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JOHANNESBURG, June 16 The police opened fire today in racially segregated areas around Johannesburg and Bloemfontein to disperse unruly crowds gathering on the anniversary of the Soweto upheaval of 1976.
WASHINGTON, June 16 The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether a company accused of conspiring to violate the antitrust laws could force other members of the alleged conspiracy to share the cost of an unfavorable verdict.
Last Friday, Dava Sobel, a science reporter from The New York Times, entered the human chronophysiology laboratory of Montefiore Hospital to begin 25 days as a research subject. She is cut off from the outside world. Only the doctors and technicians in the laboratory can see her.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 11, 1980, covering June 17, 1980.
Billy Joel
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Eric Clapton
Pink Floyd
Lipps Inc.
1980Elisa Rigaudo, Italian race walker[†]
Elisa Rigaudo is an Italian race walker from Cuneo.
1980Jeph Jacques, American author and illustrator[†]
Jeffrey Paul "Jeph" Jacques is an American-Canadian cartoonist who writes and draws the webcomic Questionable Content. Jacques has formerly created the webcomics indietits, Derelict Orbital Reflector Devices and Alice Grove.
1980Venus Williams, American tennis player[†]
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American inactive tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA for 11 weeks, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for eight weeks. Williams has won 49 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including seven majors, as well as an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She has also won 22 doubles titles, including 14 majors and three Olympic gold medals.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]