Historical Events In 1980

Jun 13 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"

Jun 15 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game

Jun 28 NYC transit fare rises from 50. to 60.

Jun 18 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline

Jun 18 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin

Jun 03 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination

Jun 03 ESPN begins televising college world series games

Jun 06 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbeldon title

Jun 01 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif

Jun 12 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests

Jun 01 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting

Jun 13 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

Jun 05 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

Jun 22 USSR begins removing troops from Afghanistan

Jun 01 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411

Jun 20 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision

Dec 14 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon

Dec 08 John Lennon assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman

Dec 10 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth

Dec 19 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts

Dec 12 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs

Dec 18 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden

Dec 16 Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state

Dec 24 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds

Dec 29 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A

Dec 02 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador

Dec 31 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18

Dec 30 NBC cancels The Wonderful World of Disney, the longest-running prime time TV show in history. Disney now owns the ABC TV network.

Dec 06 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn

Dec 19 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages

Dec 20 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin

Dec 22 Eisenhower returned to Norfolk, Virginia after a 251-day deployment, the longest underway deployment for a Navy ship since World War II. She had been underway for 152 continuous days

Dec 22 Pres-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) and James Watt (Interior)

Dec 09 61øF in Boston at 1 AM

Dec 01 US Justice Department sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination

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