This Year in History 1980 E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This Year in History 1980 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths, Weddings, cost of living, Music and Sport, 1980 Fun Facts etc. Everything 1980. UK and USA Facts, Great for Birthday presents or Anniversaries, Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year.

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Kerry Butters

This Year in History 1980

ISBN: 9788834151495

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Table of contents

MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1980

WHO WAS BORN THIS YEAR IN 1980

WHO DIED THIS YEAR IN 1980

FILM AND TV OF 1980

SPORT OF 1980

1980 MUSIC

COST OF LIVING IN 1980

FAMOUS WEDDINGS AND DIVORCES

1980 FUN FACTS

By

Kerry Butters

Table of Contents

MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1980

WHO WAS BORN THIS YEAR IN 1980

WHO DIED THIS YEAR IN 1980

FILM AND TV 1980

SPORT OF 1980

1980 MUSIC

COST OF LIVING IN 1980

FAMOUS WEDDINGS AND DIVORCES

1980 FUN FACTS

MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1980

January

Jan 1 Chrysler UK renamed Talbot

Jan 1 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins

Jan 1 Mob storms Russian embassy in Tehran

Jan 1 Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal

Jan 1 Sweden changes order of succession to throne

Jan 1 Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.

Jan 1 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Barbara Jordan wins her first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats Sharon Walsh 6-3, 6-3

Jan 1 66th Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #1 Ohio State, 17-16

Jan 1 46th Sugar Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #6 Arkansas, 24-9

Jan 1 46th Orange Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #4 Florida State, 24-7

Jan 2 British Steel workers go on a national strike

Jan 2 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas retains title for 4th and last Grand Slam win; beats American John Sadri 7-6, 6-3, 6-2

Jan 3 Gold hits record $634 an ounce

Jan 3 Babrak Karmal defends the Soviet-backed coup in first public appearance since taking power as President of Afghanistan

Jan 6 "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 performances

Jan 6 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

Jan 6 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat

Jan 6 The beginning of the first GPS epoch.

Jan 6 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 27-13

Jan 6 NFC Championship, Tampa Stadium: Los Angeles Rams beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 9-0

Jan 7 Minn ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends

Jan 7 American President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a 1.5 billion dollar loan

Jan 8 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0

Jan 8 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports

Jan 9 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Jan 10 Last broadcast of "The Rockford Files" on NBC

Jan 11 Debut of first The Pretenders album "Pretenders"

Jan 12 Phoenix point guard Mike Bratz begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games during a 107-96 loss at the Golden State Warriors

Jan 12 Björn Borg of Sweden wins his first of 2 season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis titles outclassing American Vitas Gerulaitis 6–2, 6–2 at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Jan 13 "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 performances

Jan 13 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

Jan 13 Togo's constitution becomes effective

Jan 14 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec

Jan 15 Pam Gems' "Piaf!" premieres in London

Jan 16 Paul McCartney is arrested at Tokyo International Airport for possession of marijuana; he is sent to jail for nine days before being deported

Jan 17 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3

Jan 17 A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb prematurely detonates on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three and injuring five (including the bombers)

Jan 18 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

Jan 18 Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" hits #1

Jan 18 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000

Jan 20 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow

Jan 20 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

Jan 20 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

Jan 20 Super Bowl XIV, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Pittsburgh Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19; MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB

Jan 21 Gold hits record $850 an ounce

Jan 21 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal

Jan 22 Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky

Jan 22 PGA begins a senior golf tour

Jan 22 West Indies beat England 2-0 to win cricket's 1st World Series Cup

Jan 25 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran

Jan 25 Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics

Jan 25 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft

Jan 25 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

Jan 26 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro

Jan 26 Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game

Jan 26 Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations

Jan 26 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes

Jan 27 "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 performances

Jan 27 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 37-27; MVP: Chuck Muncie, New Orleans Saints, RB

Jan 27 Robert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after 5 years in exile

Jan 28 37th Golden Globes: "Kramer vs. Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win

Jan 28 USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

Jan 28 New York coach Red Holzman wins his 600th NBA game, only the second (after Red Auerbach) coach at the time to reach the plateau, as the Knicks beat Golden State, 107-103

Jan 29 6 Iranian-held US hostages escape with help of Canadians

Jan 29 Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT

Jan 30 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque" premieres in NYC

Jan 31 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

February

Feb 1 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

Feb 1 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run

Feb 1 "Call Me" single released by Blondie (Billboard Song of the Year 1980)

Feb 2 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors

Feb 2 Mexican boxer Salvador Sánchez dethrones Danny “Little Red” Lopez as WBC world featherweight champion with a 13th-round TKO in Phoenix, AZ; Lopez champion since November 1976, 8th defence

Feb 3 Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

Feb 3 Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

Feb 3 30th NBA All-Star Game, Capital Centre, Landover, Md: East beats West, 144-136 (OT); MVP: George Gervin, San Antonio Spurs, SF

Feb 4 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran

Feb 4 Studio 54 holds its grand closing party on its last night in business

Feb 5 32nd NHL All-Star Game, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-3; MVP: Reggie Leach, Philadelphia Flyers, RW

Feb 5 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel

Feb 6 John Wayne Gacy goes on trial for the murder of 33 young men in Cook County, Illinois

Feb 9 Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8 3-pointers in a game

Feb 10 Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly" premieres in NYC

Feb 12 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances

Feb 12 NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets

Feb 12 Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117

Feb 13 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated

Feb 13 NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

Feb 13 XIII Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York

Feb 14 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances

Feb 14 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

Feb 14 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins first of 3 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out 30k event; also wins relay and 50k gold

Feb 15 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 500m in Olympic record 38.03s; first of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid

Feb 15 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals

Feb 15 East German speed skater Karin Enke wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals with victory in the 500m at Lake Placid Winter; wins 1,000m & 1,500m in Sarajevo (1984)

Feb 15 Soviet cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina claims her 3rd of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 5k event at Lake Placid; also wins 10k and relay gold (Innsbruck 1976) and relay (Albertville 1992)

Feb 16 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France

Feb 16 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 5,000m in Olympic record 7:02.29; second of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid

Feb 17 22nd Daytona 500: Buddy Baker wins ahead of Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett

Feb 17 Sapporo downhill silver medallist Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria goes one better with gold at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics

Feb 17 Swedish cross-country skier Thomas Wassberg earns first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 15k at Lake Placid; wins by 0.01s from Finland's Juha Mieto; closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing

Feb 18 Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)

Feb 18 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian elections

Feb 18 30th Berlin International Film Festival: "Heartland" and "Palermo or Wolfsburg" win the Golden Bear (tie)

Feb 18 Soviet figure skater Irina Rodnina wins her 3rd consecutive Olympic pairs title at Lake Placid; gold medals with husband Alexander Zaitsev (1976, 80) and Alexei Ulanov (1972)

Feb 18 East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins first of 2 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in women's 10k; also takes gold as part of 4 x 5k relay team

Feb 19 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay

Feb 19 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,000m in Olympic record 1:15.18; third of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid

Feb 19 Washington beats Montreal, 3-1 to end the Canadiens' 34 game unbeaten streak against Capitals; Caps 0-32-2 against Montreal since entering NHL in 1974

Feb 19 Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark wins the giant slalom from Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; also takes slalom gold

Feb 19 Ulrich Wehling of East Germany wins his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the Nordic combined event at Lake Placid; winner Sapporo (1972), Innsbruck (1976)

Feb 20 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 30k and 50k gold

Feb 20 Soviet 2-time world champion team Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov win the Olympic ice dance gold medal at Lake Placid by just 0.96 from Krisztina Regőczy & András Sallay of Hungary

Feb 21 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,500m in Olympic record 1:55.44; 4th of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid

Feb 21 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olympic gold, for the giant slalom

Feb 21 Liechtenstein becomes the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion as Hanni Wenzel wins the women's giant slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Games

Feb 21 East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the women's 4 x 5k relay team; also wins 10k gold

Feb 21 British figure skater Robin Cousins wins men's singles gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; goes on to pro career, TV analysis and stage performance & production

Feb 22 Afghanistan declares martial law

Feb 22 "Miracle on Ice": US ice hockey team beats heavily favoured Soviet Union, 4-3 at Lake Placid in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history; Americans go on to win gold medal

Feb 22 Swedish World Cup and World champion Ingemar Stenmark wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, taking out the slalom; follows-on from giant slalom success

Feb 22 Aleksandr Tikhonov of the Soviet Union earns his 4th straight gold medal as part of the 4 x 7.5k biathlon relay team at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics

Feb 22 Soviet biathlete Anatoly Alyabyev wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 7.5k relay team; also wins individual gold

Feb 23 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins Olympic 10,000m in world record 14:28.13; sweeps all 5 speed skating events at Lake Placid; only athlete to win 5 gold medals at one Winter Games

Feb 23 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

Feb 23 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 3rd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out the 50k event; also wins 30k and relay gold

Feb 24 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances

Feb 24 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders

Feb 24 XIII Winter Olympic Games close in Lake Placid, New York

Feb 24 US ice hockey team clinches gold medal with 4-2 win over Finland at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; comes after 4-3 "Miracle on Ice" victory against hot favorite Soviet Union

Feb 25 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

Feb 25 British political comedy "Yes Minister" written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds premieres on BBC Two

Feb 26 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time

Feb 26 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

Feb 26 Richard Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft

Feb 27 22nd Grammy Awards: "What a Fool Believes" best song, Billy Joel best album

Feb 27 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors

Feb 27 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

Feb 28 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)

Feb 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 29 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals

Feb 29 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England

March

Mar 1 Commonwealth Trade Union Council established

Mar 1 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit

Mar 1 Snow falls in Florida