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A State Supreme Court jury in Manhattan yesterday convicted Nathan Giles Jr., an ex-convict who has spent nearly half his life in prison, of the 1978 murder of an obstetrics nurse.
WASHINGTON, March 26--The Governors of Utah and Nevada told Congress today that they were opposed to the Pentagon's plan to deploy a $34 billion intercontinental missile system in their states because it would create huge environmental ...
The credit squeeze on consumers tightened yesterday as two of the nation's largest lenders to individuals, the Beneficial Corporation and the Bank of America, announced cutbacks in their lending activities.
NEWARK, March 26--The 15-hour takeover of two floors of the Essex County Jail by inmates ended at dawn today with a negotiated settlement with the rioters and the release of five hostages.
ARE the existing tax credits, designed to encourage energy conservation and the development of alternative energy sources, doing their job? And, if so, are the higher tax credits now on their way through Congress really needed? Predictably, most homeowners and manufacturers of energy-saving products favor the credits, but many others find fault with them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 1980, covering March 27, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Heart
1980Sean Ryan, American football player[†]
Sean P. Ryan is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL draft. He played college football at Boston College.
1980Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player[†]
Michaela Paštiková is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic.
1980Maksim Shevchenko, Kazakhstani footballer[†]
Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko is a Kazakhstani professional football coach and former player. He works as a deputy director at the academy of the Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow. He also holds Russian citizenship.
1980Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (born 1912)[†]
Stephen Gould Fisher was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood.
1980The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.[†]
Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people. The capsize was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the Second World War. The rig, located approximately 320 km east of Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway and was on hire to the U.S. company Phillips Petroleum at the time of the disaster.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]