On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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To authors, they appear to be indisputable evidence that the world is against them. To publishers, they are a painless way of unloading books that have run out of steam. And to the public, they are unexpected bargains.
The Carter delegates had their turn to cheer last night, and they offered up a sound of relief as much as exuberance as the President's name was offered for renomination and approved by a convention still caught in the divisive mood of the primary season.
BOSTON QUEEN ANNE, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Federal--the words are almost as familiar today as they were in their original periods.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 9--Since the military under Gen. Luis Garcia Meza Tejada seized power in Bolivia on July 17, hundreds of Bolivians have been arrested and tortured.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13--New technology, increasing Soviet missile strength and a changing American nuclear strategy have revived interest in antiballistic missiles and raised questions about how long the United States will be willing to adhere to the 1972 antimissile treaty with the Soviet Union.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 1980, covering August 14, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Jackson Browne
Billy Joel
Soundtrack
Queen
1980Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia[†]
Peter Bryden Malinauskas is an Australian politician serving as the 47th and current premier of South Australia since 2022. He has been the leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of Croydon since 2018. He was previously the Leader of the Opposition from 2018 until his victory at the 2022 state election.
1980Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (born 1960)[†]
Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, known professionally as Dorothy Stratten, was a Canadian model and actress, primarily known for her appearances as a Playboy Playmate. Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year in 1980, and appeared in three comedy films and in several episodes of television shows broadcast on American networks. Stratten was murdered shortly after co-starring in the movie They All Laughed, at the age of 20, by her estranged husband and manager Paul Snider, whom she was in the process of divorcing and breaking business ties with. Snider committed suicide after he killed Stratten.
1980Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.[†]
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. An electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]