Events in 1980

310 notable events from 1980. Page 1 of 4.

• 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
  from May 18, 1980 · United States
• Gwangju Uprising
  May 18, 1980–May 27, 1980 · South Korea
• Murder of John Lennon
  Dec 8, 1980 · United States
• Ken McElroy
  Jul 8, 1980 · —
• Iranian Embassy siege
  Apr 30, 1980–May 5, 1980 · United Kingdom
• Operation Eagle Claw
  Apr 24, 1980–Apr 25, 1980 · Iran
• Herb Baumeister
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1995 · United States
• Saudia Flight 163
  Aug 19, 1980 · Saudi Arabia
• Bologna massacre
  Aug 2, 1980 · Italy
• Kramatorsk radiological accident
  1980s · Ukraine
• Death of Azaria Chamberlain
  Aug 17, 1980 · Australia
• Canadian Caper
  1980 · Iran
• Mariel boatlift
  Apr 15, 1980–Oct 31, 1980 · Cuba
• Itavia Flight 870
  Jun 27, 1980 · Italy
• Randall Woodfield
  Oct 9, 1980–Feb 15, 1981 · United States
• Rendlesham Forest incident
  from Dec 1980 · United Kingdom
• 1980 Irpinia earthquake
  Nov 23, 1980 · Italy
• Clifford Olson
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1981 · Canada
• Timothy White (abduction victim)
  Feb 13, 1980 · —
• Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing
  Aug 1980 · United States
• Toyota Shoji
  1980s · Japan
• Internal conflict in Peru
  from May 17, 1980 · Peru
• Serhiy Tkach
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 2005 · Ukraine
• 1980 Turkish coup d'état
  Sep 12, 1980 · Türkiye
• Assassination of Piersanti Mattarella
  Jan 6, 1980 · Italy
• LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007
  Mar 14, 1980 · Poland
• Nagoya female university student kidnapping murder case
  Dec 2, 1980 · Japan
• Carol Bundy
  Jun 1, 1980–Aug 4, 1980 · United States
• MGM Grand fire
  Nov 21, 1980 · United States
• Zhdanovskaya Station murder
  Dec 26, 1980 · Russian Federation
• Toyama-Nagano consecutive female kidnapping murder case
  Feb 23, 1980 · Japan
• Norco shootout
  May 9, 1980 · United States
• Giarre murder
  Oct 31, 1980 · Italy
• Disappearance of John Favara
  Jul 28, 1980 · United States
• Sumpul River massacre
  May 14, 1980 · Honduras
• Murder of Sherri Jarvis
  Nov 1, 1980 · United States
• Bofors scandal
  1980s · Sweden
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces
  Jan 1, 1980 · Iran
• Itoman scandal
  1980s–1990s · Japan
• Dan-Air Flight 1008
  Apr 25, 1980 · Spain
• Coup d'état of May Seventeenth
  May 17, 1980 · South Korea
• Paul Michael Stephani
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1982 · United States
• Oktoberfest bombing
  Sep 26, 1980 · Germany
• Pierre Chanal
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1988 · —
• New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
  Feb 2, 1980–Feb 3, 1980 · United States
• 1980 Dominican Republic Embassy siege in Bogotá
  Feb 27, 1980–Apr 27, 1980 · Colombia
• Cash–Landrum incident
  Dec 29, 1980 · United States
• 1980 Miami riots
  Jan 1, 1980 · United States
• 1980 Totonero
  Mar 23, 1980 · Italy
• Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
  1980 · United Kingdom
• Murders of Dean and Tina Clouse
  Dec 1, 1980 · United States
• Glasgow ice cream wars
  1980s · United Kingdom
• Martin Lee Sanders
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1983 · —
• 1980 Shinjuku bus fire
  Aug 19, 1980 · Japan
• Kanagawa metal bat parents murder case
  Nov 29, 1980 · Japan
• Mourmelon disappearances
  Jan 4, 1980–Aug 8, 1987 · France
• Joseph Christopher
  Sep 22, 1980–Jan 1, 1981 · —
• Otłoczyn railway accident
  Aug 19, 1980 · Poland
• Oxford child sex abuse ring
  1980 · United Kingdom
• I-70 Strangler
  Jun 1, 1980–Oct 1, 1991 · United States
• Gulf Breeze UFO incident
  1980s · United States
• Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott
  May 28, 1980 · United States
• Murder of Tammy Terrell
  Oct 4, 1980 · United States
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike of 1980
  1980 · Poland
• Disappearance of Laureen Rahn
  Apr 27, 1980 · United States
• Flick affair
  1980s · Germany
• Henryk Kukuła
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1990 · Poland
• Assassination of the Marquesses of Urquijo
  Aug 1, 1980 · Spain
• Shizuoka gas explosion
  Aug 16, 1980 · Japan
• Charles T. Sinclair
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1990 · —
• 1980 Liberian coup d'état
  Apr 12, 1980 · Liberia
• Aeroflot Flight 4225
  Jul 8, 1980 · Kazakhstan
• Kumano family seven-person murder case
  Jan 31, 1980 · Japan
• Dunand case
  1980s · France
• Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
  Oct 25, 1980 · Netherlands
• Charles Albanese
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1981 · United States
• Tsukasa-chan kidnapping murder case
  Aug 1980 · Japan
• Saudia Flight 162
  Dec 22, 1980 · Qatar
• Huddersfield sex abuse ring
  1980s–2013 · United Kingdom
• James Winkles
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1981 · United States
• 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador
  Dec 2, 1980 · El Salvador
• Christine Falling
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1982 · —
• Castration serial murders
  1980–1986 · United States
• 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster
  Mar 18, 1980 · Russian Federation
• Gundolf Köhler
  Sep 26, 1980 · Germany
• Murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps
  Dec 31, 1980 · United States
• Viña del Mar psychopaths
  Aug 5, 1980–Nov 1, 1981 · Chile
• Kawaji Prince Hotel fire
  Nov 20, 1980 · Japan
• Nojeh coup plot
  Jul 10, 1980 · Iran
• Korean Air Lines Flight 015
  Nov 19, 1980 · South Korea
• 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal
  1980 · United States
• Frank Amato
  Sep 20, 1980 · —
• 1980 Mount Fuji rockfall
  Aug 14, 1980 · Japan
• Murder of Patsy Morris
  Jun 16, 1980 · United Kingdom
• Opernhauskrawalle
  May 1980 · Switzerland
• Viktor Bolkhovsky
  Jan 1, 1980–Jan 1, 1999 · Russian Federation
• Keith Zettlemoyer
  Oct 13, 1980 · —
• 1980 Paris synagogue bombing
  Oct 3, 1980 · France
• Zushi Kaisei High School Happo-one mountaineering accident
  Dec 26, 1980 · Japan
• Murder of Valerio Verbano
  Feb 22, 1980 · Italy