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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 2, 1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• February 16, 1980 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
• February 22, 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
• June 3, 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
• July 29, 1980 – Iran adopts a new “holy” flag after the Islamic Revolution.
• August 25, 1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
• September 30, 1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 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 21, 1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
• November 23, 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.

Who Were Born On 1980?

• March 2, 1980 – Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
• July 26, 1980 – Robert Gallery, American football player
• July 27, 1980 – Dolph Ziggler, American wrestler and actor
• September 21, 1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver
• September 29, 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
• October 11, 1980 – Matthew Felker, American model and actor
• November 4, 1980 – Marcy Rylan, American actress
• December 17, 1980 – Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower
• December 23, 1980 – Elvin Ng, Singaporean actor