The January 24, 1980 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 23 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 45 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 24, 2025, 259 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 24, 2026, in 105 days. You have lived for 16,696 days, or about 400,721 hours, or about 24,043,278 minutes, or about 1,442,596,680 seconds.
Date: 25 January 1980
striking drivers ratify 3-year contract; management says paper will be back on stands tomorrow, Jan 25; union negotiating team member Raymond Zarzecki and Journal's attorney Michael H Malin comment (S)
Date: 24 January 1980
Special to The New York Times
5-member Congressional delegation headed by Repr Lester L Wolff ends visit to Taiwan
Date: 25 January 1980
HILTON KRAMER
Hilton KRAMER
Exhibit British Art Now: An American Perspective, organized by Diane Waldman at Guggenheim Museum, reviewed by Hilton Kramer
Date: 24 January 1980
Federal jury, Boston, Mass, acquits Lewis after agreement to dismiss one juror and break 3-day deadlock (S)
Date: 25 January 1980
US House of Representatives votes overwhelmingly to support Pres Carter's request that US press for transfer, cancellation or boycott of Summer Olympics in Moscow unless Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan (M)
Date: 25 January 1980
By JOHN VINOCUR Special to The New York Times
John Special
analysis of problem facing West German Olympic Committee on whether to go along with Pres Carter's proposed boycott of Moscow Olympics to protest Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; says decision by Bonn to boycott games would represent unique development in West German-Soviet relations since improvement in ties between both countries has been watchword and best election argument of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Christian Democratic Party for past decade; Schmidt portrait (M)
Date: 24 January 1980
By FRANK LITSKY
Frank LITSKY
Career sketch; full name is Robert Joseph Kane; illus (M)
Date: 24 January 1980
By HEDRICK SMITH Special to The New York Times
Hedrick Special
news analysis of Carter speech holds warning to USSR echoes that voiced by Pres Truman in '47 amid Soviet threat to Greece and Turkey and by Pres Eisenhower in dealing with instability in Middle East decade later; says speech is dramatic reversal of strategy enunciated by Pres Nixon in '69, that US would not be enticed into regional conflicts but would count on regional powers to lead in protecting themselves and American interests
Date: 25 January 1980
Former Prime Min Smith will run for seat in parliament; is 1 of 28 candidates for 20 seats set aside for whites (S)