1980

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s?

Years: 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 - 1980 - 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985

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Births

• February 11 - [Matthew Lawrence]?, actor.
• February 11 - [Natasha Bobo]??, actress.

Deaths

• April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, film director
• December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (author)
• Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) [South African]? linguist
• John Winston Lennon - (1940-1980)

Events

• April 30 - Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Summer Olympic Games in Moscow USSR
• War begins between Iran and Iraq
• Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR

Sport

• January 20 - Super Bowl XIV Pittsburgh Steelers (31) def. Los Angeles Rams (19)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [James Watson Cronin]?, [Val Logsdon Fitch]?
• Chemistry - [Paul Berg]?, [Walter Gilbert]?, [Frederick Sanger]?
• Medicine - [Baruj Benacerraf]?, [Jean Dausset]?, [George D Snell]?
• Literature - Czeslaw Milosz
• Peace- [Adolfo perez Esquivel]?
• Economics - [Lawrence Klein]?