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November 9, 1980

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Historical Context for November 9, 1980

In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 1980, covering November 9, 1980.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The River by Bruce Springsteen

    The River

    Bruce Springsteen

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for Guilty by Barbra Streisand

    Guilty

    Barbra Streisand

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for One Step Closer by The Doobie Brothers

    One Step Closer

    The Doobie Brothers

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Game by Queen

    The Game

    Queen

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  5. 5
    Album cover for Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits by Kenny Rogers

    Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits

    Kenny Rogers

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    4
  6. 6
    Album cover for Crimes Of Passion by Pat Benatar

    Crimes Of Passion

    Pat Benatar

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    12
  7. 7
    Album cover for Diana by Diana Ross

    Diana

    Diana Ross

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    37
  8. 8
    Album cover for Paris by Supertramp

    Paris

    Supertramp

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    8
    Weeks
    5
  9. 9
    Album cover for Back In Black by AC/DC

    Back In Black

    AC/DC

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    9
    Weeks
    12
  10. 10
    Album cover for Triumph by The Jacksons

    Triumph

    The Jacksons

    Last week
    12
    Peak
    10
    Weeks
    4

Notable Births

Vanessa Lachey

1980Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress[†]

Vanessa Joy Lachey is an American television host, model and actress. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and hosted Total Request Live on MTV. She has starred in two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead role in the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons.

1980Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder[†]

Dominique Maltais is a Canadian snowboarder, specialising in snowboard cross. She is a two-time Olympic medallist, winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Torino Games and a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Games. She also competed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, where she failed to reach the final. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships, she won a bronze medal in 2011 and a silver medal in 2013. She is the 2012 Winter X Games champion, and has won the Crystal Globe as the overall FIS World Cup champion in snowboard cross five times, in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

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Headlines from November 9, 1980

Made in U.S.A.--With Foreign Parts; First came the world car, to sell anywhere. Now there's the world component. Made in the U.S.A.-- With Foreign Parts AUTO PARTS FROM BRAZIL

By Edwin McDowelle.M

A DODGE dealer in Mount Kisco, N.Y., offers an unusual optional extra. A bumper sticker that proclaims, "This vehicle built in America by Americans for Americans." On a similar nationalistic note, the United Auto Workers union is advertising in newspapers and on radio for Americans to buy American cars. And at least 12 states have adopted regulations requiring state agencies to do just that.

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Cairo After Camp David

By Jan Morris

FOR any participant, however peripheral, in the miserable tangle of the Arab-Israeli conflict, so repetitive, so threadbare, so infinitely sad, so apparently insoluble, an eyewitness account of life in Egypt by an ...

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Georgia Tech In 3-3 Deadlock; Notre Dame, Georgia Tech Tie

By Gordon S. White Jr. Special To the New York Times

ATLANTA, Nov. 8--Georgia Tech. despite having its worst season in 46 years, had one of the biggest days in its 89 years of football today when it ended Notre Dame's chances for a perfect season by achieving a 3-3 tie with the undefeated Irish.

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