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DETROIT, Dec. 25--In a move that is drawing protests from dealers, the General Motors Corporation has reportedly decided to limit the Cadillac version of its new subcompact "J" car to a small minority of its outlets when the model is introduced next spring.
THE city's jazz scene is staying close to the middle of the road in the final weekend of 1980--nothing very far out, nothing very far back.
TEHERAN, Iran, Dec. 25-American hostages attended makeshift Christmas services here today for the second year, with any hopes that they might have had for release anytime soon apparently dashed again.
Major changes in fire-safety requirements for thousands of apartment buildings, hotels and department stores in New York City are being considered by top officials of the Fire and Buildings Departments.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1980, covering December 26, 1980.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
AC/DC
Pat Benatar
1980Todd Dunivant, American soccer player[†]
Todd Dunivant is an American former soccer player who played 13 years in Major League Soccer winning 5 MLS Cup trophies. After retirement he spearheaded the San Francisco Deltas professional soccer team as the Director of Soccer Operations and Business Development —winning the NASL Championship in its expansion season. He currently serves as the general manager of Sacramento Republic FC.
1980Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer[†]
Ceylan Ertem is a Turkish singer-songwriter.
1980Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (born 1912)[†]
Anthony Peter Smith was an American sculptor, painter, architectural designer, and a noted art theorist. As a leading sculptor in the 1960s and 1970s, Smith is often associated with the Minimalist art movement.
1980Richard Chase, American cannibalistic serial killer and necrophile (born 1950)[†]
Richard Trenton Chase was an American serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in Sacramento, California, from December 1977 to January 1978. He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.
1980Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".[†]
The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in December 1980, which became linked with UFO landings. The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force (USAF). USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt, claimed to see things they described as a UFO.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]