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CALABRITTO, Italy, Nov. 26 --Thousands of volunteers, impatient with the pace of the Government's relief effort, streamed into the mountain region east of Naples today to help the victims of Sunday's devastating earthquakes.
MOSCOW, Nov. 26--Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, told Senator Charles H. Percy in a long meeting in the Kremlin today that Moscow opposed any "stagnation" in efforts toward limiting strategic weapons.
Dozens of the nation's largest banks announced yesterday that they were increasing their prime lending rates to 17 percent from 17 percent, the fourth rise this month.
Cooper Industries Inc. of Houston and the Crouse-Hinds Company of Syracuse announced yesterday that they had agreed in principle to merge, further complicating a bitter takeover fight in which Internorth Inc. has been seeking to acquire a reluctant CrouseHinds.
Carl H. Lindner, the astute but publicity-shy Cincinnati financier, is seeking to convert his American Financial Corporation into a privately owned company, it was announced yesterday.
EVERY seven years, my husband is eligible for a sabbati cal from his duties as a professor. During three such respites, we have rented our house and moved our family to a foreign university.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1980, covering November 27, 1980.
Bruce Springsteen
Barbra Streisand
Kenny Rogers
Stevie Wonder
Queen
1980Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jackie Greene is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has a solo career and became a member of The Black Crowes in 2013, though the band broke up in 2015 before he could contribute any studio work.
1980Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor[†]
Veronika Portsmuth is an Estonian conductor and singer.
1980Michael Yardy, English cricketer[†]
Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricket coach and former professional cricketer who played limited over internationals for the England cricket team between 2006 and 2011. He played as a left-handed batsman and captained Sussex County Cricket Club. He had an unusual batting technique which involved him taking guard outside leg stump before a pronounced shuffle across the crease immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowled slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action, and was used as a bowling all-rounder in England's One Day International and Twenty20 International teams. Yardy retired from professional cricket at the end of the 2015 season. Yardy was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
1980F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (born 1882)[†]
F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.
Famous People Who Share Your Birthday
10 notable people born on November 27, across different years.
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The film reported at No. 1 at the United States box office for November 27, 1980.
Reported period gross: $872,420
Direct period match: This is the reported box-office period matched to November 27, 1980.
Historical No. 1 listing.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
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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