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

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