• Home
• Articles
• Dates
• Days
• Today in History
• Topics
• Quiz

Months in Year 1980: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 759

Apr 13th - US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
Apr 14th - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
Apr 14th - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
Apr 14th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
Apr 16th - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
Apr 16th - Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
Apr 16th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 18th - Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
Apr 20th - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
Apr 20th - Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
Apr 20th - Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
Apr 21st - 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11
Apr 21st - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit Mich
Apr 21st - 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Can in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course
Apr 23rd - Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
Apr 24th - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
Apr 25th - A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
Apr 25th - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
Apr 25th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb
Apr 25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 26th - Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
Apr 26th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 26th - Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
Apr 26th - Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
Apr 26th - Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
Apr 27th - Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
Apr 28th - Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
Apr 28th - Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
Apr 29th - Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
Apr 30th - "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
Apr 30th - Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London
Apr 30th - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
Apr 30th - Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
Apr 30th - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
May 1st - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
May 1st - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
May 1st - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
May 1st - Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
May 2nd - Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
May 2nd - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in S Africa
May 2nd - Pope John Paul II begins African tour
May 2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 3rd - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
May 3rd - Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
May 3rd - Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
May 4th - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
May 4th - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
May 4th - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
May 5th - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
May 5th - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.
May 7th - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
May 7th - Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in NYC
May 8th - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
May 8th - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
May 9th - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
May 10th - "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances
May 11th - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
May 11th - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
May 12th - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
May 12th - West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header.
May 13th - Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
May 14th - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
May 14th - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
May 14th - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
May 14th - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
May 15th - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
May 15th - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
May 15th - Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
May 16th - 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
May 16th - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
May 16th - Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
May 16th - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
May 17th - 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
May 17th - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
May 17th - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
May 17th - Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
May 18th - Belgium 3rd govt of Martens forms
May 18th - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
May 18th - Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
May 18th - Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
May 18th - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
May 18th - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
May 19th - "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
May 19th - Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
May 20th - 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
May 20th - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
May 20th - Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
May 20th - In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism
May 21st - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
May 21st - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
May 21st - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
May 22nd - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
May 23rd - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
May 24th - "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
May 24th - Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
May 24th - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2
May 25th - "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
May 25th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 25th - Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
May 26th - Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 789

Mar 28th - Luke Walton, American basketball player
Mar 29th - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
Mar 29th - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
Mar 29th - Amy Mathews, Australian actress
Mar 30th - Liriel Higa, LA Calif, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
Mar 30th - Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
Mar 30th - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
Mar 31st - Jenny Smith, Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
Mar 31st - Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
Mar 31st - Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
Apr 1st - Bryan Buffinton, Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light)
Apr 1st - Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
Apr 1st - Bijou Phillips, American actress
Apr 1st - Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
Apr 2nd - Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer
Apr 2nd - Adam Fleming, English news reporter
Apr 2nd - Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR driver and owner (d. 2004)
Apr 4th - Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
Apr 4th - Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight)
Apr 4th - Trevor Moore, American comedian
Apr 5th - Matt Bonner, American basketball player
Apr 5th - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
Apr 5th - John McLaughlin, American television reporter
Apr 6th - Matthew Thomas Carey, actor (Once You Meet a Stranger)
Apr 8th - Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
Apr 8th - Katee Sackhoff, American actress
Apr 9th - Kristin Lee, Bethesda Md, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
Apr 9th - Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
Apr 9th - Yoanna House, American model
Apr 9th - Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
Apr 10th - Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
Apr 10th - Charlie Hunnam, British actor
Apr 10th - Kasey Kahne, American race-car driver
Apr 10th - Bryce Soderberg, American musician
Apr 11th - Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
Apr 11th - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
Apr 12th - Brian McFadden, Irish Singer
Apr 12th - Erik Mongrain, Canadian musician
Apr 13th - Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
Apr 13th - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
Apr 13th - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
Apr 14th - Ben Wells, American actor
Apr 14th - Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
Apr 15th - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
Apr 15th - Natalie Casey, British actress
Apr 15th - James Foster, English cricketer
Apr 15th - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
Apr 15th - Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
Apr 15th - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
Apr 16th - Jesse Tendler, Madison Wisc, actor (Nick-Ellen Burstyn Show)
Apr 16th - Paul London, American professional wrestler
Apr 17th - Crystal Carlson, Miss Maine Teen USA (1997)
Apr 17th - Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer
Apr 17th - Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
Apr 18th - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
Apr 19th - Alexis Thorpe, American actress
Apr 20th - Jasmin Wagner, German singer
Apr 21st - Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
Apr 21st - Tony Romo, American football player
Apr 21st - Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
Apr 22nd - Aaron Metchnik, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Stephen-Torkelsons)
Apr 22nd - Monica Flammer, Gainesville Fla, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
Apr 22nd - Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
Apr 22nd - Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour
Apr 22nd - Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
Apr 22nd - Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
Apr 24th - Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
Apr 24th - Austin Nichols, American actor
Apr 25th - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
Apr 25th - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
Apr 25th - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player
Apr 26th - Jordana Brewster, Panama, actress (Nikki Graves-As the World Turns)
Apr 26th - Marne Patterson, Sherman Oaks Cal, actress (Nicole-Something So Right)
Apr 26th - Channing Tatum, American actor
Apr 27th - Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
Apr 27th - Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
Apr 27th - Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
Apr 27th - Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
Apr 28th - Josh Howard, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
Apr 29th - Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
Apr 29th - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
Apr 29th - Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
May 1st - Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver
May 1st - Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
May 2nd - Tim Borowski, German footballer
May 2nd - Miloš Glogovac, Serbian footballer
May 2nd - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
May 2nd - Zat Knight, English footballer
May 2nd - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
May 2nd - Brad Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
May 3rd - Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
May 4th - Andrew Raycroft, NHL goalie
May 5th - Bonnie Lynn Gagnon, Miss New Hampshire Teen USA (1997)
May 5th - Yossi Benayoun, Israeli Footballer
May 5th - DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player
May 6th - Brooke Bennett, 800m freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
May 6th - Kasumi Takahashi, Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Oly-96)
May 6th - Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
May 6th - Scott Colton, American professional wrestler
May 6th - Mario Stojić, Croatian basketball player

Famous Deaths

Results 201 - 300 of 320

Aug 9th - Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
Aug 9th - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
Aug 9th - P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies
Aug 9th - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
Aug 11th - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
Aug 14th - Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider
Aug 18th - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
Aug 20th - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
Aug 20th - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
Aug 21st - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
Aug 22nd - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
Aug 22nd - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
Aug 23rd - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
Aug 24th - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
Aug 25th - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
Aug 26th - Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
Aug 26th - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
Aug 26th - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
Aug 27th - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
Aug 27th - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
Sep 2nd - William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70
Sep 3rd - Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
Sep 3rd - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
Sep 3rd - Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
Sep 3rd - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926
Sep 4th - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74
Sep 5th - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
Sep 8th - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
Sep 8th - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
Sep 9th - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
Sep 11th - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80
Sep 12th - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
Sep 15th - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
Sep 17th - Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
Sep 17th - Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
Sep 18th - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
Sep 20th - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
Sep 21st - Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
Sep 25th - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
Sep 25th - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
Sep 25th - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
Sep 25th - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
Oct 1st - George Meany, union pres (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
Oct 2nd - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
Oct 6th - Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56
Oct 6th - Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
Oct 6th - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
Oct 10th - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
Oct 10th - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
Oct 10th - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
Oct 14th - S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India), dies
Oct 15th - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
Oct 15th - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
Oct 16th - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
Oct 21st - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
Oct 24th - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30
Oct 26th - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
Oct 27th - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, dies at 31
Oct 27th - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
Oct 28th - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
Nov 2nd - Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies
Nov 2nd - Willie Sutton, US bank robber, dies at 79
Nov 3rd - Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
Nov 4th - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
Nov 6th - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
Nov 7th - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
Nov 9th - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
Nov 9th - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
Nov 12th - Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
Nov 12th - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
Nov 12th - Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
Nov 15th - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
Nov 16th - Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
Nov 18th - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
Nov 21st - Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies
Nov 22nd - Herbert Wade, cricketer (S African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
Nov 22nd - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
Nov 22nd - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
Nov 22nd - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
Nov 22nd - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
Nov 23rd - Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
Nov 23rd - Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
Nov 24th - George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace), dies at 85
Nov 24th - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
Nov 25th - George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
Nov 26th - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
Nov 27th - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
Nov 29th - Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
Nov 29th - Dorothy Day, American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1897).
Dec 1st - Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
Dec 2nd - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
Dec 3rd - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
Dec 4th - Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
Dec 5th - Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
Dec 7th - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
Dec 8th - John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
Dec 12th - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
Dec 13th - Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
Dec 14th - Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
Dec 16th - Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90