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WEST POINT, N.Y., Jan. 24--More than half of the first women to graduate from the United States Military Academy will be assigned to combat branches, mostly at their own request. They will, however, be barred by law from specialties likely to involve close combat.
Patricia Koppmann, the South Dakota housewife who last year filed a lawsuit against her state Blue Shield organization after it refused to pay her surgical claims for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery, said yesterday that the company had changed its policy and that all of her claims had been paid.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24--Politically as well as diplomatically, President Carter's State of the Union Address was a forceful stroke that has added for the moment to the momentum of his victory Monday night in Iowa and complicated the task of his opponents.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 1980, covering January 25, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
1980Alayna Burns, Australian track cyclist[†]
Alayna Burns is an Australian track cyclist.
1980Michelle McCool, American wrestler[†]
Michelle Leigh Calaway is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a two-time WWE Women's Champion, as well as the first WWE Divas Champion. She is a WWE Hall of Famer, class of 2025.
1980Xavi, Spanish footballer[†]
Xavier Hernández Creus, commonly known as Xavi Hernández or simply Xavi, is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who most recently managed La Liga club Barcelona. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Xavi is renowned for his exceptional passing, vision, and positioning. Xavi spent most of his playing career at Barcelona. With the initial management guidance by Pep Guardiola and using the tiki-taka football philosophy, Xavi was part of a widely lauded midfield combination trio with Andrés Iniesta and Sergio Busquets; from 2008 to 2015 the trio together were instrumental in FC Barcelona's exceptional on-field successes in 7 seasons, winning five La Liga titles, three Copa del Rey titles and three UEFA Champions League titles, including two continental trebles in 2008–09 and 2014–15.
1980Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.[†]
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]