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LOS ANGELES--"It's amazing how much power you can have with a single share of stock and a 15-cent stamp," said Carl Olson, flashing a smile.
RAY BROOK, N.Y., Feb. 21--At the Olympic Village's movie theater, the Chinese athletes, who do not understand a word of English, were watching "West Side Story."
THE New York City Opera opened its spring season at the New York State Theater last night, and like a Pied Piper it seems to have lured into assorted halls and theaters in the metropolitan area a
LONG, long before the current photography boom, there was the Royal Photographic Society in London-- founded in 1853 and now boasting a collection of some 20,000 prints and negatives. And from this great collection there has now come a superb exhibition--
Based on a staff analysis that praised New York City's approach as "ambitious and well-developed," the Financial Control Board unanimously approved yesterday the city's plan to eliminate gaps in the next two municipal budgets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 1980, covering February 22, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson
Dan Fogelberg
Eagles
1980Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Jeanette Biedermann is a German singer, actress, and television personality. Born and raised in the greater Berlin area, Biedermann began performing as a member of a troupe of acrobats in a children's circus at the age of six. She later attended beauty school before dropping out to pursue her music career following her participation and win of the Bild-Schlagerwettbewerb competition in 1998. The following year, Biedermann placed fourth in the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest and was propelled to stardom when she was cast in a main role in the soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In 2000, she made her musical breakthrough with her first two full English-language albums Enjoy! (2000) and Delicious (2001).
1980Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (born 1886)[†]
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
1980Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.[†]
The "Miracle on Ice" was an ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. It was played between the hosting United States and the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, during the medal round of the men's ice hockey tournament. Although the Soviet Union was a four-time defending gold medalist and heavily favored, the United States achieved an upset victory, winning 4–3.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]