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Textron made $13 million in improper foreign payments while G. William Miller was the company's senior officer, a staff investigation by the S.E.C. has concluded. But it found no evidence that Mr. Miller, the Federal Reserve chairman whom President. Carter has nominated as Treasury Secretary, knew of the payments. [Page A1.]
Gilda Radner Live From New York (Revue): Gilda Radner interviewed; illus
Co reports profits in 2d quarter were $22 million, up 163% from same '78 period (S)
West Germany reports June trade surplus of $919 million, smallest monthly surplus since August '76 and one that gave country its lowest 1st-half trade surplus of any year since '73 (M)
Reddy asks new Prime Min Charan Singh to form new Cabinet; Singh says major priorities of new Govt will be to eliminate troublesome economic and social problems; some political problems facing Singh's Govt discussed; Singh and Reddy illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 1979, covering July 27, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Earth| Wind & Fire
Cheap Trick
Electric Light Orchestra
1979Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician, feminist, and human rights activist (died 2018)[†]
Marielle Franco was a Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist and human rights activist. Franco served as a city councillor of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro for the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) from January 2017 until her assassination.
1979Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer[†]
Jorge Armando Arce Armenta, best known as Jorge Arce, is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2014. He is a multiple-time world champion, and the second boxer from Mexico to win world titles in four weight divisions. In a storied career, Arce held the WBO light flyweight title from 1998 to 1999; the WBC and lineal light flyweight titles from 2002 to 2004; the WBO super flyweight title in 2010; the WBO junior featherweight title in 2011; and the WBO bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012. Additionally he held the WBC interim flyweight title from 2005 to 2006, the WBA interim super flyweight title from 2008 to 2009, and challenged once for the WBC featherweight title in his final fight in 2014.
1979Sidney Govou, French footballer[†]
Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou is a French former professional footballer who played primarily as a winger, but was occasionally deployed as a striker. He is most prominent for his lengthy playing career at Lyon where he won seven Ligue 1 titles.
1979Shannon Moore, American wrestler and singer[†]
Shannon Moore is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his work with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1999 and 2001 and with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for several years in the 2000s. He has also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He currently wrestles for Atomic Legacy Wrestling (ALW) where he is the current ALW Heavyweight Champion in his 3rd reign.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]