page_title: May 1980
section_title: May 28, 1980 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1980 / May 28, 1980 (Wednesday)
context_page_description: The first U.S. government shutdown for lack of funding took place as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ceased operations. A total of 1,600 workers were furloughed, and meetings and court dates were canceled. The shutdown ended that evening, with the House approving a $7.6 million extension of funding 284–96, and the Senate 71–10. The shutdown was estimated to cost $700,000, of which $600,000 was for salaries.
  "About that urban renaissance.... there'll be a slight delay", an article by journalist Dan Rottenberg in Chicago magazine, contained the first recorded use of the word "yuppie" to refer to a "young urban professional". Referring to the migration of renters and buyers to Chicago from its suburbs, Rottenberg wrote "Some 20,000 new dwelling units have been built within two miles of the Loop over the past ten years to accommodate the rising tide of “Yuppies"—young urban professionals rebelling against the stodgy suburban lifestyles of their parents."
  Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 818 was hijacked shortly after taking off from Stockton, California for Los Angeles.
context_section_description: For the first time, women graduated as officers from the three major United States service academies, with 61 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 55 from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and 97 from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The top ranking female cadets were Andrea Hollen, 8th in her class of 870 at West Point; Kathleen Conley, 8th from the Air Force Academy class of 887; and Elizabeth Belzer, 30th in the Annapolis class of 938. Jean M. Butler was first in her class at the United States Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.
  Twenty-three workmen for the Canadian Pacific Railway were killed, and 11 injured, in a horrific bus crash near the small village of Webb, Saskatchewan.
  The Nixon White House tapes, tape-recordings made at the Oval Office during the administration of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, were made available for the general public to listen to at the U.S. National Archives. On the first day, the National Archives played 31 historic recordings, 30 of which had been listened to by the Watergate grand jury in 1974.
  Isao Harimoto of the Lotte Orions became the first (and only) Japanese baseball player to have 3,000 hits in his career. Born in Hiroshima to Korean parents five years before the dropping of the atomic bomb, Harimoto had played in the Pacific League since 1959. Harimoto's 3,000th hit, a home run, came in an 11 to 4 win over the visiting Hankyu Braves at Kawasaki. Ichiro Suzuki of Japan surpassed 3,000 hits in U.S. Major League Baseball, after getting 1,278 in Japan's Pacific League.
  The Flag of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador) was approved by the House of Assembly of the province of Newfoundland by a vote of 22 to 10. The geometrical design by Chris Pratt, of "six triangles and an arrow" had been unveiled on April 29 and eliminated any use of the former British flag, the Union Jack, which had been adopted as Newfoundland's official provincial flag in 1952.
  Died: Walter Tobagi, 33, Italian journalist and writer, was killed in a terrorist attack by the Brigade XXVIII March, a left-wing terrorist group.
caption: Newfoundland flag