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Suddenly, for thousands of Americans, Canada is a hero as a result of its role in spiriting six United States diplomats out of Iran.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1--Unemployment rose sharply last month after remaining relatively stable for the previous 17 months. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the jobless rate jumped to 6.2 percent in January from 5.9 percent the previous month.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1--Treasury Secretary G. William Miller today denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of improper foreign payments by Textron Inc. while he was its chairman. He said he had no intention of resigning from the Government.
GREENSBORO, N.C., Feb. 1--Four black men, for the most part heavier and more prosperous and certainly less grim, returned here today to a lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth's store where they were refused service 20 years ago, an event that galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
The Government of China announced yesterday that it was joining the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, and the Government of Japan said that it, too, felt that a boycott "was desirable."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 1980, covering February 2, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson
Kenny Rogers
1980Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler[†]
Edward Ellsworth Annis is a Canadian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Teddy Hart. He currently wrestles on the independent circuit. He is one-half of the RCW Tag Team Champions with Steven Styles. He wrestled on a National scale for Major League Wrestling (MLW) as the leader of The Hart Foundation, where he held the MLW World Middleweight and MLW Tag Team championships. He has also wrestled for AAA, the short-lived Wrestling Society X, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Dragon Gate USA. He operates a wrestling school in Edmonton. He is the son of Georgia Hart of the Hart wrestling family and wrestler B. J. Annis. He is also the nephew of former professional wrestlers Bret Hart and Owen Hart. Hart achieved an early degree of fame when he became the youngest wrestler to be signed to the World Wrestling Federation. His subsequent release, controversial actions while wrestling on the independent circuit and various legal problems have earned him a measure of infamy.
1980Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress[†]
Zhang Jingchu is a Chinese actress. She first gained recognition for the film Peacock (2005), which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zhang is also known for her roles in the films Protégé (2007), Red River (2009), and Aftershock (2010).
1980Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer[†]
Oleguer Presas Renom, known simply as Oleguer, is a Spanish former professional footballer. Primarily a centre-back, he could also operate as a defensive right-back.
1980William Howard Stein, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)[†]
William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work. Stein was also involved in the invention of the automatic amino acid analyzer, an advancement in chromatography that opened the door to modern methods of chromatography, such as liquid chromatography and gas chromatography.
1980Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.[†]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. A leading American counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]