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TOP SONGS
- "My
Sharona" by The Knack
- "Call Me"
by Blondie
- "What a Fool
Believes" by The Doobie Brothers
- "Hot Stuff"
by Donna Summer
- "After the Love
Has Gone" by Earth, Wind & Fire
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TOP MOVIES
- Being There
- The Empire Strikes
Back
- Blues Brothers
- Raging Bull
- Urban Cowboy
- Alien; Mad Max
- Apocalypse Now
- 10
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ENTERTAINMENT/TV NEWS
- Sony launches the
Walkman
- Dallas' "Who
Shot JR?" episode gets a 53.3 rating
- Willard Scott, who
was the first Ronald McDonald,
starts doing weather for the Today show in March 1980
- Pink Floyd's
"The Wall" hits Number 1
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NEWS
- New mortgage rates
average 13 percent
- Money market accounts
paying 18 percent
- Mother Theresa wins
the Nobel Peace Prize
- Margaret Thatcher
becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- Major nuclear
accident occurs at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
- Ronald Reagan beats
President Jimmy Carter by a landslide
- John Lennon is shot
by Mark David Chapman
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SPORTS
- NHL's greatest scorer
Wayne Gretsky scores his first NHL goal
- First transmission of
CNN
- Moscow hosts the 22nd
Olympic games; US & others boycott
- Bjorn Borg beats John
McEnroe for 1980 Wimbeldon title
- Heavyweight Muhammad
Ali confirms that his third retirement is final
- Indiana
Pacers cut Ann Meyers, first woman on an NBA club
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BIRTHS & DEATHS
- Births: Chelsea
Clinton
- Deaths:
- John Wayne
- Sid Vicious
- Mr Ed, the talking
horse
- Alfred Hitchcock,
British director
- Jean-Paul Sartre,
existentialist
- Mae West, actress
- Peter Sellers, actor
- retired U.S. Supreme
Court Justice
William O. Douglas
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