1980
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1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday.
Events
January-February
March
April
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 Liberian 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 - 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!'[1]
- 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 - A plane crashes into the sea near Naples after an explosion occurs in the air - 81 people dead - a bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits will ever be found
- June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the president of Iceland
July-August
September-October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
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, Spanish golfer
- January 11 - Mike Williams, 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, Swedish triple jumper
- February 10 - César Iztúris, baseball player
- February 11 - Natasha Bobo, actress
- February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, actor
- February 12 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
- February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
- February 16 - Ashley Lelie, American football player
- February 20 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French international rugby player
- February 27 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton
- April 1 - Randy Orton, WWE Wrestler
- March 16 - Todd Heap, American football player
- March 18 - Alexei Yagudin, figure skater
- March 21 - Ronaldinho, Brazilian soccer player
- April 17 - Brenda Villa, water polo player
- April 20 - Jasmin Wagner, pop singer
- April 21 - Vincent Lecavalier, NHL 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, German pop singer
- June 16 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- June 17 - Venus Williams, tennis player
- June 19 - Jason White, American football player
- June 22 - Jade Marcela, erotic actress
- June 23 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer
- June 26 - Jason Schwartzman, actor
- June 26 - Michael Vick, football quarterback
July-December
- July 6 - Pau Gasol, Catalan NBA star
- July 7 - Michelle Kwan, figure skater
- July 8 - Robbie Keane, Irish international footballer
- July 10 - Adam Petty, NASCAR driver (d. 2000)
- July 10 - Jessica Simpson, singer
- July 22 - Kate Ryan, Belgian 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, Chinese NBA star
- September 12 - Sean Burroughs, Major League Baseball player
- September 21 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress
- September 29 - Val Debauchee, Sydney, Australia, Chaos abstract artist.
- September 30 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- October 13 - Ashanti, US 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, English footballer
- 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 leader
- January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion designer
- January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian
- January 30 - Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music
- February 7 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
- February 13 - David Janssen, actor
- February 19 - Bon Scott, singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
- February 20 - J.B. 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 Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
- May 18 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer/lyricist with Joy Division (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 and political figure
- June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
- June 23 - Clyfford Still, painter
- July 7 - Dore Schary, stage and motion picture personality
- July 17 - Boris Delaunay, 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, American pilot
- August 10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan
- August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, model (murdered)
- August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actress
- September 16 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
- September 25 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- October 25 - Victor Galindez, boxer (race car accident)
- October 27 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- November 4 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer
- November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
- November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia
- November 21 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- November 22 - Mae West, actress
December
- December 2 - Romain Gary, writer
- December 4 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (died in office).
- December 4 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American 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 President of Germany.
- December 29 - Tim Hardin, musician
- December 31 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor
Unknown dates
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