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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (died 2024)[†]
Sean Patrick Burroughs was an American professional baseball third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2002 to 2005 and 2011 to 2012 for the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Minnesota Twins. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
1980Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer[†]
Fernando César de Souza is a footballer from Brazil who plays as a defender. He has spent much of his playing career in the Swiss Super League.
1980Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player[†]
Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Yao was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times. During his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m).
1980Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player[†]
Kevin Sinfield is an English rugby union coach, currently the skills and kicking coach for the England national team. He is a former professional rugby league player for Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain. His usual position was loose forward, although he played stand-off and hooker on occasion.
1980Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)[†]
Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vašíček last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He had played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, Nashville Predators and New York Islanders before moving to Russia in 2008 to play for Yaroslavl.
1980The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.[†]
The 43rd government of Turkey was a minority government led by Süleyman Demirel of Justice Party (AP).
SCOTT, Ark., Sept. 11--A devastating drought, increasing daily in its severity, has withered crops in a broad band across much of the eastern half of the United States, bringing heavy losses to some farmers and rising prices for consumers.
LOD, Israel--El Al Israel Airlines, the Government-owned carrier, plagued by management and technical problems that have resulted in a drop in passenger traffic and mounting losses, has embarked on an ambitious program to put the company back on its feet.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (AP)-- Business inventories rose eight-tenths of 1 percent in July, while business sales shot up by a robust 2.9 percent, the Commerce Department reported today.
ANKARA, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 11-- Leaders of the Turkish armed forces seized power here today, ousting the Government of Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, dissolving the Parliament and taking rightist and leftist labor union leaders into custody, the state radio announced.
FRANKFURT, Sept. 11--Adam Opel A.G., owned by the General Motors Corporation, will not pay G.M. a dividend for 1979, and a sales slump threatens to push the West German subsidiary into the red for the first time in postwar history, according to an Opel announcement.
MOSCOW, Sept. 11--The Soviet Union agreed today to increase deliveries of food and manufactured goods to Poland, the Soviet press agency reported.
A retired schoolteacher from Manhattan with a passion for the big-band music of the 1930's and 40's is putting his money where his heart is and hopes to generate some of the excitement of that musical era in midtown, starting tonight.
An attache with the Cuban mission to the United Nations was shot and killed from ambush last night as he drove his car along a busy thoroughfare in Queens.
The project was first proposed in 1974, and it has been so complex that it has taken six years to get it designed, approved and constructed.