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

Historical Events

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Aug 26th - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
Aug 27th - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
Aug 30th - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
Aug 31st - "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
Aug 31st - 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
Aug 31st - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
Aug 31st - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
Sep 1st - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
Sep 1st - Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
Sep 1st - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Sep 1st - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Sep 2nd - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
Sep 4th - Yes performs its last concert (MSG)
Sep 5th - Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
Sep 5th - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
Sep 6th - 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
Sep 6th - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
Sep 6th - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
Sep 6th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
Sep 6th - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
Sep 6th - Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
Sep 7th - 100th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64)
Sep 7th - 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
Sep 7th - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes
Sep 7th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf
Sep 7th - Cape Verde adopts its constitution
Sep 7th - Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
Sep 7th - Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
Sep 7th - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic
Sep 7th - John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title
Sep 8th - Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
Sep 10th - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
Sep 10th - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
Sep 11th - Chile adopts its constitution
Sep 11th - Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
Sep 12th - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
Sep 13th - 1st United Negro College Fund
Sep 14th - "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs
Sep 14th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
Sep 14th - Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
Sep 15th - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
Sep 17th - "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
Sep 17th - Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria
Sep 17th - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
Sep 17th - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
Sep 17th - Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
Sep 18th - "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
Sep 18th - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
Sep 18th - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
Sep 19th - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
Sep 20th - Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
Sep 20th - George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
Sep 20th - Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
Sep 20th - Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
Sep 21st - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
Sep 21st - LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception
Sep 21st - Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
Sep 21st - Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
Sep 22nd - Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
Sep 22nd - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
Sep 22nd - John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records
Sep 23rd - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
Sep 24th - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
Sep 24th - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
Sep 25th - Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
Sep 25th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Sep 25th - Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
Sep 25th - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
Sep 26th - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
Sep 26th - Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
Sep 26th - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
Sep 27th - WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
Sep 27th - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
Sep 28th - "Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs
Sep 28th - Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
Sep 28th - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing
Sep 28th - Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
Sep 29th - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
Sep 30th - 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
Sep 30th - A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100
Sep 30th - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Sep 30th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Sep 30th - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Oct 1st - Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
Oct 2nd - Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Oct 2nd - Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
Oct 3rd - 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
Oct 4th - Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies
Oct 5th - Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx
Oct 5th - Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
Oct 5th - Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
Oct 6th - Guyana adopts constitution
Oct 6th - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
Oct 7th - Belgium 3rd govt of Martens resigns
Oct 8th - Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
Oct 8th - British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
Oct 8th - USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
Oct 8th - USSR performs nuclear test
Oct 9th - 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)

Famous Birthdays

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Aug 11th - Lee Suggs, American football player
Aug 12th - Maggie Lawson, American actress
Aug 12th - Matt Thiessen, Canadian/American musician (Relient K)
Aug 12th - Dominique Swain, American actress
Aug 12th - Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
Aug 14th - Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer
Aug 14th - Roy Williams, American football player
Aug 15th - Nathalie Press, English actress
Aug 16th - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
Aug 16th - Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
Aug 17th - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
Aug 17th - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
Aug 17th - Shannon Lucio, American actress
Aug 17th - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
Aug 18th - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
Aug 18th - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
Aug 18th - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
Aug 18th - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
Aug 18th - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
Aug 19th - Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
Aug 19th - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
Aug 19th - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
Aug 19th - Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
Aug 20th - Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
Aug 20th - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
Aug 21st - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
Aug 21st - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
Aug 22nd - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
Aug 22nd - Christi Shake, American model and actress
Aug 22nd - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
Aug 23rd - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
Aug 23rd - Rex Grossman, American football player
Aug 24th - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
Aug 25th - Neal Musser, American baseball player
Aug 26th - Macaulay Culkin, NYC, actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich)
Aug 26th - Brendan Harris, American baseball player
Aug 26th - Chris Pine, American actor
Aug 27th - Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
Aug 27th - Kyle Lowder, American actor
Aug 28th - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
Aug 29th - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
Aug 29th - Chris Simms, American football player
Aug 29th - David West, American basketball player
Aug 29th - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
Aug 29th - Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
Aug 31st - Joe Budden, American rapper
Sep 1st - Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
Sep 1st - Chris Riggott, English footballer
Sep 2nd - Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA (1997)
Sep 2nd - Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
Sep 2nd - Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
Sep 3rd - The B.G., American rapper
Sep 3rd - Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
Sep 3rd - Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
Sep 3rd - Jennie Finch, American softball player
Sep 4th - Hitomi Shimatani, Japanese singer
Sep 4th - Pat Neshek, American baseball player
Sep 5th - Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
Sep 6th - Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
Sep 6th - Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
Sep 6th - Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
Sep 6th - Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
Sep 7th - Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
Sep 7th - Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
Sep 7th - Mark Prior, American baseball player
Sep 7th - Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
Sep 8th - Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer
Sep 9th - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
Sep 9th - Michelle Williams, American actress
Sep 10th - Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ)
Sep 11th - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver
Sep 11th - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
Sep 12th - Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer
Sep 12th - Gus G., Greek guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil)
Sep 12th - Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
Sep 12th - Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player
Sep 12th - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
Sep 13th - Ben Savage, actor (Little Monsters, Wild Palms)
Sep 13th - Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
Sep 13th - Han Chae Young, South Korean actress
Sep 13th - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
Sep 13th - Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
Sep 13th - Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)
Sep 15th - David Diehl, American football player
Sep 15th - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
Sep 15th - Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
Sep 16th - Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
Sep 17th - Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler (born as Dolgorsuren Dagvador)
Sep 17th - Danny Haren, American baseball player
Sep 18th - Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
Sep 18th - Charles Hedger - British musician (Cradle of Filth)
Sep 18th - Chris Tarrant, Australian football player
Sep 19th - Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Sep 19th - Tegan Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Sep 20th - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
Sep 20th - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
Sep 20th - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
Sep 21st - Raegan Tomaster, East Patgchogue NY, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
Sep 21st - Robert Hoffman, American actor
Sep 21st - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress

Famous Deaths

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