Historical Events for August 1980
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Results 1 - 62 of 62
1st - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
1st - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
1st - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
2nd - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
2nd - US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
3rd - 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
3rd - Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
3rd - Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
4th - -11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
4th - John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
4th - Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
5th - Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
5th - NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
6th - University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
7th - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
8th - LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
9th - Belgian constitution revised
10th - 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
10th - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
10th - Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
11th - Angola revises its constitution
11th - Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
11th - Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
12th - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
13th - Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
13th - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
14th - 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
14th - Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
14th - In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
16th - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
16th - Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
16th - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
17th - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
17th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
17th - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
17th - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
18th - KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
19th - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
19th - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
19th - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
20th - Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
20th - NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
20th - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
20th - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
20th - Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
20th - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
21st - Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
22nd - Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
23rd - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
24th - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
24th - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
25th - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
25th - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
25th - Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
26th - Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
26th - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
27th - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
30th - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
31st - "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
31st - 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
31st - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
31st - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
