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1980John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player[†]
John-Michael Liles is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Avalanche, Toronto Maple Leafs, Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins. In addition to his playing career, Liles is a minority owner of the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League (USHL).
1980Josh Mathews, American wrestler and sportscaster[†]
Joshua Matthew Lomberger, better known by the ring name Josh Mathews, is an American professional wrestling producer, former play by play commentator, and former professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a producer. He is best known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and WWE.
1980Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer[†]
Teboho Aaron Mokoena, known as Aaron Mokoena, is a South African former footballer. He is currently the assistant coach of Cape Town City.
1980Alviro Petersen, South African cricketer[†]
Alviro Nathan Petersen is a South African former cricketer who played for the Highveld Lions and for Lancashire until 2016 when he was banned from cricket for two years by Cricket South Africa after his involvement in match-fixing in the 2015–16 Ram Slam T20 Challenge. A right-handed batsman, he has represented South Africa in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 cricket. He was the captain of the Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket.
1980Nick Swisher, American baseball player[†]
Nicholas Thompson Swisher is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a switch hitter who threw left-handed, and played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves. He won the 2009 World Series with the Yankees and was an All-Star in 2010. A power hitter with excellent plate discipline, Swisher hit at least 20 home runs in each of nine consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2013, and reached 75 bases on balls on seven occasions in that span.
1980Steffen Thier, German rugby player[†]
Steffen Thier is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
1980Herbert Flam, American tennis player (born 1928)[†]
Herbert Flam was an American tennis player who was ranked by Lance Tingay as the World No. 4 amateur in 1957.
1980Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.[†]
Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana was an Upper Voltan military officer who served as the President of Upper Volta, in power from 3 January 1966, to 25 November 1980. He held the additional position of Prime Minister from 8 February 1974, to 7 July 1978.
In 1967, the manufacture of pianos and organs represented slightly more than 50 percent of the total assets of the company now known as the BaldwinUnited Corporation. Last year, it was about 2 percent.
ROME, Nov. 24--More than 1,000 people were killed and several thousand were injured in the earthquake last night in southern Italy, the Italian Interior Ministry said tonight.
LONDON, Nov. 24 (AP)--The Britain Government cut its minimum lending rate to banks by two percentage points, to 14 percent, today, while introducing a package of reductions in public spending and higher indirect taxes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--Congress is expected to approve soon a ban on the sale after 1983 of tax-exempt mortgage subsidy bonds, which have been an increasingly popular device used by states and localities to bring down the costs of home ownership.
A monthly rate increase averaging nearly 18 percent for 4.2 million individual and small-group subscribers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York has been approved by Albert B. Lewis, the New York State Superintendent of Insurance, the department reported yesterday.
"MOST of the people you'll be working with," I had heard in my one-after noon orientation, "are on the psychiatric trash heap.
Ronald P. Reagan, the 22-year-old son of President-elect Ronald Reagan, and Doria Palmieri, a 29-year-old literary researcher with whom he had been living since last year, were married yesterday in a private civil ceremony in Manhattan.
Mayor Koch will ask all restaurant owners in New York City today to serve water only to those customers who request it.
WARSAW, Nov. 24--Railway workers, pressing wage demands, staged a twohour strike today in Warsaw and Gdansk, affecting commuter lines. They said they would walk out for four hours tomorrow unless a minister met with them to discuss their grievances.
A northbound motorist on the Henry Hudson Parkway who turns off at 125th Street will confront three traffic signs on a light stanchion at the bottom of the exit ramp:
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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