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Beneath the soaring curve of the Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch yesterday announced a $10 million plan to preserve and rehabilitate Prospect Park.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (AP)--New orders received by the nation's factories rose nine-tenths of 1 percent in November to $147.8 billion, more than making up for the four-tenths of 1 percent drop in October, the Commerce Department reported today.
DETROIT, Jan. 3--In its sharpest production cutback in five years, the Ford Motor Company announced today that it would close 11 of its 13 car assembly plants in the United States for up to two weeks beginning Monday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 1980, covering January 4, 1980.
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
Styx
Stevie Wonder
Eagles
1980D'Arcy Carden, American actress and comedian[†]
D'Arcy Beth Carden is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for portraying Janet in the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016–2020), for which she earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and Greta Gill in the Prime series A League of Their Own (2022). She also played Gemma in Broad City (2014–2019) and Natalie Greer in the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023).
1980Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer[†]
Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro, known simply as Miguel, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a right-back or a winger.
1980Justin Ontong, South African cricketer[†]
Justin Lee Ontong is a former South African cricketer, who played domestic cricket for the Cape Cobras. He has played two Test matches, 26 One Day Internationals and twelve Twenty20 Internationals as an all-rounder.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]