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ORLANDO, Fla., Friday, Aug. 1 (AP) --Stone and bottle throwing erupted here for a third straight night. The police cordoned off a 20-block area last night and said that they would arrest "anybody who's got anything in their hands."
Prices plunged and yields rose in the fixed-income market yesterday amid signs that the Federal Reserve might be tightening its credit policy slightly.
WASHINGTON, July 31--The world's first commercial-size plant to produce liquid fuel directly from coal, widely regarded as the most ambitious international energy project ever undertaken, will be built in West Virginia under an agreement signed today.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 31--In 1870 George Garvin Brown and his halfbrother formed a small distillery here, J.T.S. Brown Brother, whose trademark liquor brands for years were Early Times and Old Forester bourbon whiskies.
IF you want to see some radical painting this weekend and you don't have tickets for the Picasso retrospective, the place to go is the Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, where in a discreet upper gallery you can see 72 examples of botanical drawing as it was practiced in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 1980, covering August 1, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Billy Joel
Jackson Browne
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
Soundtrack
1980Mancini, Brazilian footballer[†]
Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino, more commonly known as Mancini, is a Brazilian football coach and former player.
1980Romain Barras, French decathlete[†]
Romain Barras is a French decathlete. At the Universiade he finished fifth in 2001 and first in 2003, the latter in a personal-best score of 8,196 points. He represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics and came in thirteenth place overall in the decathlon. He became the regional champion at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.
1980Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer[†]
Esteban Efraín Paredes Quintanilla is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1980Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (born 1944)[†]
Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980. Depailler won two Formula One Grands Prix across eight seasons.
1980Strother Martin, American actor (born 1919)[†]
Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.
1980Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.[†]
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be democratically elected president of a country. Having served for 16 years, she was also the longest-serving elected female head of state in history. Vigdís is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and a member of the Club of Madrid.
1980A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland.[†]
The Buttevant Rail Disaster was a train crash that occurred on 1 August 1980 at Buttevant Railway Station, County Cork, in Ireland, 220 kilometres (137 mi) from Dublin on the main line to Cork. More than 70 people were injured, and 18 died, in one of Ireland's worst rail disasters.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]