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* November - [[Ronald Reagan]] defeats [[Jimmy Carter]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1980|U.S. presidential election]] |
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Revision as of 15:43, 25 February 2002
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years: 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 - 1980 - 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Births
- February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, actor.
- February 11 - Natasha Bobo?, actress.
Deaths
- April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, film director
- July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor
- December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (author)
- Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African linguist
- John Winston Lennon - (1940-1980)
Events
- April 30 - Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- May 18 - Mount Saint Helens erupts
- Summer Olympic Games in Moscow USSR
- War begins between Iran and Iraq
- Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR
- November - Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election
Sport
- January 20 - Super Bowl XIV Pittsburgh Steelers (31) def. Los Angeles Rams (19)
- Physics - James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
- Chemistry - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
- Medicine - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D Snell
- Literature - Czeslaw Milosz
- Peace- Adolfo perez Esquivel
- Economics - Lawrence Klein