SALVADOR'S CIVILIAN CHIEF
Date: 19 December 1980
Special to the New York Times

Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. Neil became the tallest living British-born man and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) and among the 25 tallest men in the world.
This title has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.
Přečtěte si více...18. prosince 1980 bylo čtvrtek pod hvězdičkou ♐. Byl 352 den v roce. Prezidentem Spojených států byl Jimmy Carter.
Pokud jste se narodili v tento den, je vám 45 let. Vaše poslední narozeniny byly čtvrtek 18. prosince 2025 před 166 dny. Vaše další narozeniny jsou pátek 18. prosince 2026, za 198 dní. Žili jste 16 602 dní nebo přibližně 398 458 hodin nebo přibližně 23 907 494 minut nebo přibližně 1 434 449 640 sekund.
Date: 18 December 1980
Special to The New York Times
Wish to protect privacy of individual has led 24 states in past 2 years to pass laws that restrict access by public and news organizations to official records of arrests, indictments, trials, acquittals, convictions and sentences; such restrictions are now in effect, in 1 form or another, in 47 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with only Dakotas and Vermont having no prohibitions of any kind; some FBI officials have complained that newly enacted privacy laws are hampering their law-enforcement efforts; twin issues of personal privacy and access to records have even served to pit groups championing press freedom against those pushing for greater civil freedom; ACLU's monitoring of case in which Government is being sued in effort to have FBI rap sheets made public noted; suit was filed 2 years ago by Reporters Committee for Press Freedom and Robert Scnakne, CBS News correspondent (M)
Date: 19 December 1980
Israeli TV reports that Iran has executed Simon Farzami, Iranian-Jew who was editor of Teheran Journal, English-language paper, on charges of espionage for US (S)
Date: 18 December 1980
By JAMES FERON Special to The New York Times
James Special
school names Charles McKinley Saltzman 2d as headmaster to replace Harris (S)
Date: 18 December 1980
NYS Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal by NY Daily News and NY Times of court decision barring them from pretrial hearing involving 2 alleged gun runners, Frank Terpil and George Korkala; unanimously denies permission to newspapers to appeal decision by Justice Thomas Galligan to close doors of his courtroom to press and public (S)