Page 9: Historical Events In 1980
Saturday, 06 June 2026
Jun 01 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif. 


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


Jun 01 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting 


Jun 01 [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90. 


Jun 03 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 


Jun 03 ESPN begins televising college world series games. 


Jun 03 In this year, Jimmy Carter claims enough delegates for renomination 


Jun 05 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70 


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


Jun 06 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbeldon title. 


Jun 07 Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88 


Jun 09 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers severe burns in a drug mishap and is hospitalized for two months 


Jun 09 Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier and Adrian), dies at 73 


Jun 09 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth. 


Jun 10 Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies 


Jun 11 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2531 Cambridge. 


Jun 12 Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75. 


Jun 12 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests. 


Jun 13 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall". 


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


Jun 14 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi and #3160 Angerhofer. 


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


Jun 17 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson. 


Jun 18 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi premiers. 


Jun 18 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin 


Jun 18 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline. 


Jun 18 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec 


Jun 20 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68. 


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


Jun 22 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours. 


Jun 22 USSR begins removing troops from Afghanistan 


Jun 23 John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83. 


Jun 27 Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31. 


Jun 28 Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79 


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