25 Years Ago

 It's February 1980. The Olympic Flame passes through Albany on its way to the 13th Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.

 Walter Cronkite, 63, says he will step down as CBS anchor when his contract ends in November 1981.

 President Carter is in favor of registering women for the draft 

 The Olympic Games open in Lake Placid.

 Actor David Janssen, 49, dies of a heart attack at his home in Malibu. He was best known for his starring roles in The Fugitive and Harry-O.

 At the Olympic Games, athletes from Taiwan leave the games when they are not allowed to participate under the name and flag of their country.

 US figure skater Randy Gardner, 21, pulls a groin muscle, and he and his partner, Tai Babilonia, are forced to withdraw from the Olympics, dashing their dreams of winning a gold medal. The US hopes are now on skaters Kitty and Peter Carruthers.

 Storms on the West Coast bring floods, mud slides and power failures, and cause 24 deaths in Los Angeles.

 Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96,  daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, dies.

 At the Olympics, the US Hockey Team beats the Soviet Union and Finland and wins the Gold Medal. The unexpected victory causes patriotic celebrations all over the country.

 US Speed Skater Eric Heiden sets a record by winning five Gold Medals at the Olympics.

 Gold Medals in Figure Skating go to Annet Potzsch of Germany and Robin Cousins of Great Britain. US figure skater Linda Fratianne, 19, wins the Silver Medal. Charlie Tickner wins the Bronze Medal. The Carruthers finish 5th in the pairs.

 The US wins 12 Olympic medals: six gold, four silver, and two bronze.

 Winners of the New Hampshire Primaries are President Carter and Ronald Reagan.

 Royal Watchers have their eyes on Anna Wallace, 25, and wonder if she is the new girl in 31-year-old Prince Charles' life.

 In Columbia, the US Ambassador and 44 others are taken hostage by leftist guerillas who demand the release of more than 300 political prisoners and $50 million. 

 At the 22nd Grammy Awards, What a Fool Believes is chosen as record and song of the year. Dionne Warwick is chosen Best Pop Female Artist, and Billy Joel is chosen Best Pop Male Artist. You Decorated My Life is chosen Best Country Song.

 Endicott Johnson is going to hire 200 new workers to make industrial rubber boots. The new jobs will pay $4.00 an hour.

 The Nichols Hotel is destroyed by fire. The three-story building is believed to be about 100-years-old.

 The Importance of Being Earnest opens at the Cider Mill Playhouse. Tickets cost $5.00.

 A Broome County Transit bus hits two vehicles and a light pole, and  crashes into a gift shop in downtown Binghamton. Damages to the store could reach $100,000.

 At SUNY-Binghamton, students stage an anti-draft march. They express their refusal to fight wars to protect oil companies by chanting "Hell, no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco!" 

 Philip Scimone, 47, a teacher at the Apalachin Middle School, is killed in a car accident in Newark Valley.

 Best selling books include Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz, The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsythe, Smiley's People by John LeCarre, and The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. 

 Movies playing at local theaters include Cruising with Al Pacino, Fatso with Dom DeLuise, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Prize Fighter, The Fog, Hero atLarge starring John Ritter, American Gigolo, ChapterTwo, The Last Married Couple inAmerica, Jaws 2, and 10.

 If you want your hair styled like Bo Derek in "10," it will cost you $80 at a local salon, and take about 10 hours to accomplish. 

 Girl Scout cookies cost $1.50 a box, and a 10-ounce bag of conversation hearts candy costs 49 cents. Happy Valentine's Day.