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ALBANY, March 27--Each time Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink returns from meeting on the budget with Governor Carey, he adds a page to a black looseleaf notebook on his desk.
LONDON, Friday, March 28--An oilfield platform with more than 200 people on board collapsed in the storm-lashed North Sea last night, tossing many into the water and trapping an estimated total of 50 in a section that appeared to be submerged. More than 60 people were believed to be missing.
TEHERAN, Iran, March 27--Iran's Revolutionary Council has postponed indefinitely the second round of elections for the new Parliament, thus appearing to delay until sometime this summer a decision on the fate of the American captives in Teheran.
The plummeting price of silver yesterday shook the enormous, $2 billion silver empire of Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt of Dallas, pressing them to raise millions of dollars in cash and throwing Wall Street into a furor.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 1980, covering March 28, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Heart
1980Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper[†]
Stiliani "Stella" Pilatou is a Greek long jumper.
1980Luke Walton, American basketball player[†]
Luke Theodore Walton is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the lead assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 10 seasons in the NBA as a forward, winning two NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers. He also won a title as an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors before serving as the head coach of the Lakers from 2016 through 2019. Additionally, Walton served as the head coach of the Sacramento Kings from 2019 to 2021.
1980Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (born 1918)[†]
Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, an actor, television host, and songwriter.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]