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March 9, 1980
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Louisville Triumphs; Missouri Beats Irish; Missouri, Louisville Victors Iowa 77, N.C. State 64 Maryland 86, Tennessee 75
By Unknown Author
LINCOLN, Neb., March 8--Mark Dressler scored 32 points, including 6 in overtime, as Missouri toppled Notre Dame, 87-84, today in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Midwest Regional basketball tournament.
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Rangers Bow to Montreal; Herron Staves Off Rangers Fast Canadien Goals Help Defeat Rangers Rangers Not Discouraged 37 Shots at Baker Rangers Scoring
By Deane McGowen Special To the New York Times
MONTREAL, March 8--The Montreal Canadiens ended the Rangers' five-game winning streak tonight with a 5-2 victory at the Forum. The Flying Frenchmen have now gone unbeaten in their last eight games, with only a tie with Atlanta marring the victory string.
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Countdown to the Presidential Primary; Voters Are Wooed For State Primary
By Richard L. Madden
HARTFORD WITH only 16 days to go before Connecticut's first fullfledged Presidential primary election, the state's Democrats and Republicans are being canvassed, identified, catalogued and wooed as they never have before.
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'Country' Movies Are in Tune With the 'New Patriotism'; 'Country' Movies Are In Tune With 'New Patriotism'
By Phil Patton
You've come a long way baby, from Arkansas to Hollywood," sings Loretta Lynn. All of a sudden, country-andWestern music, the fastest growing genre of popular music, has been discovered by Hollywood. After decades of being confined to lowbudget action films for the drive-in circuit, country music and country-music themes are showing up in big-studio, nationally distributed films.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 1980, covering March 9, 1980.
- 1
The Wall
Pink Floyd
- Last week
- 1
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- 1
- Weeks
- 13
- 2
Damn The Torpedoes
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 2
- Weeks
- 18
- 3
Phoenix
Dan Fogelberg
- Last week
- 4
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 14
- 4
Permanent Waves
Rush
- Last week
- 5
- Peak
- 4
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- 6
- 5
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 28
Notable Births
1980Matt Barnes, American basketball player[†]
Matt Kelly Barnes is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies and won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in his final season in the league in 2017. Barnes is currently a basketball analyst for ESPN as well as NBC Sports California for Sacramento Kings games.
1980Chingy, American rapper[†]
Howard Earl Bailey Jr., better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American rapper. He toured as an opening act with fellow St. Louis rapper Nelly in 2002, and signed with Georgia-based rapper Ludacris' record label, Disturbing tha Peace (DTP), that same year. Released in a joint-venture with Capitol Records, his 2003 debut single, "Right Thurr" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
1980Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor[†]
Matthew Gray Gubler is an American actor, best known for his role as criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, for which he also directed several episodes. Gubler has appeared in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 500 Days of Summer, Life After Beth, Suburban Gothic, and Newness. He was also the voice of Simon in Alvin and the Chipmunks and its three sequels.
Historical Context for March 9, 1980
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]