
1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1977 1978 1979 - 1980(MCMLXXX) - 1981 1982 1983 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * January 1-April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom * January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother * January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims, with support of the European Commission, a grain embargo against the USSR. * January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer * January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation. * January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979 * January 11 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master. * January 22 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow * January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomacy * january 27 - Merchant banker Frank Nugan found dead in his car at Bowenfels near Lithgow NSW (Aus) * February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel were targeting members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation. * February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran * February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. ===March=== * March 1 - ''Voyager 1'' probe confirms that Janus (moon) (moon of Saturn (planet)) exists * March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. * March 4 - Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe * March 10 - Jean Harris shoots doctor Herman Tarnower, the inventor of the Scarsdale diet * March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others * March 18 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia 50 persons were killed at an explosion of a Vostok rocket rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. * March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks * March 21 - President of the United States Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow * 24 March - Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow despite objections by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser * March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador * March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles down - 23 dead * March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander_Kielland_(Platform) collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. ===April=== * April 1 - The Mariel Boatlift begins. * April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979 * April 10 - Spain and United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969 * April 18 - Zimbabwe's formal independence from United Kingdom. Robert Mugabe takes his post as a Prime Minister * April 21 - Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award * April 24-April 25 - Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation * April 30 **Iranian Embassy Siege – 6 Iranian-born terrorists take over Iranian embassy in London, UK. Special Air Service attacks May 5 – one terrorist survives **Luis Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at the age of 82. **Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix ascends to the throne. ===May-June=== * May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days - the longest-ever time served by an inmate * May 9 - In Florida, a Liberia freighter named the ''Summit Venture'' hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed * May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage * May 18 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. * May 20 - 1980_Quebec_referendum in Quebec where the population rejects by a vote of 60% the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. * May 24 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. embassy hostages in Tehran. * June 1 - Comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine. * June 3 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250. * June 10 - Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela which says in part 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/64-90/anvil.html] * June 19 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers were killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling. * June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash * June 25 – Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them * June 26 - The fascist NAR group places a bomb on a plane that crashes into the sea near Naples - 81 people dead * June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the president of Iceland ===July-August=== * July 15 - A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes four counties in western Wisconsin, including the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It caused over $250m in damage, and one person was killed. * July 19 - Former prime minister of Turkey Nihat Erim is killed by two gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey. * July 19 — August 3 - Summer Olympic Games in Moscow Soviet Union * July 30 - Vanuatu gains independence * August 2 - Armed Revolutionary Nuclei fascists group plants a bomb in a waiting room at Bologna railway station in Northern Italy - 84 dead * August 14 - Lech Walesa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdansk Gdansk Shipyard * August 17 - In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlin disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo ===September-October=== * September 5 - The St. Gothard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo. * September 12 - Military coup in Turkey lead by Kenan Evren. It stopped political violence among gangs, but was the beginning of stronger state violence which lead to the execution of many young activists. * September 17 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. * September 17 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Paraguay * September 22 - The command council of Iraq ordered its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War. * September 26 - The Mariel Boatlift officially ends. * September 29 - ''Washington Post'' publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated) * October 18 - Malcolm Fraser Government re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia * October 27 - Six Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze (HM Prison) refuse food and demand status as political prisoners - hunger strike lasts until December * October 30 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. ===November=== * November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: United States Republican Party challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent United States Democrat Party Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. * November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe ''Voyager I'' makes its closest approach to Saturn (planet) when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth * November 20 - The trial of the Gang of Four begins in China. * November 21 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada kills 87 people. * November 23 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people. ===December=== * December 8 - John Lennon is shot outside his New York apartment, by Mark Chapman. * December 16 - During a summit on the island of Bali, the OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%. ===Unknown dates=== * The Staggers Rail Act is passed deregulating American railroads. * Lawrence Klein is awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. * Hassan Fathy and Plenty International / Stephen Gaskin are awarded the Right Livelihood Award. * Victoria, Australia, Australia, decriminilizes homosexual acts between consenting adults. == Year in topic == * 1980 in film **May 21 - ''The Empire Strikes Back'' **November 14 - ''Raging Bull'' starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese **''Caddyshack'' **''Coal Miner's Daughter'' **''Ordinary People'' **''The Blues Brothers'' **''The Elephant Man'' **''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' * 1980 in literature **''A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole **''The Name of the Rose'' by Umberto Eco * 1980 in music **December 8 - Former The Beatles John Lennon is shot and killed in front of his residence in New York City * 1980 in sports ** July 19 - Leonid Brezhnev opens the Olympic Games in Moscow. * 1980 in television **February 14 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the ''CBS Evening News''. ** June 1 - The Cable News Network, CNN, is launched as the first 24 hour a day news network. **October 24 - Australia's multicultural television network Special_Broadcasting_Service begins transmission in Sydney and Melbourne **December 30 - After 25 consecutive years, the longest-running prime-time television series ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' is cancelled by NBC. **SCART plug is made mandatory on all televisions sold in France. * 1980 in video gaming and computing ** August 25 - Microsoft announces their version of Unix, Xenix **Nippon Electric Corporation creates the first successful digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710. == Births == ===January-June=== * January 1 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model * January 2 - Michelle Clack, British model * January 2 - Rebekah Teasdale, British model and journalist * January 7 - Gabriela Bazan * January 9 - Sergio García, Spain golfer * January 11 - Mike Williams (football player), American football player * January 14 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player * January 16 - Albert Pujols, baseball player * January 16 - Michelle Wild, erotic actress * January 22 - Christopher Masterson, actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'') * January 25 - Christian Olsson, Sweden triple jumper * February 10 - César Iztúris, baseball player * February 11 - Natasha Bobo, actress * February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, actor * February 12 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain tennis player * February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress * February 16 - Ashley Lelie, American football player * February 20 - Imanol Harinordoquy, France national rugby union team rugby union player * February 27 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President of the United States Bill Clinton * April 1 - Randy Orton, WWE Wrestler * March 16 - Todd Heap, American football player * March 18 - Alexei Yagudin, figure skating * March 21 - Ronaldinho, Brazilian soccer player * April 17 - Brenda Villa, water polo player * April 20 - Jasmin Wagner, pop singer * April 21 - Vincent Lecavalier, National Hockey League ice hockey player * May 9 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer * May 30- Steven Gerrard, English soccer player, Liverpool FC and England * June 1 - Oliver James, British actor * June 13 - Sarah Connor (musician), Germany pop singer * June 16 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer * June 17 - Venus Williams, tennis player * June 22 - Jade Marcela, erotic actress * June 23 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer * June 26 - Jason Schwartzman, actor * June 26 - Michael Vick, American football quarterback ===July-December=== * July 6 - Pau Gasol, Catalonia NBA star * July 7 - Michelle Kwan, figure skating * July 8 - Robbie Keane, Republic of Ireland national football team football (soccer)er * July 10 - Adam Petty, NASCAR driver (d. 2000) * July 10 - Jessica Simpson, singer * July 22 - Kate Ryan, Belgium singer * August 11 - Lee Suggs, American football player * August 26 - Macaulay Culkin, actor * August 28 - Debra Lafave, teacher * August 29 - David Desrosiers, musician (Simple Plan) * September 7 - Mark Prior, baseball pitcher * September 12 - Yao Ming, People's Republic of China NBA star * September 12 - Sean Burroughs, MLB player * September 21 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress * September 30 - Martina Hingis, Switzerland tennis player * October 13 - Ashanti (artist), United States pop music artist * October 14 - Terrence McGee, American football player * October 16 - Sue Bird, WNBA basketball star * October 28 - Alan Smith, English Soccer Player, Manchester United * November 12 - Ryan Gosling, actor * November 17 - Isaac Hanson, musician * November 21 - Hank Blalock, baseball player * December 7 - John Terry, England football (soccer) * December 10 - Alexa Rae, erotic actress * December 18 - Christina Aguilera, pop singer * December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (''The Day After Tomorrow'') * December 19 - Marla Sokoloff, actress (''Full House'', ''The Practice'') * December 30 - Eliza Dushku, actress (''Tru Calling'') ===Birthday Fictional Character=== * Harry Potter, fictional character, protagonist in J. K. Rowling's bestselling series of the same name, was born on July 31, 1980. ==Deaths== ===January-May=== * January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of ''Born Free'' (killed by a servant in northern Kenya). * January 8 - John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer * January 10 - George Meany, labor union leader * January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion designer * January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudeville * January 30 - Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans, Louisiana music * February 7 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer * February 13 - David Janssen, actor * February 19 - Bon Scott, singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946) * February 20 - Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (b. 1895) * March 5 - Jay Silverheels, American actor * March 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, painter * March 25 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) * March 29 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905) * March 31 - Jesse Owens, American athlete * April 4 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer * April 12 - Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player * April 24 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904) * April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899) * May 4 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) * May 18 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer/lyricist with Joy Division (band) (b. July 15, 1956) * May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician (b. 1895) ===June-November=== * June 7 - Henry Miller, writer * June 12 - Milburn Stone, actor * June 13 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure * June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter * June 23 - Clyfford Still, painter * July 7 - Dore Schary, stage/motion picture personality * July 17 - Boris Delaunay, Soviet Union/Russian mathematician * July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor * July 26 - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, b. 1927. * July 27 - Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran * August 7 - Jackie Cochran, United States aviatrix * August 10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan * August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, Playboy playmate (murdered) * August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actor * September 16 - Jean Piaget, Swiss developmental psychologist (b. 1896) * September 25 - John Bonham, British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (b. May 31, 1948) * October 25 - Victor Galindez, boxing light heavyweight world champion, in car race accident. * November 4 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes" * November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor * November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia * November 22 - Mae West, actress ===December=== * December 2 - Romain Gary, writer * December 4 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, List of Prime Ministers of Portugal of Portugal (died in office). * December 4 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Poland-United States sprinter * December 8 - John Lennon, British musician, singer/songwriter, guitarist with The Beatles (b. October 9, 1940) * December 16 - Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (born 1890) * December 16 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor * December 24 - Karl Dönitz, former Reichspräsident. * December 29 - Tim Hardin, musician * December 31 - Marshall McLuhan, Canada author and professor ===Unknown dates=== * Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics - James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell * Nobel Prize in Literature - Czeslaw Milosz * Nobel Peace Prize- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel ==Templeton Prize== * Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 1980 la:1980 simple:1980 th:พ.ศ. 2523
== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:52, 7 May 2004 (UTC) == Benjamin Lee == I am removing the line in the Births section for Benjamin Lee (who is described as merely "unique"). This was added with the comment "updated birthday catalogue to include myself ?You will see!" However, Benjamin Lee is about a Hawai'ian politician, who, judging from the photograph, is not 24 years old.--User:Clipdude 07:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1977 1978 1979 - 1980(MCMLXXX) - 1981 1982 1983 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * January 1-April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom * January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother * January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims, with support of the European Commission, a grain embargo against the USSR. * January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer * January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation. * January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979 * January 11 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master. * January 22 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow * January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomacy * january 27 - Merchant banker Frank Nugan found dead in his car at Bowenfels near Lithgow NSW (Aus) * February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel were targeting members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation. * February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran * February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. ===March=== * March 1 - ''Voyager 1'' probe confirms that Janus (moon) (moon of Saturn (planet)) exists * March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. * March 4 - Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe * March 10 - Jean Harris shoots doctor Herman Tarnower, the inventor of the Scarsdale diet * March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others * March 18 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia 50 persons were killed at an explosion of a Vostok rocket rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. * March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks * March 21 - President of the United States Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow * 24 March - Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow despite objections by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser * March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador * March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles down - 23 dead * March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander_Kielland_(Platform) collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. ===April=== * April 1 - The Mariel Boatlift begins. * April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979 * April 10 - Spain and United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969 * April 18 - Zimbabwe's formal independence from United Kingdom. Robert Mugabe takes his post as a Prime Minister * April 21 - Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award * April 24-April 25 - Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation * April 30 **Iranian Embassy Siege – 6 Iranian-born terrorists take over Iranian embassy in London, UK. Special Air Service attacks May 5 – one terrorist survives **Luis Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at the age of 82. **Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix ascends to the throne. ===May-June=== * May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days - the longest-ever time served by an inmate * May 9 - In Florida, a Liberia freighter named the ''Summit Venture'' hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed * May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage * May 18 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. * May 20 - 1980_Quebec_referendum in Quebec where the population rejects by a vote of 60% the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. * May 24 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. embassy hostages in Tehran. * June 1 - Comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine. * June 3 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250. * June 10 - Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela which says in part 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/64-90/anvil.html] * June 19 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers were killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling. * June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash * June 25 – Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them * June 26 - The fascist NAR group places a bomb on a plane that crashes into the sea near Naples - 81 people dead * June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the president of Iceland ===July-August=== * July 15 - A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes four counties in western Wisconsin, including the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It caused over $250m in damage, and one person was killed. * July 19 - Former prime minister of Turkey Nihat Erim is killed by two gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey. * July 19 — August 3 - Summer Olympic Games in Moscow Soviet Union * July 30 - Vanuatu gains independence * August 2 - Armed Revolutionary Nuclei fascists group plants a bomb in a waiting room at Bologna railway station in Northern Italy - 84 dead * August 14 - Lech Walesa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdansk Gdansk Shipyard * August 17 - In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlin disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo ===September-October=== * September 5 - The St. Gothard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo. * September 12 - Military coup in Turkey lead by Kenan Evren. It stopped political violence among gangs, but was the beginning of stronger state violence which lead to the execution of many young activists. * September 17 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. * September 17 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Paraguay * September 22 - The command council of Iraq ordered its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War. * September 26 - The Mariel Boatlift officially ends. * September 29 - ''Washington Post'' publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated) * October 18 - Malcolm Fraser Government re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia * October 27 - Six Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze (HM Prison) refuse food and demand status as political prisoners - hunger strike lasts until December * October 30 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. ===November=== * November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: United States Republican Party challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent United States Democrat Party Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. * November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe ''Voyager I'' makes its closest approach to Saturn (planet) when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth * November 20 - The trial of the Gang of Four begins in China. * November 21 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada kills 87 people. * November 23 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people. ===December=== * December 8 - John Lennon is shot outside his New York apartment, by Mark Chapman. * December 16 - During a summit on the island of Bali, the OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%. ===Unknown dates=== * The Staggers Rail Act is passed deregulating American railroads. * Lawrence Klein is awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. * Hassan Fathy and Plenty International / Stephen Gaskin are awarded the Right Livelihood Award. * Victoria, Australia, Australia, decriminilizes homosexual acts between consenting adults. == Year in topic == * 1980 in film **May 21 - ''The Empire Strikes Back'' **November 14 - ''Raging Bull'' starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese **''Caddyshack'' **''Coal Miner's Daughter'' **''Ordinary People'' **''The Blues Brothers'' **''The Elephant Man'' **''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' * 1980 in literature **''A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole **''The Name of the Rose'' by Umberto Eco * 1980 in music **December 8 - Former The Beatles John Lennon is shot and killed in front of his residence in New York City * 1980 in sports ** July 19 - Leonid Brezhnev opens the Olympic Games in Moscow. * 1980 in television **February 14 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the ''CBS Evening News''. ** June 1 - The Cable News Network, CNN, is launched as the first 24 hour a day news network. **October 24 - Australia's multicultural television network Special_Broadcasting_Service begins transmission in Sydney and Melbourne **December 30 - After 25 consecutive years, the longest-running prime-time television series ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' is cancelled by NBC. **SCART plug is made mandatory on all televisions sold in France. * 1980 in video gaming and computing ** August 25 - Microsoft announces their version of Unix, Xenix **Nippon Electric Corporation creates the first successful digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710. == Births == ===January-June=== * January 1 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model * January 2 - Michelle Clack, British model * January 2 - Rebekah Teasdale, British model and journalist * January 7 - Gabriela Bazan * January 9 - Sergio García, Spain golfer * January 11 - Mike Williams (football player), American football player * January 14 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player * January 16 - Albert Pujols, baseball player * January 16 - Michelle Wild, erotic actress * January 22 - Christopher Masterson, actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'') * January 25 - Christian Olsson, Sweden triple jumper * February 10 - César Iztúris, baseball player * February 11 - Natasha Bobo, actress * February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, actor * February 12 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain tennis player * February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress * February 16 - Ashley Lelie, American football player * February 20 - Imanol Harinordoquy, France national rugby union team rugby union player * February 27 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President of the United States Bill Clinton * April 1 - Randy Orton, WWE Wrestler * March 16 - Todd Heap, American football player * March 18 - Alexei Yagudin, figure skating * March 21 - Ronaldinho, Brazilian soccer player * April 17 - Brenda Villa, water polo player * April 20 - Jasmin Wagner, pop singer * April 21 - Vincent Lecavalier, National Hockey League ice hockey player * May 9 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer * May 30- Steven Gerrard, English soccer player, Liverpool FC and England * June 1 - Oliver James, British actor * June 13 - Sarah Connor (musician), Germany pop singer * June 16 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer * June 17 - Venus Williams, tennis player * June 22 - Jade Marcela, erotic actress * June 23 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer * June 26 - Jason Schwartzman, actor * June 26 - Michael Vick, American football quarterback ===July-December=== * July 6 - Pau Gasol, Catalonia NBA star * July 7 - Michelle Kwan, figure skating * July 8 - Robbie Keane, Republic of Ireland national football team football (soccer)er * July 10 - Adam Petty, NASCAR driver (d. 2000) * July 10 - Jessica Simpson, singer * July 22 - Kate Ryan, Belgium singer * August 11 - Lee Suggs, American football player * August 26 - Macaulay Culkin, actor * August 28 - Debra Lafave, teacher * August 29 - David Desrosiers, musician (Simple Plan) * September 7 - Mark Prior, baseball pitcher * September 12 - Yao Ming, People's Republic of China NBA star * September 12 - Sean Burroughs, MLB player * September 21 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress * September 30 - Martina Hingis, Switzerland tennis player * October 13 - Ashanti (artist), United States pop music artist * October 14 - Terrence McGee, American football player * October 16 - Sue Bird, WNBA basketball star * October 28 - Alan Smith, English Soccer Player, Manchester United * November 12 - Ryan Gosling, actor * November 17 - Isaac Hanson, musician * November 21 - Hank Blalock, baseball player * December 7 - John Terry, England football (soccer) * December 10 - Alexa Rae, erotic actress * December 18 - Christina Aguilera, pop singer * December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (''The Day After Tomorrow'') * December 19 - Marla Sokoloff, actress (''Full House'', ''The Practice'') * December 30 - Eliza Dushku, actress (''Tru Calling'') ===Birthday Fictional Character=== * Harry Potter, fictional character, protagonist in J. K. Rowling's bestselling series of the same name, was born on July 31, 1980. ==Deaths== ===January-May=== * January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of ''Born Free'' (killed by a servant in northern Kenya). * January 8 - John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer * January 10 - George Meany, labor union leader * January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion designer * January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudeville * January 30 - Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans, Louisiana music * February 7 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer * February 13 - David Janssen, actor * February 19 - Bon Scott, singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946) * February 20 - Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (b. 1895) * March 5 - Jay Silverheels, American actor * March 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, painter * March 25 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) * March 29 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905) * March 31 - Jesse Owens, American athlete * April 4 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer * April 12 - Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player * April 24 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904) * April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899) * May 4 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) * May 18 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer/lyricist with Joy Division (band) (b. July 15, 1956) * May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician (b. 1895) ===June-November=== * June 7 - Henry Miller, writer * June 12 - Milburn Stone, actor * June 13 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure * June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter * June 23 - Clyfford Still, painter * July 7 - Dore Schary, stage/motion picture personality * July 17 - Boris Delaunay, Soviet Union/Russian mathematician * July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor * July 26 - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, b. 1927. * July 27 - Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran * August 7 - Jackie Cochran, United States aviatrix * August 10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan * August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, Playboy playmate (murdered) * August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actor * September 16 - Jean Piaget, Swiss developmental psychologist (b. 1896) * September 25 - John Bonham, British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (b. May 31, 1948) * October 25 - Victor Galindez, boxing light heavyweight world champion, in car race accident. * November 4 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes" * November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor * November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia * November 22 - Mae West, actress ===December=== * December 2 - Romain Gary, writer * December 4 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, List of Prime Ministers of Portugal of Portugal (died in office). * December 4 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Poland-United States sprinter * December 8 - John Lennon, British musician, singer/songwriter, guitarist with The Beatles (b. October 9, 1940) * December 16 - Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (born 1890) * December 16 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor * December 24 - Karl Dönitz, former Reichspräsident. * December 29 - Tim Hardin, musician * December 31 - Marshall McLuhan, Canada author and professor ===Unknown dates=== * Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics - James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell * Nobel Prize in Literature - Czeslaw Milosz * Nobel Peace Prize- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel ==Templeton Prize== * Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 1980 la:1980 simple:1980 th:พ.ศ. 2523
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== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:52, 7 May 2004 (UTC) == Benjamin Lee == I am removing the line in the Births section for Benjamin Lee (who is described as merely "unique"). This was added with the comment "updated birthday catalogue to include myself ?You will see!" However, Benjamin Lee is about a Hawai'ian politician, who, judging from the photograph, is not 24 years old.--User:Clipdude 07:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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