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1980 Calendar

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•  February 2, 1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
•  February 16, 1980 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  March 18, 1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
•  March 27, 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
•  April 30, 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
•  July 10, 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
•  August 1, 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
•  September 16, 1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
•  October 25, 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
•  November 28, 1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy’s Day.

•  January 29, 1980 – Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player
•  February 12, 1980 – Sarah Lancaster, American actress
•  February 29, 1980 – Michail Mouroutsos, Greek Olympic taekwondo gold medalist
•  March 24, 1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
•  April 24, 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
•  May 6, 1980 – Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM)
•  June 26, 1980 – Sinik, French singer and rapper
•  August 2, 1980 – Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
•  September 7, 1980 – Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
•  November 18, 1980 – Mathew Baynton, English actor and writer