Today in History for November 1980

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 55 of 55

1st - USSR performs nuclear test
3rd - Ianford Wilsons "5th of July," premieres in NYC
3rd - Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
4th - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
4th - Libyan invasion in Chad
4th - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
4th - Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires
4th - Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
8th - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
9th - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
9th - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
10th - Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
10th - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
11th - Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
11th - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
12th - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
12th - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
12th - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
13th - US spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 13th - Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
14th - Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
14th - Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World
14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
15th - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
16th - Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
17th - John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
18th - "Heaven's Gate" premieres
18th - Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
18th - Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
19th - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
20th - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
20th - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
20th - UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
21st - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
Model & Actress Brooke Shields 21st - Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
21st - Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
21st - It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
21st - John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
21st - MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die
22nd - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
23rd - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
23rd - 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
23rd - National Black Independent Party forms
25th - Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
25th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
25th - Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI Lahore
25th - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
25th - Upper-Volta milt coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
26th - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
26th - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
27th - Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
30th - "Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances
30th - "Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances
30th - "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs
30th - Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 61 of 61

2nd - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
4th - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
4th - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
4th - Richard Owens, American football player
4th - Marcy Rylan, American actress
5th - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
5th - Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
5th - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
7th - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
7th - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
7th - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
8th - Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
8th - Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
9th - Vanessa Minillo, Filipino television personality
9th - James Harper, English footballer
9th - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
10th - Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet
10th - Troy Bell, American basketball player
10th - Donté Stallworth, American football player
11th - Willie Parker, American football player
12th - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
12th - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
13th - Monique Coleman, American actress
13th - François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian short track speed skater
14th - Margot Contois, Marquette Mich, dance skater (& Robert Peal)
14th - Brock Pierce, American actor
15th - Ace Young, American singer
16th - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
16th - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
16th - Carol Huynh, 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist,48 kg. wrestling
17th - Isaac Hanson, vocalist (Hansons-Do Wah)
17th - [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
17th - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
17th - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
18th - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
18th - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
18th - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
18th - Luke Chadwick, English footballer
19th - Courtney Anderson, American football player
19th - Adele Silva, English actress
20th - James Chambers, English footballer
21st - Danielle Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Steve Hartsell)
21st - Leonardo González, Costa Rican footballer
21st - Hank Blalock, American baseball player
21st - Alec Brownstein, American author, director
21st - Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong Actress
22nd - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
22nd - Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
23rd - David Britz, American nano-technologist
23rd - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
24th - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
25th - Kushan Liyanarachchi, Sri Lankan, prominent Live Buddhism Practitioner
25th - Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
25th - Aaron Mokoena, South African soccer player
26th - Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek California, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
26th - Delilah Cotto, Puerto Rican actress, dancer and model
26th - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
27th - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
28th - Stuart Taylor, British footballer
28th - Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
30th - Jamie Ashdown, English footballer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

24th - Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
27th - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

2nd - Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies
2nd - Willie Sutton, US bank robber, dies at 79
3rd - Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
4th - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
6th - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
7th - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
9th - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
9th - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
12th - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
12th - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
12th - Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
15th - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
16th - Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
18th - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
21st - Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies
22nd - Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
22nd - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
22nd - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
22nd - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
Actress Mae West (22nd) 23rd - Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
23rd - Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
24th - George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace), dies at 85
24th - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
25th - George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
26th - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
27th - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
29th - Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 83