On this day
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MUSCAT, Oman, Jan. 22 Since Nov. 25, three weeks after the takeover of the American Embassy in Teheran and more ...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Jan. 22 Members of the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee were in a meeting discussing the hows and wherefores of making artificial snow when their legal counsel brought them news of the real thing.
PARIS, Jan. 22 It was, in a way, the Russian Revolution that introduced caviar to in ternational high society, and now the Iranian revolution threatens to kill it off.
TUCSON, ARIZ. LUSH lettuce leaves jut from a Styrofoam sheet that floats on a nutrient-rich pond where young catfish are growing. Fat canta loupes hang from an A-frame trellis that straddles the pond.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 1980, covering January 23, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
1980Giovanni Michelotti, Italian engineer (born 1921)[†]
Giovanni Michelotti was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. His notable contributions were for Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Triumph marques. He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland after the merger of Leyland and BMC.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]