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WASHINGTON, April 25 The plan, in preparation since November, called for a swift strike to rescue the American hostages held in Teheran.
WASHINGTON, April 25 President Carter, in the aftermath of the failure of the military effort to rescue the hostages in Teheran, said today that the United States would persevere in "every possible avenue" for their release and would hold Iran's authorities responsible for their safety.
WASHINGTON, April 25 It was 4:57 P.M. in Washington yesterday when President Carter, speaking on the telephone from his hideaway study next to the Oval Office, directed Defense Secretary Harold Brown at the Pentagon to terminate the rescue mission in Iran.
LONDON, April 25 Saudi Arabia has quietly but substantially expanded its capacity to produce oil and is pressing to push it even higher by 1982, according to several oil industry sources here and in Saudi Arabia.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 1980, covering April 26, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Linda Ronstadt
Michael Jackson
1980Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress[†]
Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She made her acting debut, three weeks after turning 15, in an episode of All My Children in 1995 and next took on the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, garnering a nomination for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award. Her first role in a feature film was in Robert Rodriguez's horror science fiction The Faculty (1998).
1980Marlon King, English footballer[†]
Marlon Francis King is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1980Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist[†]
Anna Maria Mucha is a Polish actress. She is best known to Western audiences as Danka Dresner in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List. In Poland, she is known for her regular role in the soap opera L for Love (2003–present).
1980Channing Tatum, American actor and producer[†]
Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor and producer. He made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough with the sports comedy film She's the Man (2006) and the dance film Step Up (2006). He rose to prominence for playing Duke in the action films G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), the title role in the comedy-drama films Magic Mike (2012), Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023), and an undercover cop in the action-comedy films 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014).
1980Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (born 1893)[†]
Dame Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer. The daughter of the producer and playwright Robert Courtneidge, she was appearing in his productions in the West End by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his Edwardian musical comedies.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]