Births - December 1980:

1980 (03 dec)     Anna Chlumsky Chicago IL, actress (My Girl)
1980 (11 dec)     Rider Strong San Francisco CA, actor (Shawn Hunter-Boy Meets World)
1980 (26 dec)     Serena Phillips Corvallis OR, figure skater (1997 Pruetten Champion)
1980 (30 dec)     Eliza Dushku Boston MA, actress (This Boy's Life, True Lies, Journey)

Deaths - December 1980:

1980 (01 dec)     Sam Levene actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
1980 (04 dec)     Francisco Sá Carneiro PM of Portugal (1980), dies in air crash
1980 (04 dec)     Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz sprinter (Olympics-gold-1932), shot at 69
1980 (05 dec)     Don Taylor cricketer (3 Tests for New Zealand 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
1980 (07 dec)     Darby Crash rocker, dies at 22
1980 (08 dec)     John Lennon assassinated at 40 in New York by Mark David Chapman
1980 (13 dec)     Harm van Riel Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1980 (14 dec)     Elston Howard MVP catcher (New York Yankees), dies at 59
1980 (16 dec)     Harland "Colonel" Sanders founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
1980 (18 dec)     Alexei N Kosygin Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers a fatal heart attack at 76
1980 (21 dec)     Marc Connelly playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
1980 (22 dec)     Dick Kallman actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
1980 (24 dec)     Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder composer, dies at 73
1980 (24 dec)     Karl Dönitz German great admiral/Führer (1945), dies at 89
1980 (25 dec)     Fred Emney actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80
1980 (25 dec)     Louis Neefs Belgian singer, dies at 43
1980 (25 dec)     Oscar Romero archbishop of El Salvador, murdered
1980 (28 dec)     Amir Elahi cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1980 (28 dec)     Jersey calf lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1980 (29 dec)     Roy Engle actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
1980 (29 dec)     Tim Hardin US singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39
1980 (31 dec)     Arthur Wellard cricketer (2 Tests for England, legendary 6-hitter), dies
1980 (31 dec)     Marshall McLuhan Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69
1980 (31 dec)     Raoul Walsh US director (High Sierra), dies at about 88

News & Events - December 1980 ...

1980 (01 dec)     Mel Harris appears on MASH in "Cementing Relationships"
1980 (01 dec)     US Justice Department sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination
1980 (01 dec)     46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
1980 (02 dec)     4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1980 (03 dec)     New York Federal jury finds Representatives Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
1980 (04 dec)     Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Colorado Rockies)
1980 (04 dec)     2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 (05 dec)     Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1980 (06 dec)     Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
1980 (06 dec)     NASA launches Intelsat V
1980 (08 dec)     "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1980 (09 dec)     61ºF in Boston at 1 AM
1980 (10 dec)     Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 (10 dec)     USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 (11 dec)     Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, New South Wales vs Victoria
1980 (12 dec)     US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1980 (13 dec)     "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 (14 dec)     Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 (14 dec)     At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 (14 dec)     New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat New York Jets 21-20
1980 (14 dec)     "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1980 (14 dec)     Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 (14 dec)     Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 (14 dec)     USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 (15 dec)     New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15 million
1980 (15 dec)     Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 (15 dec)     ZBZ Sangha (now ZBZ Bodhidharma) officially registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1980 (16 dec)     President-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as Secretary of State
1980 (17 dec)     Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 (17 dec)     Mauritania provisional constitution published
1980 (18 dec)     Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1980 (18 dec)     Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1980 (18 dec)     IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 (18 dec)     Vietnam adopts constitution
1980 (19 dec)     Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
1980 (19 dec)     Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1980 (19 dec)     Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1980 (20 dec)     USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1980 (20 dec)     NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
1980 (21 dec)     Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1980 (22 dec)     President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior)
1980 (22 dec)     Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 (23 dec)     Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in New York NY
1980 (24 dec)     Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1980 (27 dec)     Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
1980 (28 dec)     México terminated fishing agreements with US
1980 (29 dec)     Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1980 (30 dec)     "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
1980 (31 dec)     A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 (31 dec)     New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1980 (31 dec)     Senegal President Leopold Senghor resigns