1980 - January. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer. January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giv ...

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1980 - January. January 3 - Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (murdered) (b. 1910) January 8 - John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907) January 10 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894) January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904) January 29 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893) January 30 - Professor Longhair, Ame ...

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1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH. 1980 - Events. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...

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1980 in aviation - January. January 8 - a Mooney 231 lands in San Francisco, after flying coast to coast non-stop, setting a record by completing the flight in 8 hours and 4 minutes. January 16 - British Island Airways and Air Anglia merge to form Air UK. 1980 in aviation - February. an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18 flies 30,000 km (18,642 miles) from Moscow to the Molod ...

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May May 13 - Antonov An-3 June June 20 - Beechcraft Commuter June 24 - Microturbo Microjet 200 July July 12 - KC-10 Extender July 23 - Aérospatiale Dauphin II August August 11 - Learjet Longhorn 50 August 16 - EMBRAER Tucano August 19 - Boeing Vertol Model 234 September September 26 - Shanghai Y-10 November ...

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Cassandra Harris (December 15, 1948 – December 28, 1991) was an Australian-born actress. Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, she appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and For Your Eyes Only as the ill-fated mistress of Columbo (played by Israeli actor Topol). She guest starred in several episodes of the television series Remington Steele with her husband Pierce Brosnan, to whom she was married from 1980 until her death in Los An ...

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"9 to 5" is the title of a hit song for the 1980 film comedy Nine to Five starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in her film debut. The title song was written and performed by Parton, gaining an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy Award. In addition to appearing on the film soundtrack, the song was the centerpiece of Parton's 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album, released in late 1980. The song was released as a single in December 1980 and reached #1 on both the Billboard Country Chart and the Billboard Hot 100

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1980 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: Philadelphia Phillies over Kansas City Royals (4-2); Mike Schmidt, MVP American League Championship Series: Kansas City Royals (West) over New York Yankees (East) (3-0); Frank White, MVP National League Championship Series: Philadelphia Phillies (East) over Houston Astros (West) (3-2); Manny Trillo, MVP All-Star Game, July 8 at Dodger Stadium: ...

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The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is presented annually in the Swedish Parliament, on December 9, to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today". An international jury decides the award in such fields as environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, peace, etc. The prize money is shared amon ...

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James Robert Shawkey (December 4, 1890 - December 31, 1980) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Yankees from 1913 to 1927. Born in Sigel, Pennsylvania, he won 20 or more games four times for the Yankees. Shawkey also served as the Yankees' manager after the untimely death of Miller Huggins. He served in this capacity for just one season, 1930, when he guided the Yankees to a disappointing third plac ...

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Corey Ian Haim (born December 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor, best known for a 1980's Hollywood career as a teen idol. Haim reached peak popularity in the late 1980s, releasing The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream. His friendship and on-screen collaboration with actor Corey Feldman was widely publicized during the late 1980s, both starring in a number of widely released films and financially success ...

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Chief Minister of Maharashtra - List of chief ministers of Maharashtra. Yashwantrao Chavan (May 1, 1960 - November 19, 1962) Marotrao Kannamwar (November 20,1962 - November 24, 1963) Vasantrao Naik (December 5, 1963 - February 20, 1975) Shankarrao Chavan (February 21, 1975 - May 17, 1977) Vasantdada Patil (May 17, 1977 - July 18, 1978) Sharad Pawar (July 18, 1978 - February 17, 1980) A R Antule (June 9, 1980 - January 12, 1982) Babasaheb Bhosale ...

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Brian Lumley (born December 2, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. Born in County Durham in northeast England, he joined the British Army and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring from the military in 1980 and becoming a professional writer. He added to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories with several works of his own. The most notable of them featured the character Titus Crow. Others of them were pastiches of Lovecrafts's Dream-Cycle and featured the characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. ...

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Sir Bernard Crick (born 16 December 1929) is a British political theorist whose views are often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He seeks to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology. Bernard Crick - Life. During the 1980s, Crick was an advisor to Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party. In 1997, Crick was appointed by his former student, David Blunkett, education secretary for the new UK Labour government, to chair a ...

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Annie Lennox is an Oscar-winning British rock musician and vocalist. She was born December 25, 1954 in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. As a child, Lennox attended a school for the exceptionally intelligent. She was educated as a classical musican and studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. After three years as lead singer of The Tourists, Lennox achieved her greatest fame to date as the alto, soul-tinged lead singer of the 1980s rock duo Eurythmics with British musician David A. Stewart. Early ...

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Superfund is the common name for the United States environmental law that is officially known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 to 9675, which was enacted by the United States Congress on December 11, 1980 in response to the Love Canal disaster. This law created a tax on petroleum and chemical industries and provided broad federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health ...

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The Cash-Landrum Incident is a reported Unidentified Flying Object sighting the witnesses insist was responsible for damage to their health. It might be classified as a Close Encounter of the Second Kind, due to its reported physical effects on the witnesses. About 9:00pm on December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum (Vickie's grandson) were driving one evening near Huffman, Texas when they spotted a large diamond-shaped object apparently hovering over the road. The object ...

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