeway elementary school in White Plains. So does his wife, Lillian.
AUBURN, Ala., Nov. 15 You seldom win in any sport without big plays. The University of Georgia football team turned in one big play after another today, made the most of them and defeated Auburn, 31-21.
HARTFORD SENATORS James J. Murphy Jr., Richard F. Schneller, Cornelius P. O'Leary and Howard T. Owens Jr. looked a little startled one day last week as they suddenly came face to face with each other in a corridor outside the State Senate chamber at the Capitol.
MINEOLA EACH morning of the week, Acting State Supreme Court Justice Leo F. McGinity Sr. and his wife, Mary, go to mass at a church near their Baldwin home to pray for the safe return of their missing son.
WORKING farms can be like prisons. Everyone agrees that they're needed but not in the backyard. The steady encroachment of suburban development on what is left of New Jersey's agricultural community has intensified urban-rural tensions and, in many cases, made life miserable for farmers.
ESSEX WHEN John Chamberlain, an artist who built his substantial international reputation on massive sculptures using crushed auto fenders, first moved here, he did so because he thought the town's seemingly relaxed, yachty flavor would be conducive to his work.
TWO years ago Caldwell College in northern New Jersey was, by any rational standards, a poor bet to survive the 1980's. A small, Roman Catholic,...
A proposed television station that would broadcast on Channel 43 has moved a giant step closer to reality with the Fed eral Communications Commission's granting of a license to a Bridgeport corporation composed primarily of women.
LONG Island Rail Road riders who voted for a $500 million state transportation bond issue last year and have been waiting for an improvement in service are going to have to wait a lot longer.
WRITERS dread their biographers. Like the scholar in Henry James's "The Aspern Papers," denounced as "a publishing scoundrel" when he tries to recover the papers of a famous poet, they are obsessive in their quest for manuscripts, anecdotes, material. And if their subject is still alive, they hang around, unwanted and importunate.
WASHINGTON Normally, the changeover from one administration to the next is a time of post-mortems for the losers, confusion for the victors, and lassitude for a capital weary of campaign melodrama.
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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