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Turnover on the New York Stock Exchange, swelled by increased institutional and professional buying, soared to 67.7 million shares yesterday, the second highest on record. Tuesday's volume was 52.3 million shares.
WORLD auction records in dozens of antiques and decorative arts categories were toppled with astounding frequency in 1979. Indeed, the end of the year and the decade brought the first prices of more than $1 million for French 18th-century furniture and antiquities. Even more impressive to some was the performance of such lesser wares as toys, typewriters and thimbles most of which were purchased not by museums, but by collectors or dealers.
The Roscoe Diner always does a fairly brisk business. On busy days, this sprawling restaurant in upstate New York, 130 miles northwest of Manhattan, serves a few thousand meals. On any day, it dishes out several hundred.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The Immigration and Naturalization Service, riven by political interference and engulfed in malpractice, has stumbled to virtual bureaucratic collapse, according to Government officials, Congressional sources and a wide range of private experts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 1980, covering January 17, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Donna Summer
Eagles
Bee Gees
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
1980Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer[†]
Maksim Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is an American Latin–ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is widely known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing with the Stars, on which he first appeared in season two. In his 17 seasons as a competing pro on the show, Chmerkovskiy made it to the final round five times, with two runner-up and two third-place finishes. On May 20, 2014, Chmerkovskiy, paired with Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis, won his first Dancing with the Stars title. Chmerkovskiy has also starred in the Broadway productions of dance shows Burn the Floor and Forever Tango.
1980Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress and musician. She made her film debut in Mumford (1999) and had a supporting role in Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous (2000). Deschanel is known for her deadpan roles in comedy films such as The Good Girl (2002), The New Guy (2002), Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Yes Man (2008), 500 Days of Summer (2009), and Our Idiot Brother (2011). She has also ventured into dramatic film territory with Manic (2001), All the Real Girls (2003), Winter Passing (2005), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Happening (2008), and The Driftless Area (2015). From 2011 to 2018, she starred as Jess Day on the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.
1980Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer[†]
Modestas Stonys is a Lithuanian professional footballer and a goalkeeper coach who plays for an A lyga club FK Kauno Žalgiris. He plays the position of goalkeeper and is 1.88 m tall and weighs 80 kg. He is a former member of the Lithuania national football team.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]