On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The glittering green and gold lights of the Metropolitan Life Tower at Madison Square and the blue and white dazzle of the Consolidated Edison Building at Union Square--those are relatively new nighttime presences above 150-year-old Gramercy Park.
Crime against New York City's public schoolteachers has become so common that, for many of them, its existence no longer shocks.
PEKING, Monday, Dec. 15--Hua Guofeng appears to have resigned or been forced out of his post as Chairman of the Communist Party in a move that has left many Chinese puzzled about the status of their country's leadership.
Disappointed by the formal offer he received from the Mets yesterday, Dave Winfield was moving swiftly in the Yankees' direction and was said to be prepared to sign a 10-year contract with them as early as today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1980, covering December 15, 1980.
Kenny Rogers
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
1980Élodie Gossuin, French beauty pageant titleholder and model[†]
Élodie Gossuin-Lacherie is a French beauty pageant titleholder, model, radio and television presenter, columnist and regional politician. She was elected Miss Picardy 2000, Miss France 2001, and Miss Europe 2001.
1980Sergio Pizzorno, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Sergio Lorenzo "Serge" Pizzorno is an English musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, and second vocalist of the rock band Kasabian, for whom he became the primary songwriter after the departure of Christopher Karloff in 2006 and the sole vocalist following the firing of Tom Meighan in 2020. He is also a member of Loose Tapestries alongside Noel Fielding and fellow Kasabian member Tim Carter, a group put together to produce music for Fielding's TV series Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.
1980Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player[†]
Manuel Wilhelm is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
1980Peter Gregg, American race car driver (born 1940)[†]
Peter Holden Gregg was an American race car driver during the golden age of the Trans-Am Series and a five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. He was also the owner of Brumos, a Jacksonville, Florida, car dealership and racing team.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]