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William Behrle 3d, left, and Michael Benson placing contaminated equipment in bags yesterday after leaving the reactor containment building at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown, Pa.
Peter Sellers, the comedian whose zany film roles ranged from a duchess to a wild nuclear expert, died early this morning in Middlesex Hospital in London, a day after he was striken with a massive heart attack. He was 54 years old and had suffered several heart attacks in recent years.
OW I'm really paranoid," said the owner of a cooperative apartment in a Brooklyn brownstone after two detectives from the Crime Prevention Section of the New York City Police Department got through doing a security check on her home.
Faced with preliminary census figures suggesting the possibility of a significant population decline in New York City since 1970, city officials yesterday began a block-by-block review of utility, housing and other records in an effort to show that thousands of New Yorkers had not yet been counted.
NEW DELHI, July 23 The Government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced today a major role for free enterprise in the Indian economy and a "restructuring" of money-losing stateowned industries to bring in efficient management.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 23, 1980, covering July 24, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Eric Clapton
Billy Joel
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
Pete Townshend
1980Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist[†]
Joel Michael Stroetzel is an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.
1980Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (born 1925)[†]
Peter Sellers was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
1980The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.[†]
The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, through the 2016 Olympics, the Australian victory remains the only occasion the United States has not won the event at Olympic level since its inception in 1960. The quartet consisted of backstroker Mark Kerry, breaststroker Peter Evans, butterflyer Mark Tonelli, and freestyler Neil Brooks. The team was nominally led by its oldest member Tonelli, who was 23 and was also a spokesperson for the Australian athletes' campaign for their right to compete at the Olympics against the wishes of the Fraser government. The team was seen as an unlikely prospect to win; all four of the swimmers had clashed with swimming authorities over disciplinary issues and three experienced suspension or expulsion from the Australian team during their careers.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]