Historical Events In 1980
Mar 31 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Mar 07 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
Mar 01 Patti Smith &MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI
Mar 11 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw
Mar 03 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Mar 13 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
Mar 08 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 06 7th Daytime Emmy Awards presentation - Susan Lucci loses for first time
Mar 21 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
Mar 12 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
Mar 24 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
Mar 01 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
Mar 31 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title
Mar 18 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
Mar 14 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy and Andras Sallay (Hungary)
Mar 23 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
Mar 30 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God", premieres in New York NY
Mar 27 TSE Index drops 5.3%, biggest one day loss since 1940; after attempt by Hunt Brothers of Texas to corner silver market and yup I boought silver at $50.00 U.S.
Mar 10 Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show
Mar 20 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
Mar 13 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 13.60)
Mar 07 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
Mar 20 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
Mar 23 France performs nuclear test
Mar 13 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
Mar 27 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)
Mar 31 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title
Mar 05 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
Mar 06 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it first woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
Mar 14 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
Mar 15 Tracey Wainman, age 12, the youngest Canadian skater to compete in a world championship
Mar 24 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
Mar 08 Greg Chappell 235 &Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
Mar 04 Robert Mugabe forms Zimbabwe's first black government
Mar 27 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
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