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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 26--Along Dubai Creek they were loading tea for Iran today. Boxes and boxes of tea. There were also sacks of flour, cans of cooking oil, mounds of sugar, washing machines, televisions, stereos and, perhaps most significant of all, spare parts for cars.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 26--Harvard University is considering a plan to take a leading role in founding a genetic engineering company. This would enable the university to profit directly from commercial development of recombinant DNA research, commonly known as gene splicing.
TEHERAN, Iran, Monday, Oct. 27-- The Iranian Parliament went into private session today to resume a debate that was adjourned yesterday on terms for the release of the American hostages, a parliamentary spokesman said.
Alberto Salazar, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Oregon, survived chilly, blustery weather and 14,011 challengers from 49 countries to win the New York City Marathon yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1980, covering October 27, 1980.
Barbra Streisand
Queen
The Doobie Brothers
Diana Ross
Pat Benatar
1980Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist[†]
Sayuri Osuga is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games. Until 2006, she was a member of the professional Sankyoseiki speedskating team. She placed first and third in the Speedskating World Cup. She holds the Japanese records in the 500 m speed skating and the 500 m time trial event. From 2006 to 2011, she was sponsored by the construction company Daiwa House Industries Co. Ltd. She retired in 2011.
1980Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer and songwriter. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999.
1980Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author[†]
Henriett Seth F., also known as Seth F. Henriett, is a Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer, musician, and artist.
1980Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)[†]
Julia Verlyn LaMarsh was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister. Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare. As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967. After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio. She was stricken with pancreatic cancer in 1979 and was given the Order of Canada at her hospital bed. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980.
1980John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)[†]
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]