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WIMBLEDON, England, July 4-- Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the Wimbledon women's tennis championship today, nine years after her first title.
MIAMI BEACH, July 9--President Carter, returning to some of the tough language he used earlier this year to describe the Iran crisis, told a "town meeting" in California today that the existence of "fanatics" and "terrorists" in the Iranian Government continued to hamper the release of the American hostages.
Officials of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority say they believe that the new tax on oil companies' profits and increases in the transit fare will not hold subway, bus and rail fares in New York at present levels for very long.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 4--The home of a member of the United States Embassy staff was fired on early today, two days after he was publicly described as the chief of station of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No one was injured by the gunmen, who used automatic weapons.
WASHINGTON, July 4--An earlymorning haze enveloped the Capitol dome today as young people, carrying beach blankets, plastic picnic coolers, knapsacks and radios, trooped along the Mall, past the turrets of the Smithsonian Institution's castle-like structure to stake out positions for concerts and for fireworks.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 2, 1980, covering July 5, 1980.
Billy Joel
Eric Clapton
Paul McCartney
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
1980Pauly D, American television personality[†]
Paul Michael DelVecchio Jr., known as Pauly D and DJ Pauly D, is an American television personality and DJ. He is best known for being a cast member of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.
1980David Rozehnal, Czech footballer[†]
David Rozehnal is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played for a host of European clubs, making over 400 appearances in a career spanning almost two decades, and retired from the professional game in April 2018. Internationally Rozehnal made 60 appearances for the Czech Republic, appearing in three major tournaments: Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2008.
1980Mads Tolling, Danish-American violinist and composer[†]
Mads Tolling is a Danish-American violinist, violist, composer and two-time Grammy Award-Winner.
1980Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).[†]
Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks. Borg won 66 singles titles during his career, including eleven majors: six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon. Borg was ATP Player of the Year from 1976 to 1980, the year-end No. 1 in the ATP rankings in 1979 and 1980, and the ITF World Champion from 1978 to 1980.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]