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June 23, 1980

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Headlines from June 23, 1980

BEGIN MOVING OFFICE TO EAST JERUSALEM; Move Is Described as Symbolizing City's Unity Under Israeli Rule Move to East Jerusalem Is Approved Negotiations May Be Hampered

By David K. Shipler Special To the New York Times

JERUSALEM, June 22--Prime Minister Menachem Begin has decided to move his office and the Cabinet's conference room from West Jerusalem to East Jerusalem, the largely Arab sector of the city captured by the Israeli Army in the 1967 war, a Government official said today.

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Police Find No Signs Of Bugging at G.O.P.; Police in Washington Find No Evidence That G.O.P. Office Was Bugged Strange Sounds on Phones District Officer Called In Second Request to Police 'Every Right to Be Concerned'

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, June 22--The District of Columbia Police Department said today that its investigators had found no evidence of electronic eavesdropping in the office of Mary Crisp, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, who had expressed suspicions that her office might have been bugged.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 1980, covering June 23, 1980.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Glass Houses by Billy Joel

    Glass Houses

    Billy Joel

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    14
  2. 2
    Album cover for Just One Night by Eric Clapton

    Just One Night

    Eric Clapton

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for McCartney II by Paul McCartney

    McCartney II

    Paul McCartney

    Last week
    16
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Against The Wind by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Against The Wind

    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
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    Album cover for Mouth To Mouth by Lipps Inc.

    Mouth To Mouth

    Lipps Inc.

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    10

Notable Births

Becky Cloonan

1980Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator[†]

Becky Cloonan is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo. In 2012 she became the first female artist to draw the main Batman title for DC Comics.

Melissa Rauch

1980Melissa Rauch, American actress[†]

Melissa Ivy Rauch is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2009 to 2019, for which she was nominated for the Critics Choice Television Award in 2013. From 2004 to 2008, Rauch worked as a regular contributor on the VH1 series Best Week Ever.

Francesca Schiavone

1980Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player[†]

Francesca Schiavone is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had career-high rankings of world No. 4 in women's singles and No. 8 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Schiavone won eight WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2010 French Open, the first Italian woman to win a singles major. To date, Schiavone is the last one-handed backhand player to win a major women's title.

Notable Deaths

Sanjay Gandhi

1980Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (born 1946)[†]

Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi.

Clyfford Still

1980Clyfford Still, American painter and academic (born 1904)[†]

Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who continued to paint in figurative-surrealist styles well into the 1940s.

Historical Context for June 23, 1980

In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]