How can I find history about 1980?

Question

That was the year I was born and I need to know more information can you help?......

Answer 1

It's the year I was born too! http://www.infoplease.com/year/1980.html

Answer 2

Go to google.com and type in History of 1980

Answer 3

go to www.wikipedia.com and type in 1980. it will tell you all the significant events that happened in 1980, who died, who was born, international conflicts, politics, hollywood, etc.

Answer 4

look up 1980 on the internet. google is my favorite! choose a site you think woul work. and then start reading! have funnn!!!!

Answer 5

Internet is a pretty good start. Try www.history.com.
Also you can try the local library. They usually have old newspapers on films.

Answer 6

use wiki to do research. they kick ***

here's a link for anything you want to know about the year 1980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980

you're in business.. give me 10 points

Answer 7

go to

http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp

put your birthday in and it will tell you everything you want to know about that year

Answer 8

January 1-April 1 - A national steel strike is called in the United Kingdom.
January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Victoria of Sweden Crown Princess over her younger brother.
January 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 6 - The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia.
January 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.
January 11 - Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
January 22 - Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
January 27 - Six American diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland and thereby end the Canadian caper operation.
January 31 - The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is taken down and set on fire, killing 36 people.

February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel are targeting members of the U.S. Congress in a sting operation.
February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
February 13 - The XIII Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
February 15 - In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea.
February 22 - The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.
February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
February 25 - A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron. Leaders Desi Bouterse and Rou Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
February 27 - M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.

March 1 - The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
March 4 - Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
March 18 - Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks.
March 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
March 21 - Mafioso Angelo Bruno is assassinated in Atlantic City.
March 24 - The Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. At his funeral six days later, 42 people are killed amid gunfire and bombs.
March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles, killing 23.
March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
March 27 - The Silver Thursday market crash occurs.

April 1 - The Mariel boatlift from Cuba begins.
April 1 - New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days.
April 2 - The St. Pauls riot breaks out in Bristol.
April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on Sunday, November 4, 1979.
April 10 - Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969.
April 12 - Samuel Doe takes over Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
April 18 - Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
April 19 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the song, What's Another Year.
April 21 - Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon, but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award.
April 24 - Pennsylvania Lottery Scheme: the state lottery is rigged by six men including the host of the live TV drawing, Nick Perry.
April 24-April 25 - Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
April 27 - The Dominican embassy siege ends with all hostages released and the guerrillas flying to Cuba.
April 30 - Iranian Embassy Siege - Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; one terrorist survives.
April 30 - Luis Muñoz Marín, the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at the age of 82.
April 30 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix ascends to the throne.

May 4 - Yugoslav president Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days - the longest-ever time served by an inmate.
May 9 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
May 17 - A Miami, Florida court acquits 4 White police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a Black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots.
May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
May 18 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
May 20 - Referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
May 24 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
May 25 - Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
May 26 - John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
May 26 - In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.

June 1 - Comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
June 3 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing
over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250.

June 3 - U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
June 10 - Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela which says in part 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[1]
June 10 - A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
June 19 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.
June 22 - West Germany beats Belgium 2-1 to win the Euro 80.
June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash.
June 23-September 6 - Heat Wave of 1980
June 25 - A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
June 26 - A DC-9 belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Naples after an explosion occurs in the air - 81 people die - a bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
June 27 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the president of Iceland.

July 9 - Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; seven people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
July 15 - A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes four counties in western Wisconsin, including the city of Eau Claire. It causes over $250m in damage, and one person is killed.
July 16 - Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
July 19 - Former Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim is killed by 2 gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey.
July 19-August 3 - The Summer Olympic Games are held in Moscow, USSR.
July 25 - Popular Australian hard rock band AC/DC releases ultra popular album Back In Black, featuring hits such as Hell's Bells and You Shook Me All Night Long.
July 30 - Vanuatu gains independence.

August 2 - A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
August 7 - August 14 - Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk shipyard.
August 14 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter defeats Senator Edward Kennedy to win renomination, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.
August 17 - In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo.

September 5 - The St. Gothard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
September 12 - Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence which leads to the execution of many young activists.
September 17 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
September 17 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
September 22 - The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War.
September 26 - The Mariel Boatlift officially ends.
September 29 - The Washington Post publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated).
September 30 - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.

October 14 - The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating American railroads.
October 18 - The Fraser Government is re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia with a reduced majority.
October 25 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
October 27 - Six IRA prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December.
October 28 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan debate in Cleveland, Ohio. Reagan's genial, witty performance causes him to overtake Carter in the polls.
October 30 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
October 31 - The Polish government recognizes Solidarity.
October 31 - Mohammad Reza Shah, eldest son of the late shah of Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne.

November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democrat President Jimmy Carter by a wide margin, exactly one year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
November 20 - The trial of the Gang of Four begins in China.
November 21 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada kills 87 people.
November 21 - Millions of viewers tune into the US TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing. The "Who shot J.R.?" event is a national obsession.
November 23 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

December 8 - Former Beatle John Lennon is shot to death outside his New York apartment, by Mark David Chapman.
December 11 - CERCLA is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
December 15 - The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (Academy of the Asturian Language) is created.
December 16 - During a summit on the island of Bali, OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%.
December 26 - Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento," kills himself by overdose on San Quentin prison death row.