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The Chrysler Corporation, which last week reported the largest quarterly deficit ever for an American automobile manufacturer, plans to sell about a 100 parcels of real estate around the country, according to the real estate company that has been retained to market the properties.
PASADENA, Calif. ANY day now, flight controllers at the Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory here will abandon one of their charges, the durable and productive Viking 1, and thus bring to an end the explo ration of Mars, a prime objective of the American space program for two decades.
In appeals to gain black support in their bids for the Presidency, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative John B. Anderson yesterday used different approaches to touch on similar issues in speeches before the 70th conference of the National Urban League in New York City.
LONDON, Aug. 4--With the special exuberance that it reserves for royal occasions, Britain jubilantly celebrated the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 1980, covering August 5, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Billy Joel
Jackson Browne
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
Soundtrack
1980Wayne Bridge, English footballer[†]
Wayne Michael Bridge is an English former professional footballer who played as a left back.
1980Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer[†]
Salvador Cabañas Ortega is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a striker internationally for the senior Paraguay national team, and earlier for the national U17 and U20 teams.
1980Jason Culina, Australian footballer[†]
Jason Culina is a former Australian soccer player and coach. He played in two FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup tournaments for the Australia national football team. At club level, Culina had a nine-year spell in the Netherlands, winning four Eredivisie titles.
1980Jesse Williams, American actor, director, producer, and political activist[†]
Jesse Wesley Williams is an American actor, director, producer, and activist best known as Jackson Avery on Grey's Anatomy. He has also appeared in films such as The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and The Butler (2013). He provided voice acting and motion capture for Markus in the video game Detroit: Become Human (2018).
1980Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (born 1924)[†]
Harold Lowell Runnels was an American businessman and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from New Mexico from 1971 to 1978.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]