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SEATTLE, April 20--The Seattle SuperSonics kept alive their hopes of becoming the first National Basketball Association team to win consecutive championships in more than a decade as they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, ...
HAVANA, April 20--Costa Rica told Cuba today that it was willing to grant permanent asylum to all 10,000 Cubans who sought refuge at the Peruvian Embassy. The move was a bid to President Fidel Castro to resume evacuation flights to San Jose immediately.
The families of three more of the American hostages in the United States Embassy in Iran plan to go to Teheran soon and have been assured by the militants holding the compound that they will be allowed to visit their relatives, according to a University of Kansas professor.
The blocks of the Upper East Side just off Fifth Avenue are, by common agreement, incomparable--a dazzling array of Beaux-Arts, neo-Georgian, neo-Federal and brownstone town houses, sprinkled with handsome ...
LONDON, April 20--Britain's accountants, long among the leaders in exploring ways to adjust corporate accounts for inflation, have finally reached the bottom line.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 1980, covering April 21, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Linda Ronstadt
Michael Jackson
1980Tony Romo, American football player and announcer[†]
Antonio Ramiro Romo is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Eastern Illinois Panthers, where he made an Ohio Valley Conference championship appearance in 2001 and won the Walter Payton Award the following year. Romo signed with the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2003.
1980Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (born 1894)[†]
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life and for his book The Origin of Life.
1980Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (born 1928)[†]
Sohrab Sepehri was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad. Sepehri's poems have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian and Kurdish.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]