Births - August 1980:
Deaths - August 1980:
1980 (25 aug) Gower Champion dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
1980 (27 aug) Sam Levenson humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
News &
Events - August 1980
1980 (01 aug) Gerd Wessig of East Germany set the high jump record
1980 (02 aug) US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1980 (03 aug) Duke Snider & Al Kaline enter baseball's Hall of Fame
1980 (05 aug) NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
1980 (06 aug) University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript
& curriculum abuses
1980 (08 aug) LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
1980 (10 aug) Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
1980 (10 aug) Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time
1980 (11 aug) Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
1980 (13 aug) Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1980 (19 aug) Saudi Arabian Lockheed Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 (20 aug) NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 (20 aug) Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 (20 aug) UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital
1980 (31 aug) Poland's Solidarity labor union founded