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1980Thed Björk, Swedish race car driver[†]
Thed Björk Bang-Melchior is a Swedish racing driver, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He also finished second in 2005 and 2009, and third in the 2008 STCC and the 2012 TTA – Racing Elite League.
1980Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer[†]
Gordon Greer is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Greer played for Clyde, Blackburn Rovers, Stockport County, Kilmarnock, Doncaster Rovers, Swindon Town and Brighton & Hove Albion during his career. He also played in 11 full international matches for Scotland between 2013 and 2016.
1980Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer[†]
Déguy Alain Didier Zokora is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He represented the Ivory Coast national team for 14 years, beginning in 2000, and is currently the nation's most capped player. He now serves as an assistant manager at AFAD Djékanou.
1980Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (born 1929)[†]
Elston Gene Howard was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder. During a 14-year baseball career, he played in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball from 1948 through 1968, primarily for the New York Yankees. A 12-time All-Star, he also played for the Kansas City Monarchs and the Boston Red Sox. Howard served on the Yankees' coaching staff from 1969 to 1979.
TRENTON NINE months after explosions ripped through drums of hazardous waste at the Chemical Control Corporation in Elizabeth and set them ablaze, New Jersey remains so heavily burdened with dump sites that officials do not know in what area a fire might erupt next.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13--The families of the American hostages in Iran met here this weekend, but, because there was little news on the progress of negotiations, it was mostly an occasion to bolster themselves for another Christmas with a loved one still in captivity.
Transit officials last night suspended indefinitely the operation of their entire fleet of 637 new Grumman Flxible buses, following a weekend inspection. They said almost 100 of the buses were found to have developed conditions that made safe travel doubtful.
SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 13--After a week of intense negotiations between the armed forces and the Christian Democrats, the country's major political party, Jose Napoleon Duarte has been named the first civilian President of the country...
NEWARK DORA W. sits in the Adolescent Clinic at College Hospital here, bluejeans rolled up smartly over her cowboy boots and a plaid shirt stretched over her bulging belly.
BRUSSELS--The specter of Soviet occupation of Poland is the focal point of a seemingly unending series of grave international crises. Everything is in place for an overwhelming move. The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military committee said it could happen "within a matter of hours," so swiftly that Western intelligence might not know definitely until "almost after the fact."
Leaders of a homeowners association at a condominium in Connecticut discover they need $250,000 in a hurry for critical roof repairs. Nobody has considered building reserves and there is concern the residents cannot afford a special assessment. Even worse, the leaders learn that no ...
Beter Shaffer, who wrote "Equus," a play about horses, has now written "Amadeus," a play about a pair of composers. One of them is Antonio Salieri. Antonio who? The other is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and he needs no de
"I'm half inclined to think we're all ghosts," says a character in one of Henrik Ibsen's plays. "It's not only what we've inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but
TRENTON ANYONE planning to drive to At lantic City in the near future would be well advised to make sure that his car's lights are in working order and that the beast isn't belching smoke or doing anything else that might attract the attention of a state trooper.
THE Long Island Lighting Company, which in the past has successfully fought contentions that it would be cheaper for customers if the Shoreham nuclear plant were either delayed or converted ...
IN a move that was expected to make waves in boating circles, the Social Register has blackballed the Larchmont Yacht Club, that venerable Westchester institution, and its members have risen virtually as one to ask, not why but who cares?
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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