On this day
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KEZIA Keeble and Paul Cavaco, a husband-andwife fashion team, have sophisticated tastes and a hectic life. But, with their 3-year-old daughter, Cayli, they live and work in a typical two-bedroom rental apartment on the West Side.
HOUSTON, July 30--After 50 years of operation as an independent oil and gas production company, the Superior Oil Company found itself on the decline in the early 1970's: Production was decreasing, reserves were slipping and exploration was given less importance under a diversification program.
SAN DIEGO--Bumper stickers along the waterfront here proclaim tuna fishermen "the latest endangered species." And from the look of the docks lined with idle tuna boats, it may soon be true.
One-quarter of the American-flag Great Lakes cargo vessels called "lakers" are idle and more than 8,000 sailors and longshoremen are unemployed, mainly because of the slump in the steel and auto industries.
Signs of an improving economy jolted the fixed-income securities market yesterday, sending prices lower and yields higher. Some long-term Government bonds dropped 1 points, or $15 for each $1,000 bond.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 1980, covering July 31, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Billy Joel
Jackson Browne
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
Soundtrack
1980Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish race car driver[†]
Mikko Hirvonen is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers' championship and helped Ford to the manufacturers' title in both 2006 and 2007. In 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 he finished runner-up to Sébastien Loeb. Hirvonen's co-driver was Jarmo Lehtinen from the 2003 season until his retirement in 2014, Lehtinen had replaced Miikka Anttila who co-drove with Hirvonen in the 2002 season.
1980Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Junior Malili "Mils" Muliaina is a former professional rugby union player who most recently played for San Francisco Rush in the US PRO Rugby competition. He played primarily as a fullback, though he has also played as a centre and on the wing.
1980Pascual Jordan, German physicist, author, and academic (born 1902)[†]
Ernst Pascual Jordan was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions. He introduced Jordan algebras in an effort to formalize quantum field theory; the algebras have since found numerous applications within mathematics.
1980Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (born 1924)[†]
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice; his songs varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of the actor lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. In 1967, he was honored with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]