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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater[†]
Craig Buntin is a Canadian former pair skater. He is the co-founder and CEO of Sportlogiq, an AI-powered sports analytics company based in Montreal, Quebec. With former partner Meagan Duhamel, he is the 2009 Canadian silver medallist, the 2008 & 2010 Canadian bronze medallist, and the 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist. With Valérie Marcoux, he represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they placed 11th.
1980Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (born 1932)[†]
Gün Sazak was a Turkish nationalist politician and former government minister of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). He was assassinated by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front after his police guard was removed. After his killing, MHP supporters carried out the Çorum massacre in reprisal.
1980The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.[†]
The Gwangju Democratization Movement, also known in South Korea as May 18 Democratization Movement, was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the coup of Chun Doo-hwan. The uprising was violently suppressed by the South Korean military.
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A second 16-year-old was arrested yesterday in the murder of Stephen Zwickert,the Queens honor student who was killed May 15 on his way home from a high school prom. The first suspect had surrendered to the Queens District Attorney last Thursday.
NORFOLK, Va., May 26 President Carter promised today to support increases in pay and benefits to retain experienced servicemen, making his pledge to more than 6,500 Navy enlisted men and officers who returned to Norfolk today after almost nine months at sea and to the throngs of friends and relatives who lined the docks here to greet them.
The Koch administration is discussing with Federal officials the possibility of putting into effect, as early as next year, Federal loan guarantees for New York City that originally were not expected to be used at all.
SEOUL, South Korea, Tuesday, May 27--South Korean troops seized full control of the rebel-held center of the southwestern...
HOUSTON, May 26 George Bush ended his grueling two-year pursuit of the Republican Presidential nomination today, and said he would ask his delegates at the national convention to cast their ballots for Ronald Reagan.
A NEW and more systematic search is under way to find the Tasmanian tiger if, that is, there are any of these large marsupials left to be found anywhere...
It was a fine day for a parade yesterday, and there were lots of them, up Riverside Drive to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on 89th Street, down Metropolitan Avenue in the Forest Hills section of Queens and through Brooklyn's Starrett City and on Staten Island.
MIAMI, May 24 Among the signs that clutter the walls of the Haitian Refugee Center there is one that serves as a somber testament to a continuing struggle: "In Haiti," it says in French, "there are terrible things one does not see on travel posters."
Faced with a weakening economy, business executives, like consumers before them, have begun to cut back on spending, postponing and canceling optimistic plans to build plants and to acquire new production equipment.
GRIM evidence of ancient savagery a mass grave containing the skeletons of at least 486 murdered and mutilated men, women and children has been found near the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota.
AT 6:30 P.M. on a Friday, students and some faculty members at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln met for a last-minute briefing on a carefully rehearsed exercise that was to take place the following day. The plans called for a simulated incident of international terrorism.