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There was a time at St. Brigid, a parish elementary school in the East Village, when students ate their lunch in silence. They had to recite catechism every morning with nuns. They were punished if they did not sit erect at their desks with their hands folded.
TOKYO, Sept. 29--In a precedentsetting move, aimed at solving one of Japan's thorniest trade problems with the United States, the Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Public Corporation said today that it was negotiating with the International Business Machines Corporation on a broad range of purchase and technical licensing agreements.
Stressing his commitment to a long roster of liberal causes, Jimmy Carter told a cheering labor audience at a midtown Manhattan hotel yesterday that, when shopping for a President, they should "look for the union label."
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 29--Iran gave no sign today of willingness to accept offers of a cease-fire in the eightday-old war with Iraq, and officials in Teheran vowed to carry on the battle regardless of losses along the border.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 24, 1980, covering September 30, 1980.
Queen
Jackson Browne
Diana Ross
The Rolling Stones
The Cars
1980Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player[†]
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90 weeks, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. Hingis won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 64 doubles titles, including a total of 25 major titles: five in singles, 13 in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. In addition, she won the season-ending Tour Finals two times in singles and three in doubles, an Olympic silver medal in doubles, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.
1980Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player[†]
Milagros Sequera Huss is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player.
1980Toni Trucks, American actress[†]
Toni Trucks is an American actress, best known as Lisa Davis on SEAL Team (2017–2024).
1980Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.[†]
Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3. Ethernet has since been refined to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, and longer link distances, but retains much backward compatibility. Over time, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies such as Token Ring, FDDI and ARCNET.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]