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Top News Stories from 1980
World Events
- Six US embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help (Jan. 29). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
- US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran (April 7).
- Eight US servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran (April 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
- Iraqi troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins (Sept. 19).
- Three US nuns and a lay worker are found shot in El Salvador (Dec. 4).
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaraguan ruler, and two aides are assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunción (Sept. 17).
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
Population: 227,224,681
Life expectancy: 73.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 59.5
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000) 53.5
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Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,784.20 billion
Federal spending: $590.95 billion
Federal debt $909.1 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars): $17,710 billion
Consumer Price Index: $82.4
Unemployment: 7.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15
Sports
Super Bowl
Pittsburgh d. La Rams
World Series
Philadelphia Phillies d. Kansas City
NBA Championship
LA Lakers d. Philadelphia 76ers
Stanley Cup
NY Islanders d. Philadelphia
Wimbledon
Women: Evonne Cawley d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-1 7-6)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. McEnroe (1-6 7-5 6-3 6-7 8-6)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Genuine Risk
NCAA Basketball Championship
Louisville d. UCLA
NCAA Football Champions
Georgia (12-0-0) 1980 Summer Olympics
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
Music: In Memory of a Summer Day, David Del Tredici
Drama: Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson
Academy Award, Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer, Stanley R. Jaffe, producer (Columbia)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Czeslaw Milosz (US)
Record of the Year: "What a Fool Believes," Doobie Brothers
Album of the Year: 52nd Street, Billy Joel (Columbia)
Song of the Year: "What a Fool Believes," Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, songwriters
Miss America: Cheryl Prewitt (MS)
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Events
- John Lennon of the Beatles shot dead in New York City.
- Ted Turner launches CNN, the first all-news network.
- Mark Morris establishes the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York and is widely received as the most promising modern-dance choreographer of his generation.
Movies
- Raging Bull, Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Tess
Books
- William Golding, Rites of Passage
- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert (both US), and Frederick Sanger (UK), for developing methods to map the structure and function of DNA, the substance that controls the activity of the cell
Physics: James W. Cronin and Val L. Fitch (both US), for work concerning the asymmetry of subatomic particles
Physiology or Medicine: Baruj Benacerraf, George D. Snell (both US), and Jean Dausset (France), for discoveries that explain how the structure of cells relates to organ transplants and diseases
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Death
