1980's

Today in History for January 1980

9th - 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

10th - Toni Vossen was born this day and Matt Roney, American baseball player birthday

13th - Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

16th - Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession

17th - NASA launches Fltsatcom-3

18th - Gold reaches $1,000 an oz

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

Today in History for February 1980

5th - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel

13th - Apollo Computer Inc incorporated

14th - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

23rd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

27th - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

28th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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

Today in History for  27th March 1980

- Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
- Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
- The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

Today in History for March 1980

1st - Snow falls in Florida

3rd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

3rd - The USS Nautilus is stricken.

5th - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49

8th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

12th - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago

14th - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)

18th - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50

23rd - France performs nuclear test

27th - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
27th - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
27th - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

30th - Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC

Today in History for April 1980

1st - Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1st - France performs nuclear test

3rd - France performs nuclear test
3rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
4th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

7th - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

16th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

23rd - Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
24th - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

26th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

26th - Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy

30th - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London

Today in History for May 1980

2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

5th - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the buildin

9th - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge

11th - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies

14th - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation

16th - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

17th - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured

18th - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket

18th - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die

20th - 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated

22nd - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry

27th - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

Today in History for June 1980

8th - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win

12th - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests

16th - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents

23rd - "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime
23rd - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation

27th - Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
27th - US revives draft registration

Today in History for July 1980

1st -Roy's 18th Birthday

6th - France performs nuclear test

7th - Institution of sharia in Iran.
7th - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.

9th - 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
9th - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
9th - Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound," released

10th - Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time.

13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

16th - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia

16th - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit

18th - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

23rd - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya

25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

31st - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
31st - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Today in History for August 1980

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

4th - -11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean

7th - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 kille

10th - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley

17th - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history

31st - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.

Today in History for September 1980

5th - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens

8th - Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest

13th - 1st United Negro College Fund

17th - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death

18th - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
19th - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)

22nd - Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
22nd - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins

25th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

30th - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
30th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Today in History for October 1980

1st - Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days3rd - 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris

16th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

24th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
24th - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar'