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Months in 1980: January February March April May June July August September October December
Results 1 - 56 of 56
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
13th - Gabriella Brum, 18, of W 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)
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
24th - Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
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
