1980 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1980?
- January 1, 1980 – Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
- February 4, 1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
- February 16, 1980 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- March 10, 1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
- March 14, 1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- April 2, 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
- April 18, 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
- May 13, 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
- May 18, 1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
- June 27, 1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
- July 10, 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- July 30, 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
- August 14, 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- September 1, 1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- September 22, 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
- October 17, 1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
- October 29, 1980 – Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
- October 30, 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- November 20, 1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
- December 4, 1980 – English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.
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