March 22, 1980@Everything2.com

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	Camp David
December 7, 1941	1980	Juan Marichal	North Sea
February 12, 2000	UT-Austin	The Wall	serial killers
Fleet Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy	1599	UK Number One singles of 1980	Jeff Deyo
12 Bars	Mohammed Omar	Tannu Tuva	oil rig
World History Calendar	Blizzard of Ozz	Anchorman	All in all, you're just another brick in the wall

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