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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Christopher Masterson, American actor[†]
Christopher Kennedy Masterson is an American actor and disc jockey known best for his role as Francis on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. He is the younger brother of actor Danny Masterson, and the older half-brother of Alanna Masterson and Jordan Masterson, who are also actors.
1980Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer[†]
Jonathan Simon Woodgate is an English football manager and former player.
1980Lizz Wright, American singer-songwriter[†]
Elizabeth LaCharla Wright professionally known as Lizz Wright, is an American jazz and gospel singer.
1980Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (born 1888)[†]
Yitzhak (Fritz) Baer was a German-Israeli historian and an expert on medieval Spanish Jewish history.
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LOWELL, Mass., Jan. 18 This is one of the cities where Industrial America was born more than 150 years ago, when some of the nation's first large factories were built here around a series of canals and water wheels.
ALBANY, Jan. 21 Calling for tight new limits on government spending at the state and local level, Governor Carey proposed today a $13.79 billion budget for New York State for fiscal 1980-81.
DETROIT, Jan. 21 The old order changeth this year at the General Motors Corporation, the nation's largest auto maker and the very model of the modern industrial corporation. Both Thomas A. Murphy, the company's chairman, and Elliott M. Estes, its ...
The videodisk competition heated up yesterday when the Matsushita Industrial Company said that it intended to market a system that is not compatible with those developed by North American Philips Corporation and the RCA Corporation.
IT is superfluous to send chocolates to a loved one. Love is enough. Or rather, it produces the same response. Better to send chocolates to a rejected lover, since love lost may drain the body's store of a potent mood-altering chemical that chocolate has in rich supply.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 President Carter sent personal messages to more than 100 heads of government today seeking their support for his proposal that the Summer Olympics not be held in Moscow unless Soviet troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan by Feb. 20, Administration officials said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 President Carter, outlining a modest package of legislative proposals for the election-year Congress, formally announced today that his budget for the fiscal year 1981 would seek no tax cuts.
EDUCATORS in New York State are arguing over how best to prepare high school students for jobs as secretaries, bookkeepers, data processors and other office positions.
Energy and some special-situation stocks posted impressive gains yesterday, while the general market ended moderately higher in continued heavy trading.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21--The Supreme Court today upheld military regulations that require members of the armed services to get the permission of their commanding officers before collecting signatures on petitions of complaint to civilian officials.