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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24--The House ethics committee recommended today that Representative Michael J. Myers, Democrat of Pennsylvania, be expelled from Congress for his bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal.
Because of Succoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, alternate-side parking regulations will be suspended throughout New York City today and tomorrow. All other parking and standing rules remain in effect.
WEST POINT, N.Y., Sept. 24--On the echoing parade ground of the United States Military Academy at dusk yesterday, a stooped figure pressing a battered brown fedora to the breast of his rumpled suit stood patiently among the guidons to receive the review of 2,000 massed cadets stepping smartly by under arms.
Beset by shortages of skilled personnel, by slippage in the delivery of new ships, submarines and aircraft, and by a shrinking inventory of weapons, ammunition and spare parts, the United States Navy is stretched very thin.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 24, 1980, covering September 25, 1980.
Queen
Jackson Browne
Diana Ross
The Rolling Stones
The Cars
1980Chris Owen, American actor[†]
Chris Owen is an American actor. He is best known for his supporting role as Chuck "Sherminator" Sherman in the American Pie franchise (1999–2012), appearing in American Pie, American Pie 2, American Pie Presents: Band Camp and American Reunion. Owen has also appeared in multiple National Lampoon films, including starring as the co-lead in National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2003).
1980T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor[†]
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and singer raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He first became acquainted with local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather, and joined his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment by the late 1990s. He was led to sign a major-label record deal with its parent company LaFace Records, an imprint of Arista Records in 1999. His debut studio album, I'm Serious (2001), was met with lukewarm critical and commercial reception, becoming his only release with the label. He then signed with Atlantic Records, where he soon reached his mainstream breakthrough and co-founded his own label imprint, Grand Hustle Records by 2003.
1980John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (born 1948)[†]
John Henry Bonham was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel for groove, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential drummers in history.
1980Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1895)[†]
Lewis Milestone was an American film director. Milestone directed Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960), and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.
1980Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (born 1883)[†]
Marie Under was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 14 separate years.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]