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The company that owns Texas International Airlines plans to begin operating shuttle service--perhaps hourly-- between New York and Washington and New York and Boston within a few months in direct competition with Eastern Air Lines, well-placed industry sources reported yesterday.
The traffic in arts and culture between China and the United States, which has recently been assuming almost rush-hour proportions, is bringing to the American Museum of Natural History three shows this weekend by the Fujian Hand Puppets, a troupe from the southern coastal province formerly known as Fukien.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4--The Federal Communications Commission is considered likely next Tuesday to approve a recommendation by its staff that would substantially increase the number of television stations across the country, F.C.C. sources said today.
The National Weather Service confirmed yesterday what many people in the New York metropolitan area had suspected--that this summer was the driest on record, and one of the hottest.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 1980, covering September 5, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Jackson Browne
Soundtrack
Queen
Diana Ross
1980Franco Costanzo, Argentine footballer[†]
Franco Costanzo Geymonat is an Argentine former football goalkeeper who last played for Chilean club Universidad Católica of the Primera División.
1980Kevin Simm, British singer[†]
Kevin Ian Simm is an English singer and songwriter. He was a member of Liberty X (2001–2007) and is the vocalist of Wet Wet Wet. Simm also won The Voice UK in 2016.
1980Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (born 1923)[†]
Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.
1980The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.[†]
The Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland runs from Göschenen in the canton of Uri at its northern portal, to Airolo in Ticino to the south, and is 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) in length below the St Gotthard Pass, a major pass of the Alps. At time of construction, in 1980, it was the longest road tunnel in the world; it is currently the fifth-longest. Although it is a motorway tunnel, part of the A2 from Basel to Chiasso, it consists of only one bidirectional tube with two lanes. With a maximum elevation of 1,175 metres (3,855 ft) at the tunnel's highest point, the A2 motorway has the lowest maximum elevation of any direct north-south road through the Alps.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]