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Jesse Owens, whose four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin made him perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history, died of lung cancer yesterday in Tucson, Ariz. He was 66 years old.
The New York arts world offered up both a mournful sound and a joyous hymn at a Congressional hearing in the Juilliard School yesterday. The possibility of reductions in the Federal arts budget provoked the mourning; the arts and their part in our national life raised the hymn.
IT is an amazing testament to nature's instinct for survival that humans can live without some of the organs with which they were born.
RECENT accidents attributed to "human error" in the highrisk environments of airplane cockpits and nuclear plant control rooms, some researchers say, have been blamed on the wrong humans.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 1980, covering April 1, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Heart
1980Dennis Kruppke, German footballer[†]
Dennis Kruppke is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward.
1980Randy Orton, American wrestler[†]
Randal Keith Orton is an American professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. Orton is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, and has the tied-third most world championship reigns in history, with a career spanning over 20 years.
1980Bijou Phillips, American actress and model[†]
Bijou Mary Phillips Masterson is an American model, socialite, former actress and singer. The daughter of musicians John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model. Phillips made her singing debut with I'd Rather Eat Glass (1999), and since her first major film appearance in Black and White (1999), she has acted in Almost Famous (2000), Bully (2001), The Door in the Floor (2004), Havoc (2005), Hostel: Part II (2007), and Choke (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she played the recurring role of Lucy Carlyle on the television series Raising Hope.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]