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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
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaraguan ruler, and two aides are assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunci�n (Sept. 17).
- 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).
U.S. Events
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 Consumer Price Index: 82.4 Unemployment: 7.1% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15
Sports
Super BowlPittsburgh d. La Rams (31-19)World SeriesPhiladelphia Phillies d. Kansas City (4-2)NBA ChampionshipLA Lakers d. Philadelphia 76ers (4-2)Stanley CupNY Islanders d. Philadelphia (4-2)WimbledonWomen: 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 ChampionGenuine RiskNCAA Basketball ChampionshipLouisville d. UCLA (59-54)NCAA Football ChampionsGeorgia (12-0-0)
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 Oscars awarded in 1980 Academy Award, Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer, Stanley R. Jaffe, producer (Columbia) Nobel Prize for Literature: Czeslaw Milosz (US) 1980 Emmy Awards 1980 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1980 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) More Entertainment Awards...
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
Deaths
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