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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 20 Iraq will maintain its current high level of oil production this year to help developing countries, not to make up for the decline in Iranian production, senior officials in the oil ministry have disclosed.
A State Supreme Court justice has held that New York City bears a share of the liability for damages which could total millions of dollars in the 1973 collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel. Four persons were killed in the collapse, and about 40 people were injured.
Officials of the United States Olympic Committee said yesterday that they interpreted President Carter's proposal that the Olympic Games be transferred from the Soviet Union as an indication that the United States would go through the "proper channels" in such an effort. The officials said that they would therefore try to enlist the support of other nations to move the Games.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Two weeks after President Carter placed a partial embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union, the program to ease the impact on farmers remains mired in technical difficulties and threatens both to place a drain on the Federal Treasury and to raise food prices for consumers, according to Administration and private experts.
LONDON, Jan. 20 With the Marsh McLennan Companies considering whether to go ahead with a hostile bid for the C.T. Bowring Company, Bowring executives may be musing about how disloyalty was punished in centuries past.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 1980, covering January 21, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Donna Summer
Eagles
Bee Gees
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
1980Karsten Forsterling, Australian rower[†]
Karsten Forsterling is an Australian former representative rower. He was a national champion, world champion, a dual Olympian and Olympic medal winner. He represented Australia at eight senior world rowing championships between 2002 and 2019 in both sculling and sweep oared boats.
1980Lee Kyung-won, South Korean badminton player[†]
Lee Kyung-won is a badminton player from South Korea. Lee was the women's doubles gold medallist at the 2002 Asian Games. She competed at the Olympic Games in 2000, 2004, and 2008, winning women's doubles bronze in 2004, and silver in 2008. She captured the women's doubles gold at the Asian Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Lee educated at the Sungji Girls' Middle School, Sungji Girls' High School, and graduated from the Yong In University.
1980Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress[†]
Nana Kondō , better known by the stage name Nana Mizuki , is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and narrator. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name in 1993 and made her debut as a voice actress in 1996. Her prominent roles include Hinata Hyuga in the long-running ninja series Naruto as well in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Tamao Tamamura in Shaman King 2001 and 2021, Colette Brunel in Tales of Symphonia, Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Tsubasa Kazanari in Symphogear, Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire, Tsubomi Hanasaki in Heartcatch Precure! and Ann Takamaki in Persona 5. She also had official dubbing roles in live action version of Itazura na Kiss from Korea and Taiwan, as well in Hunger Games film series as Katniss Everdeen. She is also famous for dubbing roles portrayed by Taiwanese actress, Ariel Lin.
1980Xavier Pons, Spanish rally diver[†]
Xavier "Xevi" Pons Puigdillers is a Spanish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2003 to 2014.
1980Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.[†]
Iran Air Flight 291 was a flight from Mashad Airport to Tehran-Mehrabad Airport that crashed on 21 January 1980 during its approach to Tehran-Mehrabad runway 29 in foggy and snowy weather conditions, killing all 128 people on board. At the time, Iran Air Flight 291 was the deadliest aircraft disaster in Iranian history.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]