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1980
Front lines in the First Gulf War
Beginning of the First Gulf War between Iraq and Iran
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan wins the presidential election in the United States
Petra Kelly with Otto Schily at a press conference after the federal election in 1983
Otto Schily and Petra Kelly , founding members of the Greens

The year 1980 marked the beginning of the 1980s. Internationally, it was dominated by the hostage-taking of Tehran and the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR , which also intensified the fronts in the East-West conflict after the détente in the 1970s. The USA and several other Western powers boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow . The first Gulf War , which lasted eight years , also began in 1980.

1980 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2733
Armenian calendar 1428-1429
Ethiopian calendar 1972-1973
Badi calendar 136-137
Bengali calendar 1386-1387
Berber calendar 2930
Buddhist calendar 2524
Burmese calendar 1342
Byzantine calendar 7488-7489
Chinese calendar
 - era 4676-4677 or
4616-4617
 - 60 year cycle

Earth sheep (己未, 56) -
metal monkey (庚申, 57)

French
revolutionary calendar
CLXXXVIII - CLXXXIX
188-189
Hebrew calendar 5740-5741
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2036-2037
 - Shaka Samvat 1902-1903
Iranian calendar 1358-1359
Islamic calendar 1400-1401
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 55
 - Kōki 2640
Coptic calendar 1696-1697
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4313
 - Juche era 69
Minguo calendar 69
Modern Olympics XXII
Seleucid calendar 2291-2292
Thai solar calendar 2523

Events

Annual dedications

Politics and world events

January

February

Helmut Schmidt (1977)

March

Coat of arms of St. Lucia

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

economy

science and technology

Culture

Rubik's Cube
Big panda "Bao Bao" in the Berlin Zoological Garden

First award

Openings

Foundations

Publications

society

religion

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Born

January

Bryan Clay
Xavi
Nick Carter

February

Cassandra Steen
Jason Ritter
Jeanette Biedermann

March

Viktoria Winge
Marit Bjørgen
Ronaldinho

April

Damien Abad
Clueso
Channing Tatum

May

Tim Borowski
Steven Gerrard

June

Sibel Kekilli
Sarah Connor

July

Eva Green
Gisele Bündchen
Dirk Kuyt
Jacinda Ardern

August

Vanessa Carlton
Macaulay Culkin

September

David Garrett
Autumn Reeser
TI
Martina Hingis

October

Kim Kardashian
Samaire Armstrong

November

Ryan Gosling
Sido

December

Christina Aguilera
Jake Gyllenhaal

Day unknown

Died

January

Finn Ronne

February

Marian Rejewski

March

April

Alfred Hitchcock († April 29)

May

June

Vasja Pirc
Milburn Stone as Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams in the television series Smoking Colts

July

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi († July 27)

August

Jacqueline Cochran

September

October

Richard Gavin Reid

November

December

John Lennon († December 8)

Day unknown

Nobel Prizes

music

Band foundations

Others

Oscar winner

Web links

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