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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Ledley King, English footballer[†]
Ledley Brenton King is an English former professional footballer. A one-club man, he spent his entire career with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and played 323 competitive matches for them from 1999 to 2012. He is currently a club ambassador for Tottenham Hotspur.
1980Ann Wauters, Belgian basketball player[†]
Ann Hilde Willy Wauters is a Belgian former professional basketball player and coach, most recently serving as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played for numerous American and European professional teams, including the Cleveland Rockers, US Valenciennes Olympic, and the San Antonio Silver Stars. She won four EuroLeague championships and one WNBA Finals during her career. Her primary position was center.
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ST. LOUIS WHEN he was born, on June 16, 1937, August A. Busch 3d imbibed a drop of Budweiser beer. It was the first beverage to touch his lips. This, the first of many rites of passage toward control of the family brewery, was the touch of a celebrated promoter, August A. Busch Jr.
MOSCOW, Oct. 11--Two Soviet astronauts, Leonid I. Popov and Valery V. Ryumin, returned to earth today after setting a record of 185 days in space flight aboard the orbiting station Salyut 6.
The loft apartment--once a first choice for do-it-yourselfers and a last resort for artists --has become a full-fledged segment of the housing industry in New York City.
HOUSTON, Oct. 11--In a four-hour game spiced with disputed plays, the Philadelphia Phillies rallied twice today to defeat the Houston Astros, 5-3, in 10 innings and deadlock the playoff for the National League pennant at 2-2. The deciding game is here tomorrow night.
"No game today," Rick Cerone announced, but he kept swinging his bat anyway, with no danger of injuring anybody in the nearly empty clubhouse.
BROOKHAVEN SIGNALING the heavy real-estate tax burden on the Island and the possible chaos of statewide reassessment, Brookhaven Town has been swamped with protests over real-estate assessments.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 11 --Rutgers was supposed to be another patsy for Alabama, the powerful Southeastern Conference team that had come North for a picnic at Giants Stadium today.
To connoisseurs of mountains, the most spectacular segment of the Rockies is not in the United States but in the Canadian province of Alberta. The pride of Americans may be hurt by the discovery that they do not own the choicest section of the great Cordillera, but those who suppress their chagrin long enough to visit Canada's Banff ...
AFTER a long summer marked by breakdowns, shortages and overcrowding on Conrail commuter trains, there is sharp disagreement among the railroad's labor and management representatives over just why the system is having difficulties in maintaining its sophisticated new equipment.
WASHINGTON THE thousands of New Jersey ans attending college in the state and elsewhere, and their parents, have received a pre Christmas gift of sorts from the Federal Government.
GHENT, N.Y.--The cow barns-- long, squat buildings made of thin corrugated steel--are rusting on Morris Levy's 1,200-acre farm. The milking machines stand useless in the dark and dank milking parlor. The dairy cattle are gone.