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1980Dilnaz Akhmadieva, Kazakhstani singer and actress[†]
Dilnaz Muratkyzy Akhmadieva is a Kazakhstani pop singer and actress of Uyghur origin, born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
1980James Chambers, English footballer[†]
James Ashley Chambers is an English professional footballer. Chambers played predominantly as a right-back, although he also played at centre-back, left-back and right-wing during his career. He last played for Worcester City.
1980Eiko Koike, Japanese actress[†]
Eiko Koike is a Japanese actress.
1980Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer[†]
Chalermwong Udomna, who boxes as Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, is a retired professional boxer from Thailand who fought in the Super bantamweight division. He is a former WBA Regular Bantamweight and Super Bantamweight World Champion, and a former PABA regional Bantamweight and Superbantamweight. His manager is Niwat Laosuwanwat who is the manager of the former WBA Junior bantamweight World Champion and legendary Thai boxer Khaosai Galaxy.
1980Marek Krejčí, Slovak footballer (died 2007)[†]
Marek Krejčí was a Slovak footballer who played as a striker.
1980Ana Caterina Morariu, Romanian-Italian actress[†]
Ana Caterina Morariu is a Romanian-born actress Italian naturalized.
1980Christian Obrist, Italian middle-distance runner[†]
Christian Obrist is an Italian middle distance runner, who specializes in the 1500 m.
1980Eoin Reddan, Irish rugby union player[†]
Eoin Reddan is a retired Irish rugby union player who played at scrum half. He initially attended the Jesuit boarding school, Clongowes Wood, before moving school to Crescent College Comprehensive where he captained the school side. On leaving school he studied at the University of Limerick.
1980John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1900)[†]
Sir John McEwen was an Australian politician and farmer who served as the 18th prime minister of Australia from 1967 to 1968, in a caretaker capacity following the disappearance of prime minister Harold Holt. He was the leader of the Country Party from 1958 to 1971, serving as the inaugural deputy prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971.
1980Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.[†]
Lake Peigneur is a brackish lake in the U.S. state of Louisiana, 1.2 miles north of Delcambre and 9.1 mi (14.6 km) west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of 200 feet, it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. Its name comes from the French word "peigneur", meaning "one who combs."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19--In a day filled with signs and symbols, President-elect Ronald Reagan continued his ceremonial tour of the capital today, meeting with old allies and old foes and trying to make some new friends who can help him run the country after his inauguration Jan. 20.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19--The Speaker of Iran's Parliament said today that the United States had accepted "in principle" Iran's four conditions for ending the hostage crisis, but he reaffirmed that until Iran's demands were actually met, the release of the 52 Americans would be delayed.
WHEN it's time to renovate, many clients ask a designer to achieve the impossible: turn their small rooms into the generous spaces they de serve. Multifunctional rooms, well-equipped open kitchens, sybaritic bathrooms and endless closet space are some of the contemporary luxuries that they expect will materialize from warren-like apartments.
WEST TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 19--The four-state commission that regulates the use of drinking water from the Delaware River basin today cut New York City's supplies for the second time in about a month and moved toward possible declaration of a "drought emergency" in the region early next month.
ONCE upon a time it was taken for granted among artists that if you could do anything you could also do everything. An artist was not someone who simply made paintings or sculptures.
It was not, by any standard, the usual crowd that assembled yesterday at the York Avenue gallery of Sotheby Parke Bernet, the venerable art auctioneer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (AP)-- Housing starts rose a modest 1.6 percent in October while building permits, a harbinger of future activity, fell sharply, the Commerce Department reported today.
IT seems astonishing that glass--a medium so difficult to work that until recently it was produced only in factories--should now be flourishing in such a variety of individual expressions.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19--If the United States is to burn more coal, the new demand must come in large measure from electric utilities. Barely half of America's electricity now comes from coal, which is not a fuel for cars or trucks or planes or trains.
FOR students who plan to work this summer, Thanksgiving time is not too soon to start lining up job prospects. According to placement specialists, many summer jobs in government, business and ...
MUNICH, West Germany, Nov. 19--A sharp split between Roman Catholic Church leaders and West Germany's Catholic youth over central questions of church policy broke into the open today on the last day of Pope John Paul II's visit to West Germany.
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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