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1980 Calendar

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•  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 24, 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
•  April 12, 1980 – Terry Fox begins his “Marathon of Hope” at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
•  May 17, 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
•  June 1, 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
•  July 30, 1980 – Israel’s Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
•  September 18, 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
•  October 17, 1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
•  December 26, 1980 – Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.

•  January 18, 1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
•  April 27, 1980 – Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
•  May 2, 1980 – Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
•  June 1, 1980 – Oliver James, British actor
•  June 26, 1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player
•  July 3, 1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
•  July 23, 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny’s Child)
•  August 7, 1980 – Anomie Belle, American musician
•  October 5, 1980 – James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
•  October 24, 1980 – Christian Vander, German footballer