1980 Trivia

• (1/3) Gold now worth $634 per ounce
  
• (1/4) President Carter calls for U.S. to boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow
  
• (1/10) Rockford Files TV series on NBC ends its run
  
• (1/14) "The Blues Brothers" with Dan Arkroyd and John Belushi opens in theaters
  
• (1/16) Paul McCartney arrested and jailed in Tokyo for 10 days when caught with marijuana
  
• (1/18) Gold reaches \\$1,000 per ounce
  
• (1/18) Pink Floyd "The Wall" peaks at #1 on the charts
  
• (1/20) President Carter officially announces the boycott of the Summer Olympics
  
• (1/25) Paul McCartney released from jail and deported from Japan
  
• (1/29) 6 United States hostages held in Iran are freed with the help of Canadians
  
• (2/01) "Love Of Life" soap opera ends after 28 years on the air
  
• (2/19) AC/DC singer Bon Scott dies from suffocation at 33
  
• (2/22) Afghanistan declares martial law
  
• (2/23) Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37 million gallon spill
  
• (3/05) Actor Jay Silverheels who played Tonto on the Lone Ranger, dies at 60
  
• (3/13) Ford not guilty in deaths of 3 women who died in a Pinto fire
  
• (3/18) Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
  
• (3/20) United States makes appeal to International Court to free Iran hostages
  
• (3/21) JR is shot on the TV series Dallas
  
• (3/24) ABC's Iran hostage crisis show renamed "Nightline"
  
• (3/24) Capitol Records releases rare Beatles songs
  
• (3/28) Olympic medalist Jesse Owens dies
  
• (4/15) Actor Raymond Bailey (Mr. Drysdale of Beverly Hillbillies) dies at 75
  
• (4/19) Alfred Hitchcock dies at 80
  
• (4/07) Jimmy Carter stops relations with Iran until hostage crisis ends
  
• (4/26) Iran begins moving hostages at the U.S. Embassy
  
• (4/30) Iranian Embassy in London is overtaken by terrorists
  
• (5/01) Barbara Mandrell wins the Country Music Awards
  
• (5/02) Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA members are arrested on murder charges
  
• (5/02) Pink Floyd album "Another Brick In The Wall Part II" is banned in South Africa
  
• (5/18) Mount St. Helens in Washington erupts twice in the same year
  
• (5/21) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back opens in theaters
  
• (5/24) Iran refuses international plea to release U.S. hostages
  
• (5/31) J. Geils Band song "Love Stinks" peaks the charts at #38
  
• (6/01) CNN becomes first 24 hour news network
  
• (6/03) President Jimmy Carter wins enough nominations to run for re-election
  
• (6/09) Richard Pryor burned and almost killed when freebasing cocaine and it explodes
  
• (6/18) The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi opens in theaters
  
• (7/07) Sandra Day O'Connor is first female to be nominated for the Supreme Court
  
• (7/09) Disney movie "The Fox & The Hound" is released
  
• (7/16) Ronald Reagan is nominated for Presidency by Detroit Republicans
  
• (7/17) Ragan accepts nomination
  
• (7/18) Billy Joel's album "Glass Houses" hits the charts
  
• (7/19) U.S. and other countries boycott Moscow Olympics
  
• (7/24) Actors Peter Sellers dies at 54
  
• (8/19) Saudi Arabian airliner crashes killing 301
  
• (10/9) First use of banking done on home computer
  
• (11/4) Governor Ronald Reagan defeats President Jimmy Carter
  
• (11/7) Actor Steve McQueen dies of cancer at 50
  
• (11/19) Brooke Shields commercial "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins" is banned
  
• (11/21) Dallas episode "Who Shot JR?" gets huge audience
  
• (11/21) MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas claims 84 lives
  
• (12/08) Mark David Chapman kills John Lennon outside his New York City apartment
  
• (12/12) U.S. copyright laws is expanded to include computer software
  
• (12/19) Iran requests \\$24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
  
• Edward Kennedy pulls from elections, Carter wins nomination at Democratic National Convention
  
• Rubik's cube is invented and starts a new craze
  
• Iranians hold American hostages and military attempts at freeing them fail
  
• 3M invents the soon-to-become popular Post-It brand sticky notes
  
• Japan becomes the largest automobile manufacturer
  
• Bill Gates buys 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, later renamed MS-DOS
  
• Over 100,000 Cubans come to America on the "freedom flotilla"
  
• Sony invests the Walkman portable cassette/radio player
  
• Comedian Jimmy Durante dies at the age of 86
  
• Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of "Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet" is murdered
  
• France shows a holographic movie of a bird (namely a gull) in flight
  
• Phototypesetting by use of a laser begins
  
• A public electronic fax called Intelpost begins
  
• An oil platform in the North Sea collapses during a storm, less than 100 of 200 rescued
  
• Fidel Castro withdraws guards from Peru Embassy, about 10,000 Cuban refugees go to embassy
  
• Poland laborers form union called solidarity, which kicks off breakdown of USSR
  
• Iraq and Iran begin their 7 year war
  
• Atlanta, Georgia gets first fiber optic system
  
• Addressable converters can be used to locate an individual home
  
• Cordless phones are invented
• Front wheel drive cars start becoming popular