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1980 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2036. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1980 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1980

• February 16, 1980 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
• February 26, 1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• May 13, 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
• May 18, 1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
• July 15, 1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing $160 million in damage.
• July 19, 1980 – The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were opened in Moscow, Russia.
• July 24, 1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
• September 18, 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
• October 30, 1980 – 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.
• November 12, 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

Who Were Born On 1980?

• February 8, 1980 – Conor O'Brian, American wrestler
• March 14, 1980 – Mercedes McNab, Canadian model and actress
• June 27, 1980 – Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer
• July 8, 1980 – Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• July 12, 1980 – Tom Price, Welsh actor
• August 17, 1980 – Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-Australian drug trafficker (d. 2005)
• September 22, 1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
• October 28, 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer and coach
• November 11, 1980 – Willie Parker, American football player
• November 18, 1980 – Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer