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NANTUCKET, Mass., March 7 On a bitterly cold, blustery night last January, Dr. Margaret M. Kilcoyne disappeared from her vacation home on the deserted moors here, creating a mystery that seems to deepen almost daily.
WASHINGTON, March 10 The amount of consumer installment credit outstanding rose by $1.37 billion in January for an annual rate of growth of 5.3 percent, the Federal Reserve Board reported today.
The "prep school" look has graduated from the college campus and taken its place in the shop windows of the nation's big cities.
SUBTLE brain waves, such as a newly discovered one that appears only when a person finds nonsense at the end of an otherwise ordinary sentence, are enabling scientists to eavesdrop on some of the highest mental activities of the human brain.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 1980, covering March 11, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Dan Fogelberg
Rush
Michael Jackson
1980Rich Hill, American baseball player[†]
Richard Joseph Hill, nicknamed "Dick Mountain", is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Kansas City Royals organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Diego Padres. He has played during each MLB season from 2005 through 2024. He has said that he will play in 2025.
1980Mark Rober, American YouTuber and engineer[†]
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He later worked for four years at Apple Inc. as a product designer in their Special Projects Group, where he authored patents involving virtual reality in self-driving cars.
1980Dan Uggla, American baseball player[†]
Daniel Cooley Uggla is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, and Washington Nationals. In 2010, Uggla won the Silver Slugger Award at second base.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]