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JOHANNESBURG, Monday, June 2 Guerrillas attacked three strategic fuel installations near here last night, setting off explosions at seven storage tanks and igniting fires that could be seen nearly 50 miles away.
FORT CHAFFEE, Ark., June 1 Rioting broke out in the Fort Chaffee refugee relocation center this evening as about 200 Cubans, angered by delays in the processing of their cases, pelted the police and soldiers with stones after bursting out the front gate. Between 15 and 20 law enforcement officers, at least one civilian
A 25-year-old Manhattan man was charged with firing three shots early yesterday at Reggie Jackson, the New York Yankees outfielder, after the two men had exchanged angry words on East 83d Street.
CODEX and Genuine Risk will run the Preakness over again today-over and over and over. Several hundred feet above the bend of the Pimlico oval, where first they met, the colt and the filly will stage their stretch run this time on a silver screen of beaded glass crystals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 28, 1980, covering June 2, 1980.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Pink Floyd
Eric Clapton
Lipps Inc.
1980Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American drummer[†]
Fabrizio Moretti also known as Fab, is a Brazilian-American musician and visual artist best known as the drummer for American rock band The Strokes, with whom he has released six studio albums since 2001. A collaborative artist, he has been part of a series of groups since the mid-2000s, most notably the Brazilian-American band Little Joy, which released one album in 2008, and the experimental pop collective Machinegum, which he has led since 2018. Throughout his career, Moretti has worked on a variety of art projects which span the mediums of drawing, sculpture, and installation and performance art.
1980Bobby Simmons, American basketball player[†]
Bobby Simmons is an American former professional basketball player. During his NBA career, Simmons played for five NBA teams between 2001 and 2012. He won the NBA Most Improved Player Award in 2005.
1980Richard Skuse, English rugby player[†]
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1980Abby Wambach, American soccer player and coach[†]
Mary Abigail Wambach is an American retired soccer player, coach, and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach was a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team from 2003 to 2015, earning her first cap in 2001. As a forward, she currently stands as the highest all-time goal scorer for the national team and is second in international goals for both female and male soccer players with 184 goals, behind Canadian Christine Sinclair. Wambach was awarded the 2012 FIFA World Player of the Year, becoming the first American woman to win the award in 10 years. She was included on the 2015 Time 100 list as one of the most influential people in the world.
1980Tomasz Wróblewski, Polish bass player and songwriter[†]
Tomasz Wróblewski, stage name Orion, is a Polish musician, best known as the bassist for the extreme metal band Behemoth. Since 1997, he also is a member of symphonic black metal band Vesania as a lead vocalist and guitarist.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]