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CHARGES that today's young people are poorly educated and counterclaims that the schools are better than ever tend to be carried on without benefit of facts. Missing from the debate is a yardstick ...
Disappointment over President Carter's program to curb inflation battered stock prices yesterday and the market sustained its largest decline in five months.
A STUDY of some 300 barrier islands of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts concludes that Government policies that encourage development on the offshore lands are often damaging to the isles that protect the mainland's coastline, and have ...
CHICAGO, March 17 In the largest primary election of the Presidential campaign so far, Illinois voters will try to find their way through complicated ballots tomorrow in a contest that tests the ambitions of two native sons, Ronald Reagan and John B. Anderson, and offers President Carter the opportunity to pile another major defeat on the hopes of his ...
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 1980, covering March 18, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Dan Fogelberg
Rush
Linda Ronstadt
1980Sébastien Frey, French footballer[†]
Sébastien Frey is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1980Sophia Myles, English actress[†]
Sophia Myles is an English actress. She is best known in film for portraying Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in Thunderbirds (2004), Isolde in Tristan & Isolde (2006), Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Erika in Underworld (2003) and Underworld: Evolution (2006) and Freya in Outlander (2008).
1980Vitaly Vishnevskiy, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Vitaly Viktorovich Vishnevskiy is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Atlanta Thrashers, Nashville Predators, and New Jersey Devils, as well as for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, SKA St. Petersburg and Severstal Cherepovets in the KHL.
1980Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater[†]
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic champion, a four-time World champion, a three-time European champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 1996 World Junior champion, and a two-time World Professional champion.
1980Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900)[†]
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
1980A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.[†]
The Vostok-2M, GRAU index: 8A92M was an expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1991. Ninety-three were launched, of which one failed. Another was destroyed before launch. It was originally built as a specialised version of the earlier Vostok-2, for injecting lighter payloads into higher Sun-synchronous orbits. It was a member of the R-7 family of rockets, and the last Vostok.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]