March 22, 1980

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(idea) by mauler (5.9 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Nov 11 2001 at 0:32:47

On March 22, 1980...

The destroyer USS Deyo (DD 989) was commissioned.
Marj Mitchell, Nancy Kerr, Shirley McKendry and Wendy Leach brought Canada its first Ladies World Curling Championship.
Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" went platinum and their hit single Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 reached the top of the charts.
Ozzy Osbourne began recording his first solo album, Blizzard of Ozz.
The Georgia Guidestones were unveiled near Elberton, GA.
A Guatemalan police official, colonel Máximo Zepeda Martínez, was killed, allegedly by communists. Hours later, the Secret Anticommunist Army (ESA) entered a university campus and kidnapped and killed three members of a socialist student group in revenge.
President Jimmy Carter and his advisors met at Camp David to discuss a possible rescue mission to retrieve US citizens held captive in Iran.
The bodies of Russell Rugh, 15, and Glenn Barker, 14, were found along Ortega Highway in Southern California. They had been killed by William George Bonin, the so-called "Freeway Killer."
Texas pitcher Dave Seiler threw a no-hitter in a 1-0 victory over Southern Methodist.
Howard Witkin, a glass company executive, was shot to death at his Santa Clara townhouse in a murder-for-hire scheme. His ex-wife Judith Barnett and her second husband Robert Singer were later convicted of first degree murder.
In the worst accident in offshore oil drilling history the Alexander Kielland oil rig in Ekofisk field in the North Sea collapsed due a fatigue fracture and capsized, killing 123 people.
mauler was born.

April 17, 1972	Georgia Guidestones	Ted Koppel	December 7, 1941
Camp David	1980	Juan Marichal	UT-Austin
The Wall	February 12, 2000	North Sea	Blizzard of Ozz
curling	All in all, you're just another brick in the wall	Destroyer	Jeff Deyo
12 Bars	Fleet Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy	Anchorman	1599
UK Number One singles of 1980	Mohammed Omar	Southern California	University of Texas

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