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1980Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian footballer[†]
Stephen Leroy Appiah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career, he played for Udinese, Parma, Brescia, Juventus and [[Fenerbahçe.
1980Tomas Kalnoky, Czech-American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Tomas Kalnoky is a Czechoslovak-born American musician. He is the lead singer/guitarist and songwriter of the bands Streetlight Manifesto and Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, and goes by the pseudonym Toh Kay as a solo performer. He is the former lead singer/guitarist for 3rd-wave ska band Catch 22, but left the band after making only one album to attend Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, for visual art. According to the booklet of Somewhere in the Between, Kalnoky attended Rutgers University. He is the owner of Pentimento Music Company, a record company.
1980Maarja-Liis Ilus, Estonian pop musician[†]
Maarja-Liis Ilus, sometimes better known by her performing name Maarja is an Estonian pop musician and presenter. She has represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest twice. She was only 15 when she participated in the 1996 contest.
1980Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (born 1891)[†]
Karl Dönitz was a German grand admiral and convicted war criminal who, following Adolf Hitler's suicide, succeeded him as head of state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in April 1945. He held the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies weeks later. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of the war.
HOGMANAY must be the most oddly named feast day in the world. It is Scotland's name for a New Year's celebration and derives, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the old French word "aiguillanneuf" meaning "the last day of the year at which New Year's gifts ...
The Chase Manhattan Bank and several smaller banks reduced their prime lending rates yesterday by a full percentage point, to 20 percent, from the record 21 percent peak set only last Friday.
Four men were stabbed to death on the streets of midtown Manhattan in an eight-hour period Monday afternoon and evening, and police officials said yesterday one man might be responsible for all of the murders.
A Federal judge ruled yesterday that the Census Bureau must revise its population figures to compensate for a "disproportionate undercount" in New York City and New York State.
PEKING, Dec. 23--Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, was charged with contempt of court today after she shouted at a panel of judges and prosecutors that they were "fascists" and Chinese Nationalist agents, the New China News Agency reported.
Venezuela and Mexico, which together supply about 7 percent of the petroleum needs of the United States, yesterday announced price increases for their crude oil of $3 to $5.50 a barrel, depending on quality.
The long battle between the CurtissWright Corporation and the Kennecott Corooration moved into the courtroom yesterday for the second time in two years, as the New Jersey aerospace company opened its case to fight an unwelcome $335 million takeover bid by Kennecott.
A $22.5 million Federal grant that is a key component of the financing package for the proposed Portman Hotel in Times Square is in "serious trouble" at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal officials said yesterday.
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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