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The credit markets recovered yesterday, climbing out of the slump they entered Tuesday. Bond prices advanced, new corporate bonds sold rapidly, and some were increased in size. Shortterm interest rates dropped.
ALGIERS, June 11--Kuwait, Venezuela, Iraq and Qatar raised their oil prices today, following the two-day meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates qualified a previous stand against increasing their charges.
Despite a national sales gain in May of only 1.9 percent over May 1979, sales at seven of New York City's largest department stores rose by an average of 7.7 percent in the same period, a monthly spot-check has found. The city's results represent a partial recovery from two prior months of depressed consumer buying.
DETROIT, June 11 The Chrysler Corporation said today that it was "temporarily delaying" payment to suppliers of $150 million in bills due yesterday until it can obtain loans guaranteed by the Federal Government.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 11, 1980, covering June 12, 1980.
Billy Joel
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Eric Clapton
Pink Floyd
Lipps Inc.
1980Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player[†]
Marco Bortolami is a rugby union coach and retired Italian international player, whose career includes experience playing in the national top-level Italian, French, and English championships, before joining the then recently-born Pro14. Praised for his leadership skills, he captained all the teams he played for at professional level. At international level, he also captained the Italian side since 2002 till the 2007 Rugby World Cup, before being replaced in the permanent role by Sergio Parisse. He currently serves as head coach for Sale Sharks in Premiership Rugby.
1980Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (born 1899)[†]
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin was an entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp. Although holiday camps such as Warner's existed in one form or another before Butlin opened his first in 1936, it was Butlin who turned holiday camps into a multimillion-pound industry and an important aspect of British culture.
1980Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (born 1910)[†]
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
1980Milburn Stone, American actor (born 1904)[†]
Hugh Milburn Stone was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" on the Western series Gunsmoke.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]