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ALGIERS, Oct. 10--Two earthquakes struck northwestern Algeria today, destroying most of the city of Al Asnam, official reports said.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10--Voters in Pennsylvania, whose 27 electoral votes make it the third biggest prize in the Presidential election, appear to be having uncommon difficulty making up their minds in 1980, weighing their choices unenthusiastically.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10--Three researchers in immunology, two Americans and a Frenchman, won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine today for discoveries that helped to explain how the structure of cells relates to diseases and organ transplants.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 10--Libya declared its support for Iran today in its war with Iraq as the Iraqis reportedly were moving up tanks and troops for a new bid to end the deadlock in the Khurramshahr area of the southern front.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., Oct. 10--A group of business leaders has concluded that the nation's recession is over but that any recovery will probably be extremely sluggish.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 8, 1980, covering October 11, 1980.
Queen
Diana Ross
George Benson
Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra
The Cars
1980Nyron Nosworthy, English-born Jamaican footballer[†]
Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back. After beginning his career with Gillingham, he moved to Sunderland in 2005 with whom he played in the Premier League. After two lengthy loan spells with Sheffield United he made a permanent switch to Watford in 2012 but was released in the summer of 2014 after a loan to Bristol City. Nosworthy represented Jamaica at international level, playing fourteen games and scoring once.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]