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April 22, 1980

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Kennedy and Carter End Efforts In a Close Race in Pennsylvania; Carter Aide Sees 'Tight' Race Carter and Kennedy End Effort to Win in Voting Today Timing of Baker Endorsement Kennedy Ridicules Carter

By Hedrick Smith Special To the New York Times

PHILADELPHIA, April 21--With his Presidential candidacy on the line, Senator Edward M. Kennedy today made a final appeal for Pennsylvania Democrats to vote "no more Jimmy Carter" in what most politicians see as a very close race in this state's pivotal Presidential primary tomorrow.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 1980, covering April 22, 1980.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Wall by Pink Floyd

    The Wall

    Pink Floyd

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    19
  2. 2
    Album cover for Against The Wind by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Against The Wind

    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for Glass Houses by Billy Joel

    Glass Houses

    Billy Joel

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for Mad Love by Linda Ronstadt

    Mad Love

    Linda Ronstadt

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    6
  5. 5
    Album cover for Off The Wall by Michael Jackson

    Off The Wall

    Michael Jackson

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    34

Notable Births

1980Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician[†]

Quincy Zuma Wambitta Timberlake is a Kenyan political activist, occultist, and former presidential candidate, now resident in Australia. Along with Esther Arunga and Joseph Hellon, he is the co-founder of the PlaCenta Party of Kenya, which according to its manifesto aims "to promote and protect individual rights and freedoms set forth in the Kenyan Constitution and to limit the scope of national government authority and spending."

Notable Deaths

Jane Froman

1980Jane Froman, American actress and singer (born 1907)[†]

Ellen Jane Froman was an American actress and singer. During her thirty-year career, she performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash.

Fritz Strassmann

1980Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (born 1902)[†]

Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Robert Frisch.

Historical Context for April 22, 1980

In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]