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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 1980, covering February 21, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson
Dan Fogelberg
Eagles
Donna Summer
Kenny Rogers
Rush
Styx
Neil Diamond
1980Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Bradley M. Fast is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He spent his amateur career in the British Columbia Hockey League, and was selected in the third round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, 84th overall, by the Carolina Hurricanes. He played in one NHL game for the Hurricanes, scoring a goal, before embarking on a European career.
1980Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Tiziano Ferro is an Italian pop singer and songwriter. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single "Perdono" and has remained commercially successful since then, in several countries. Ferro has released a Spanish version of each of his albums and has also sung in English, Portuguese, and French. Known as the modern face of Italian pop music, he frequently writes songs for other artists and has produced albums for Giusy Ferreri, Alessandra Amoroso, and Baby K.
1980Brendan Sexton III, American actor[†]
Brendan Eugene Sexton III is an American actor.
1980Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th King of Bhutan[†]
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the fifth Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan. His reign began in 2006 after his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
1980Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (born 1914)[†]
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany, and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer.
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Douglas LaChance, president of the newspaper deliverers union, was indicted in Manhattan yesterday on Federal charges that he had obtained $330,000 in cash payoffs from 14 companies that distribute newspapers in the New York area.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--House and Senate conferees agreed today on how to distribute the $227.3 billion that the "windfall" profits tax on oil companies is expected to raise in coming years, but left the details to future legislation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--New York's latest effort to reimburse parochial schools for the costs of meeting state testing and record-keeping requirements was upheld today by the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The Supreme Court ruled today, 5 to 4, that members of faculties at private universities are "managerial" employees whose efforts to unionize are not protected by Federal labor law.
Almost a third of the city's savings banks reported operating or overall losses for the fourth quarter of 1979, primarily because of the extraordinarily high level of interest rates.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AP)--The United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the final quarter of 1979, a stronger showing than earlier statistics had indicated, the Government reported today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The Carter Administration, concerned about the future availability of imported oil, is sending Energy Secretary Charles W. Duncan Jr. to Saudi Arabia early next month to discuss resumption of purchases for the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, according to senior Government officials.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 20-- The release of the American hostages in Iran was again thrown into doubt today when the United Nations inquiry commission delayed its trip from Geneva to Teheran for at least three days.
DETROIT, Feb. 20--The General Motors Corporation announced plans today to expand its capacity to build automobile components in Europe. Trade sources estimated the cost of the new plans at $1 billion.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the elder daughter and last surviving child of President Theodore Roosevelt, died today after a short illness in the mansion she had lived in for more than half a century. She was 96 years old.