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1980Adam Kreek, Canadian rower[†]
Adam Kreek is an author, executive business coach and Canadian rower. He is a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
1980Darryn Randall, South African cricketer (died 2013)[†]
Darryn Randall was a South African cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Border during the 2009–10 season, making four first-class and four List-A appearances. He was born in East London. Randall made his first-class debut against Northerns on 8 October 2009.
1980Joel Ward, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Joel Randal Ward is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks. He is currently an assistant coach with the Vegas Golden Knights.
1980Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1905)[†]
Chaudhri Muhammad Ali was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fourth prime minister of Pakistan from 1955 until his resignation in 1956. His government transitioned Pakistan from a British Dominion to an Islamic Republic.
1980Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (born 1914)[†]
Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg.
1980Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.[†]
The Salvadoran Civil War was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by Cuba under Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. A coup on 15 October 1979 followed by government killings of anti-coup protesters is widely seen as the start of civil war. The war did not formally end until after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when, on 16 January 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed in Mexico City.
A Criminal Court judge who released a murder suspect without bail last week and let her stay overnight in his home has asked the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to look into the matter, according to the administrative judge of the court in Brooklyn.
OAK BROOK, Ill., Dec. 1--In recent months, the Bunker Ramo Corporation, the feisty little maker of electronic components and bank video display terminals, has steadfastly resisted merger proposals from ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Senator Ted Stevens, a member of President-elect Ronald Reagan's transition group, said tonight he expected Senator Jacob K. Javits to be appointed to a high position in the Reagan administration.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--"Name me the top 25 law firms in the country and we're litigating against them," says Thomas G. Shack Jr., betraying perhaps a hint of pride at his sudden prominence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--The International Monetary Fund announced today that it had dramatically expanded its lending capacity after receiving the required number of votes from its members to put into effect a $25 billion increase in quotas.
THROUGHOUT New York City, and in most other cities around the country, the health and lives of American children are being jeopardized, ac cording to pediatric specialists, by a penny-wise and pound-foolish system of medical care that they say seriously discriminates against the poor and near-poor.
PHILADELPHIA THE rapid development of computers, X-ray techniques, subtle chemical analysis and other space-age sciences is opening an avenue through which the mummies of ancient Egypt may yield new insight into man's development and present state of health.
Three major New York banks raised the interest rates they charge on consumer installment loans, such as automobile loans, by as much as six percentage points yesterday, when the new state law that eliminated usury ceilings on such loans came into effect.
THE professor wanted to apply to the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women for a grant to develop a course on women. Peggy McIntosh, the program director, explained that the center's approach was not to create separate new courses but to help faculty members integrate information on women into the courses they already taught.
WARSAW, Dec. 1--Stanislaw Kania, the Communist leader, told the party's policy-making Central Committee today that the Soviet Union had granted the equivalent of $1.3 billion in aid to ease Poland's economic crisis.
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 1--King Hussein said today that, in view of an increasing military threat from Syria, he had asked the United States and other Western countries to speed deliveries of arms already contracted for by Jordan.
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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