Births - April 1980:

1980 (03 apr)     Luella Gear actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
1980 (10 apr)     Kay Medford actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1980 (12 apr)     William R Tolbert Jr Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup
1980 (14 apr)     Tom Fadden actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
1980 (15 apr)     Jean-Paul Sartre existentialist philosopher, dies in Paris at 74
1980 (15 apr)     Marshall Reed actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 (15 apr)     Paul Langton actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 (15 apr)     Raymond Bailey actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1980 (19 apr)     Alfred Hitchcock dies in Calif at 80
1980 (19 apr)     Ethel Wilson actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1980 (22 apr)     Jane Froman singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1980 (28 apr)     Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1980 (29 apr)     Alfred Hitchcock director (Psycho), dies at 80

1980 (01 apr)     Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1980 (02 apr)     Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1980 (06 apr)     Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1980 (07 apr)     Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1980 (08 apr)     Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings
           set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
1980 (09 apr)     Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
1980 (09 apr)     Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1980 (11 apr)     Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
1980 (11 apr)     Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1980 (12 apr)     Brewers beat Red Sox 18-1
1980 (12 apr)     Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
1980 (13 apr)     Steve Ballesteros becomes youngest winner of the Masters
1980 (13 apr)     Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2568 Maksutov
1980 (14 apr)     E Bowell discovers asteroids #2759 Idomeneus & #2830 Greenwich
1980 (15 apr)     E Bowell discovers asteroid #3041 Webb
1980 (16 apr)     L Brozek discovers asteroid #2696 Magion
1980 (18 apr)     Zimbabwe's (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1980 (21 apr)     Bill Rodgers wins his 3rd Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz is disqualified
           as women's champ as she had not run the entire course
1980 (23 apr)     Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1980 (24 apr)     US miltary operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1980 (25 apr)     Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1980 (26 apr)     Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1980 (26 apr)     Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1980 (26 apr)     Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
1980 (28 apr)     Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 (30 apr)     Queen Beatrix of Netherlands ascends to the throne
1980 (30 apr)     Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London