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Last year was a good one for C. Raymond Dahl, chairman and chief executive of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation. In addition to an impressive $421,000 in salary and annual bonus, Mr. Dahl collected another $97,335 as a special bonus.
DETROIT, April 23--Domestic sales of cars made by the nation's Big Three manufacturers dropped 33.5 percent in the mid-April selling period, the steepest year-to-year decline for any 10-day period this year, the companies reported today.
TEHERAN, Iran, April 23--Apparently reacting to the threat of economic sanctions by West Europe's Common Market, Iran today announced "important" new trading accords with the Soviet Union, Rumania and East Germany.
LUXEMBOURG, April 23--An unspoken strategy lay behind yesterday's decision by the European Economic Community to take a series of diplomatic and economic steps against Iran in support of ...
The rally in the money markets continued yesterday, as the Treasury sold one-year bills at an average discount rate of 10.44 percent. This represents an extremely sharp decline of four percentage points from the previous sale of bills a month earlier.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 1980, covering April 24, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Linda Ronstadt
Michael Jackson
1980Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer[†]
Fernando Enrique Arce Ruiz is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1980Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player (died 2008)[†]
Karen Asrian was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team in the 37th Chess Olympiad.
1980Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (born 1904)[†]
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
1980Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.[†]
Operation Eagle Claw was a failed U.S. Department of Defense attempt to rescue 52 embassy staff held captive by Revolutionary Iran on 24 April 1980. It was ordered by US President Jimmy Carter after the staff were seized at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran. The operation, one of Delta Force's first, encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area called Desert One, but only five arrived in operational condition. One had encountered hydraulic problems, another was caught in a sand storm, and the third showed signs of a cracked rotor blade. During the operational planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than six helicopters remained operational upon arrival at the Desert One site, despite only four being absolutely necessary. In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the field commanders advised President Carter to abort the mission, which he did.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]