Births - March 1980:

1980 (01 mar)     Rose VBL Windsor daughter of English prince Richard
1980 (01 mar)     Shahid Afridi cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)
1980 (15 mar)     Deidra Graham Salt Lake City UT, gymnast (alternate-Olympics-96)
1980 (24 mar)     Luke Edwards Nevada City CA, actor (Newsie)
1980 (28 mar)     Cara Lewis Miss Mississippi Teen-USA (1997)
1980 (30 mar)     Liriel Higa Los Angeles CA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 (31 mar)     Jenny Smith Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)

Deaths - March 1980:

1980 (01 mar)     John Jacob Niles composer, dies at 87
1980 (05 mar)     Jay Silverheels actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1980 (05 mar)     Winifred Wagner-William German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
1980 (09 mar)     Olga Chekova actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
1980 (10 mar)     Doctor Tarnoff Jean Harris kills Scarsdale diet doctor
1980 (10 mar)     Herman Tarnower doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1980 (13 mar)     Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer, dies at 61
1980 (17 mar)     Rudolf G Escher Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68
1980 (18 mar)     Erich Fromm German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
1980 (18 mar)     Herman Griffith cricketer (13 Tests for West Indies, 44 wickets), dies
1980 (21 mar)     Gideon Fagan composer, dies at 75
1980 (24 mar)     Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated while conducting mass in San Salvador
1980 (26 mar)     Jon-Jon Poulos rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1980 (28 mar)     Dick Haymes actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
1980 (28 mar)     Jesse Owens (Olympics-gold-36), dies in Tucson AZ at the age of 66
1980 (29 mar)     [Annunzio Paolo] Mantovani orchestra leader, dies at 74
1980 (31 mar)     Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame, dies in Arizona at 66

News & Events - In March 1980

1980 (01 mar)     CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 (01 mar)     Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 (01 mar)     Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI
1980 (01 mar)     Snow falls in Florida
1980 (02 mar)     3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pittsburgh
1980 (02 mar)     Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1980 (02 mar)     Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1980 (03 mar)     France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 (04 mar)     40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 (04 mar)     Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1980 (05 mar)     Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1980 (06 mar)     7th Daytime Emmy Awards presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1980 (06 mar)     French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1980 (06 mar)     Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1980 (08 mar)     Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 (08 mar)     US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 (09 mar)     Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1980 (09 mar)     Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1980 (10 mar)     Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show
1980 (11 mar)     Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw
1980 (12 mar)     Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 (12 mar)     New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1980 (13 mar)     Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
1980 (13 mar)     Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 (14 mar)     3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1980 (14 mar)     Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 (14 mar)     World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary)
1980 (14 mar)     World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 (14 mar)     World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1980 (14 mar)     World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic)
1980 (16 mar)     Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1980 (18 mar)     Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1980 (20 mar)     The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
1980 (20 mar)     US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1980 (21 mar)     On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
1980 (23 mar)     Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs Pakistan
1980 (23 mar)     Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
1980 (23 mar)     France performs nuclear test
1980 (23 mar)     Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1980 (24 mar)     42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 (24 mar)     ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980 (24 mar)     Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1980 (26 mar)     Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1980 (27 mar)     "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 (27 mar)     "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 (27 mar)     Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)
1980 (27 mar)     Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1980 (30 mar)     Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 (30 mar)     Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1980 (31 mar)     Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title
1980 (31 mar)     Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title
1980 (31 mar)     President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry