Notable Historical Events - 1980
1980 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63) |
Jan 1 |
Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship |
Jan 1 |
Chrysler UK renamed Talbot |
Jan 1 |
International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins |
Jan 1 |
Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran |
Jan 1 |
Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal |
Jan 1 |
Sweden changes order of succession to throne |
Jan 1 |
Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden. |
Jan 2 |
68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) |
Jan 3 |
Gold hits record $634 an ounce |
Jan 6 |
"1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs |
Jan 6 |
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India |
Jan 6 |
Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat |
Jan 6 |
The beginning of the first GPS epoch. |
Jan 7 |
Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends |
Jan 8 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 |
Jan 8 |
NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports |
Jan 9 |
63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
Jan 10 |
Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC |
Jan 10 |
Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL |
Jan 11 |
Debut of Pretenders |
Jan 12 |
Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
Jan 13 |
"King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 perfs |
Jan 13 |
Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium |
Jan 13 |
Togo's constitution becomes effective |
Jan 14 |
Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec |
Jan 15 |
Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London |
Jan 16 |
Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession |
Jan 17 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-3 |
Jan 17 |
Dunmurry train explosion: a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb prematurely detonates on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three and injuring five (including the bombers) |
Jan 18 |
Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce |
Jan 18 |
Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 |
Jan 18 |
Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000 |
Jan 20 |
President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow |
Jan 20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
Jan 20 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
Jan 20 |
Super Bowl XIV: Pittsburgh Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena, MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB |
Jan 21 |
Gold hits record $850 an ounce |
Jan 21 |
Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal |
Jan 22 |
Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky |
Jan 22 |
PGA begins a senior golf tour |
Jan 22 |
West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup |
Jan 25 |
Bani Sadr elected president of Iran |
Jan 25 |
Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics |
Jan 25 |
Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft |
Jan 25 |
Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported |
Jan 26 |
175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro |
Jan 26 |
Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game |
Jan 26 |
Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations |
Jan 26 |
Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes |
Jan 27 |
"Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs |
Jan 27 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27 |
Jan 28 |
37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field wins |
Jan 28 |
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. |
Jan 28 |
US President Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls originally scheduled to expire in September 1981 |
Jan 29 |
6 Iranian-held US hostages escape with help of Canadians |
Jan 29 |
Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT |
Jan 30 |
Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC |
Jan 31 |
Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 |
Feb 1 |
Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System |
Feb 1 |
Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run |
Feb 2 |
FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors |
Feb 3 |
30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington |
Feb 3 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 3 |
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy |
Feb 4 |
Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran |
Feb 4 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
Feb 5 |
32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit |
Feb 5 |
Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
Feb 9 |
Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8 3-pointers in a game |
Feb 10 |
Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in NYC |
Feb 10 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 12 |
"Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Feb 12 |
NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets |
Feb 12 |
Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117 |
Feb 13 |
Apollo Computer Inc incorporated |
Feb 13 |
NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin |
Feb 14 |
"West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances |
Feb 14 |
13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY |
Feb 14 |
US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares |
Feb 15 |
Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec |
Feb 15 |
Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals |
Feb 16 |
Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France |
Feb 16 |
Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record) |
Feb 17 |
Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph) |
Feb 17 |
Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Feb 18 |
Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!) |
Feb 18 |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections |
Feb 19 |
Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay |
Feb 19 |
Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18 |
Feb 21 |
Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44 |
Feb 21 |
Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom) |
Feb 22 |
Afghanistan declares martial law |
Feb 22 |
USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice". USA captain Mike Eruzione scores winning goal in 3rd period |
Feb 23 |
13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY |
Feb 23 |
Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics |
Feb 23 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Feb 23 |
Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill |
Feb 24 |
"Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Feb 24 |
Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
Feb 24 |
Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders |
Feb 24 |
USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal |
Feb 25 |
Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname |
Feb 26 |
Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time |
Feb 26 |
Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname |
Feb 26 |
R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft |
Feb 27 |
22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet |
Feb 27 |
Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors |
Feb 27 |
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe |
Feb 27 |
Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota |
Feb 28 |
"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m) |
Feb 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 29 |
Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals |
Feb 29 |
Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England |
Mar 1 |
CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established |
Mar 1 |
Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater |
Mar 1 |
Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit |
Mar 1 |
Snow falls in Florida |
Mar 1 |
The US enacts the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act as part of a compromise between the Carter Administration and the Congress over the decontrol of crude oil prices |
Mar 2 |
3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts |
Mar 2 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
Mar 2 |
Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
Mar 3 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Mar 3 |
The USS Nautilus is decimmissioned. |
Mar 3 |
Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada |
Mar 4 |
40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
Mar 4 |
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe |
Mar 5 |
Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 |
Mar 6 |
Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time |
Mar 6 |
Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC |
Mar 6 |
French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) |
Mar 8 |
6th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
Mar 8 |
Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad |
Mar 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 8 |
The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. |
Mar 9 |
Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured |
Mar 9 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament |
Mar 10 |
Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show |
Mar 11 |
Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw |
Mar 12 |
Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago |
Mar 12 |
NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin |
Mar 13 |
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60) |
Mar 13 |
Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto |
Mar 13 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR |
Mar 14 |
3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Mar 14 |
Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay |
Mar 14 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR) |
Mar 14 |
Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) |
Mar 14 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch |
Mar 16 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
Mar 18 |
Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 |
Mar 20 |
The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks |
Mar 20 |
US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran |
Mar 21 |
On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot |
Mar 23 |
Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan |
Mar 23 |
Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament |
Mar 23 |
France performs nuclear test |
Mar 23 |
Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt |
Mar 24 |
42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 |
Mar 24 |
ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" |
Mar 24 |
Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks |
Mar 26 |
Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) |
Mar 27 |
"Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances |
Mar 27 |
"Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances |
Mar 27 |
Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) |
Mar 27 |
Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years |
Mar 27 |
The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. |
Mar 30 |
Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in NYC |
Mar 30 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 31 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 31 |
Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 31 |
President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry |
Mar 31 |
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors. |
Apr 1 |
Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games |
Apr 1 |
Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz |
Apr 1 |
France performs nuclear test |
Apr 1 |
Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist |
Apr 1 |
New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days. |
Apr 2 |
Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season |
Apr 3 |
France performs nuclear test |
Apr 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 6 |
9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
Apr 6 |
Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season |
Apr 6 |
Post It Notes, introduced |
Apr 7 |
Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis |
Apr 8 |
Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period |
Apr 9 |
Belgium's Marten's government resigns |
Apr 9 |
Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles |
Apr 9 |
Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 |
Apr 11 |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment |
Apr 11 |
Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up" |
Apr 12 |
BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms |
Apr 12 |
Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams) |
Apr 12 |
US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games |
Apr 12 |
Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession. |
Apr 12 |
Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland. |
Apr 13 |
"Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances |
Apr 13 |
"Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances |
Apr 13 |
44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275 |
Apr 13 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic |
Apr 13 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Apr 13 |
US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow |
Apr 14 |
1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida |
Apr 14 |
52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win |
Apr 14 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) |
Apr 16 |
Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis |
Apr 16 |
Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final |
Apr 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 18 |
Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK |
Apr 20 |
Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift |
Apr 20 |
Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament |
Apr 20 |
Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested. |
Apr 21 |
84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11 |
Apr 21 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit Mich |
Apr 21 |
9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Can in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course |
Apr 23 |
Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die |
Apr 24 |
US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die |
Apr 25 |
A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umpires from attacking a fan |
Apr 25 |
Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran |
Apr 25 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb |
Apr 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 26 |
Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01) |
Apr 26 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 26 |
Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy |
Apr 26 |
Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120 feet |
Apr 26 |
Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards) |
Apr 27 |
Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 28 |
Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns |
Apr 28 |
Reunion Arena in Dallas opens |
Apr 29 |
Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded. |
Apr 30 |
"Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances |
Apr 30 |
Ronald Harwood's "The Dresser" premieres in London |
Apr 30 |
Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London |
Apr 30 |
Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates; Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard becomes Queen |
May 1 |
"Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf |
May 1 |
15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins |
May 1 |
Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff |
May 1 |
Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff) |
May 2 |
Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder |
May 2 |
Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa |
May 2 |
Pope John Paul II begins African tour |
May 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 3 |
106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 |
May 3 |
Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR |
May 3 |
Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL |
May 4 |
Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning |
May 4 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament |
May 4 |
White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958 |
May 5 |
Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British SAS & police storm the building |
May 5 |
Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece. |
May 7 |
Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried |
May 7 |
Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC |
May 8 |
Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game |
May 8 |
World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated |
May 9 |
35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge |
May 10 |
"Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances |
May 11 |
Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
May 11 |
Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies |
May 12 |
1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris) |
May 12 |
West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header. |
May 13 |
Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets |
May 14 |
"Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances |
May 14 |
Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation |
May 14 |
Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II |
May 14 |
Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3 |
May 15 |
1st trans-US balloon crossing |
May 15 |
Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
May 15 |
Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA |
May 16 |
34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
May 16 |
Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis |
May 16 |
Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album |
May 16 |
Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes |
May 17 |
106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 |
May 17 |
Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours |
May 17 |
Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured |
May 17 |
Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live |
May 18 |
Belgium 3rd government of Martens forms |
May 18 |
China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket |
May 18 |
Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
May 18 |
Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru |
May 18 |
Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die |
May 18 |
Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. |
May 19 |
"Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances |
May 19 |
Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash |
May 20 |
710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated |
May 20 |
Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss |
May 20 |
Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157 |
May 20 |
In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism |
May 21 |
"Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back" opens in cinemas in UK and North America |
May 21 |
Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt |
May 21 |
Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy |
May 23 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton |
May 24 |
"Rock Lobster" by B-52s hits #56 |
May 24 |
Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages |
May 24 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2 |
May 25 |
"Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances |
May 25 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 25 |
Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") |
May 25 |
Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 3:29:59.572 (229.914 km/h) |
May 26 |
Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" |
May 26 |
Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters |
May 26 |
Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 |
May 27 |
South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed |
May 27 |
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. |
May 28 |
2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning |
May 28 |
Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5" |
May 28 |
Nottingham Forest wins 25th Europe Cup in Madrid |
May 29 |
"Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 perfs |
May 29 |
53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate |
May 29 |
Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres |
May 29 |
JMW Turner's "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC |
May 29 |
Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year |
May 30 |
1st papal visit to France since 1814 |
May 30 |
Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires |
May 30 |
Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million |
May 30 |
Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games |
May 31 |
"Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 |
May 31 |
Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich |
Jun 1 |
1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network |
Jun 1 |
ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
Jun 1 |
Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif |
Jun 1 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship |
Jun 1 |
Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run |
Jun 2 |
"Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs |
Jun 3 |
"It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs |
Jun 3 |
Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 |
Jun 3 |
ESPN begins televising college world series games |
Jun 3 |
Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination |
Jun 3 |
NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1 |
Jun 5 |
Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
Jun 7 |
"Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs |
Jun 7 |
"Cars" by Gary Numan hits #9 |
Jun 7 |
112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8 |
Jun 7 |
50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62) |
Jun 7 |
Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06) |
Jun 7 |
Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter |
Jun 8 |
"It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs |
Jun 8 |
26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little |
Jun 8 |
34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win |
Jun 8 |
50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) |
Jun 9 |
14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn |
Jun 9 |
Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine |
Jun 9 |
Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM |
Jun 9 |
Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth |
Jun 10 |
8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison |
Jun 11 |
K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF) |
Jun 12 |
Ronald Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests |
Jun 13 |
Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1 |
Jun 13 |
Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres |
Jun 13 |
Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall" |
Jun 13 |
Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation |
Jun 13 |
UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela |
Jun 14 |
Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32 |
Jun 15 |
"Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Jun 15 |
80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
Jun 15 |
Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jun 15 |
Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
Jun 16 |
"Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago |
Jun 16 |
US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents |
Jun 18 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa |
Jun 18 |
Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec |
Jun 19 |
Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed |
Jun 20 |
"Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters |
Jun 20 |
California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2 |
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 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 23 |
"David Letterman Show" debuts on NBC-TV daytime |
Jun 23 |
1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation |
Jun 23 |
West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium) |
Jun 23 |
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. |
Jun 24 |
Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million |
Jun 25 |
"Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances |
Jun 27 |
1st female state police graduates (NJ) |
Jun 27 |
Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0 |
Jun 27 |
Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81 |
Jun 27 |
US revives draft registration |
Jun 28 |
NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents |
Jun 28 |
The South African Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the series |
Jun 29 |
"Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances |
Jun 29 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
Jun 30 |
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow |
Jul 1 |
Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo |
Jul 1 |
'O Canada' officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. |
Jul 2 |
Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement |
Jul 2 |
Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr |
Jul 3 |
1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo |
Jul 3 |
73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 |
Jul 4 |
Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000 |
Jul 5 |
87th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Chrissie Evert (61 76) |
Jul 5 |
94th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86) |
Jul 6 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 6 |
France performs nuclear test |
Jul 6 |
Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836) |
Jul 7 |
Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours |
Jul 7 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 7 |
Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe |
Jul 7 |
Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA |
Jul 7 |
Institution of sharia in Iran. |
Jul 7 |
The Safra massacre in Lebanon. |
Jul 8 |
51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA |
Jul 8 |
All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds) |
Jul 9 |
7 die in a stampede to see Pope John Paul II in Brazil |
Jul 9 |
Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years |
Jul 9 |
Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound" released |
Jul 10 |
Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp |
Jul 10 |
Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time. |
Jul 11 |
American hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness |
Jul 13 |
35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
Jul 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 15 |
Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher which breaks Yogi Berra's record |
Jul 16 |
Polish railway workers block railway to Russia |
Jul 16 |
Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit |
Jul 17 |
Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president |
Jul 17 |
Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president |
Jul 17 |
Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan |
Jul 18 |
Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts |
Jul 18 |
Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France |
Jul 18 |
Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women |
Jul 18 |
Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana |
Jul 18 |
Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit |
Jul 19 |
22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott |
Jul 19 |
David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver |
Jul 20 |
109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane |
Jul 20 |
Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France |
Jul 20 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
Jul 21 |
Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins |
Jul 23 |
Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya |
Jul 23 |
River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter |
Jul 23 |
Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 |
Jul 25 |
Train crash at Winsum, 9 die |
Jul 25 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 27 |
Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead |
Jul 27 |
Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
Jul 28 |
Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president |
Jul 30 |
Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke |
Jul 30 |
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France |
Jul 31 |
John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges |
Jul 31 |
Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak |
Jul 31 |
Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 |
Jul 31 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 1 |
Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record |
Aug 1 |
Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03 |
Aug 1 |
Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland. |
Aug 2 |
Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed |
Aug 2 |
US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships |
Aug 3 |
22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR |
Aug 3 |
Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame |
Aug 3 |
Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 4 |
-11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean |
Aug 4 |
John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" |
Aug 4 |
Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills |
Aug 5 |
Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager |
Aug 5 |
NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game |
Aug 6 |
University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses |
Aug 7 |
Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed |
Aug 8 |
LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open |
Aug 9 |
Belgian constitution revised |
Aug 10 |
62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY |
Aug 10 |
8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley |
Aug 10 |
Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx |
Aug 11 |
Angola revises its constitution |
Aug 11 |
Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran |
Aug 11 |
Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns |
Aug 12 |
Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association. |
Aug 13 |
Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted |
Aug 13 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR |
Aug 14 |
Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale |
Aug 14 |
In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike, beginning of the Solidarity movement |
Aug 16 |
Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath |
Aug 16 |
Cozy Powell quits Rainbow |
Aug 16 |
Jools Holland quits Squeeze |
Aug 17 |
"Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances |
Aug 17 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 17 |
George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 |
Aug 17 |
Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history |
Aug 18 |
KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 |
Aug 19 |
George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 |
Aug 19 |
Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die |
Aug 19 |
Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" premieres in London |
Aug 20 |
NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day |
Aug 20 |
Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season |
Aug 20 |
Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest |
Aug 20 |
Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles |
Aug 20 |
UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital |
Aug 21 |
Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway |
Aug 22 |
Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale |
Aug 22 |
Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes |
Aug 23 |
Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss) |
Aug 24 |
Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 24 |
Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch |
Aug 25 |
Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances |
Aug 25 |
Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs |
Aug 26 |
Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick |
Aug 26 |
John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. |
Aug 27 |
Chon Doo Hwan elected president of South Korea |
Aug 31 |
"Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances |
Aug 31 |
80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton |
Aug 31 |
Poland's Solidarity trade union federations forms and is offically recognised by the Polish goverment |
Aug 31 |
The Gdańsk Agreement is signed. |
Sep 1 |
Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv |
Sep 1 |
Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787 |
Sep 1 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 1 |
Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario. |
Sep 2 |
John Arlott commentates on his last game, England v Australia at Lord's |
Sep 4 |
Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden) |
Sep 5 |
Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns |
Sep 5 |
World's longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens |
Sep 6 |
94th US Women's Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) |
Sep 6 |
Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) |
Sep 6 |
College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for |
Sep 6 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
Sep 6 |
Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981 |
Sep 6 |
Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14 |
Sep 7 |
32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes win. Notable for going ahead despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild. |
Sep 7 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf |
Sep 7 |
Cape Verde adopts its constitution |
Sep 7 |
Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis) |
Sep 7 |
Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season |
Sep 7 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic |
Sep 7 |
John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title (7-6 6-1 6-7 5-7 6-4) |
Sep 8 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest |
Sep 10 |
Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 |
Sep 10 |
Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick |
Sep 11 |
Chile adopts its constitution |
Sep 11 |
Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record |
Sep 12 |
Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey |
Sep 13 |
1st United Negro College Fund |
Sep 14 |
"Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs |
Sep 14 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
Sep 14 |
Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
Sep 15 |
Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" |
Sep 17 |
"Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres |
Sep 17 |
Iraq under Saddam Hussein signs accord with Algeria |
Sep 17 |
South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death |
Sep 17 |
Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22 |
Sep 17 |
Iraq breaks 1975 treaty with Iran and proclaims sovereignty over Shatt al-Arab waterway |
Sep 18 |
'Les Miserables' opens at Palais des Sports, Paris |
Sep 18 |
Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base |
Sep 18 |
Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station |
Sep 19 |
Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR) |
Sep 20 |
Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium |
Sep 20 |
George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good |
Sep 20 |
Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out |
Sep 21 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic |
Sep 21 |
LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception |
Sep 21 |
Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) |
Sep 21 |
Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row. |
Sep 22 |
Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway |
Sep 22 |
John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records |
Sep 23 |
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens |
Sep 23 |
Bob Marley's last concert at Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh |
Sep 24 |
Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season |
Sep 24 |
Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan |
Sep 25 |
Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows) |
Sep 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 25 |
Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres |
Sep 25 |
The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul. |
Sep 26 |
Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed |
Sep 26 |
Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla" |
Sep 26 |
Soyuz 38 returns to Earth |
Sep 27 |
WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM |
Sep 27 |
Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms. |
Sep 28 |
"Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs |
Sep 28 |
Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS |
Sep 28 |
Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing |
Sep 28 |
Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
Sep 29 |
Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen |
Sep 30 |
1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
Sep 30 |
A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100 |
Sep 30 |
Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
Sep 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 30 |
Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. |
Oct 1 |
Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days |
Oct 2 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 2 |
Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM) |
Oct 3 |
4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris |
Oct 4 |
Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies |
Oct 5 |
Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx |
Oct 5 |
Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
Oct 5 |
Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417 |
Oct 6 |
Guyana adopts constitution |
Oct 6 |
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months inprisonment on assault charges |
Oct 7 |
Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns |
Oct 8 |
After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marley collapsed in Central Park while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital |
Oct 8 |
British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro |
Oct 8 |
USSR & Syria sign peace treaty |
Oct 8 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 9 |
1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn |
Oct 9 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz |
Oct 10 |
4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria |
Oct 10 |
Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated |
Oct 10 |
Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series |
Oct 11 |
Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days |
Oct 11 |
Dallas Mavericks first game at Reunion Arena, beat San Antonio 103-92 |
Oct 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 12 |
"Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 perfs |
Oct 12 |
7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA |
Oct 12 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
Oct 13 |
14th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell, Emmylou Harris & George Jones wins |
Oct 13 |
Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY |
Oct 14 |
Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener |
Oct 14 |
Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court |
Oct 15 |
George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids |
Oct 15 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein |
Oct 16 |
"Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances |
Oct 16 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 17 |
1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39) |
Oct 18 |
Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA |
Oct 18 |
Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT) |
Oct 19 |
Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle |
Oct 21 |
"Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances |
Oct 21 |
1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years) |
Oct 21 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected member of Politburo |
Oct 21 |
Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history |
Oct 22 |
4th government of Martens forms in Belgium |
Oct 22 |
New South Korean constitution comes into effect |
Oct 23 |
"Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances |
Oct 23 |
McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA |
Oct 23 |
Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness |
Oct 24 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 24 |
Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar |
Oct 24 |
John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK |
Oct 24 |
Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity |
Oct 25 |
Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 25 |
Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks |
Oct 26 |
10th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3 |
Oct 26 |
11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41 |
Oct 26 |
St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times |
Oct 27 |
Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen |
Oct 27 |
Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph |
Oct 30 |
Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute |
Oct 30 |
NASA launches Flt Satcom-4 |
Oct 31 |
Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) |
Oct 31 |
Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union |
Oct 31 |
Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat |
Nov 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Nov 3 |
Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC |
Nov 3 |
Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's |
Nov 4 |
Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) |
Nov 4 |
Libyan invasion in Chad |
Nov 4 |
Ronald Reagan (R) defeats incumbant US President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide |
Nov 4 |
Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires |
Nov 4 |
Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards |
Nov 8 |
Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn |
Nov 9 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran |
Nov 9 |
Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 10 |
Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare |
Nov 10 |
Poland acknowledges Solidarity union |
Nov 10 |
Iraq captures southern port of Khorramshahr |
Nov 11 |
Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37 |
Nov 11 |
Islanders' Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars |
Nov 12 |
Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award |
Nov 12 |
NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana |
Nov 12 |
US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn |
Nov 13 |
US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn |
Nov 13 |
Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World; she resigns the next day because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend |
Nov 14 |
Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral |
Nov 14 |
Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World |
Nov 14 |
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