January 1980 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1980 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins
• 02 Jan 1980 US President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to Moscow.
• 03 Jan 1980 Gold hits record US$634 an ounce.
• 04 Jan 1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
• 06 Jan 1980 Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
• 07 Jan 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation approving $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• 09 Jan 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• 10 Jan 1980 Last broadcast of Rockford Files on NBC
• 11 Jan 1980 Debut of Pretenders
• 12 Jan 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
• 13 Jan 1980 King of Schnorrers closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 performances
• 14 Jan 1980 Blues Brothers movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens
• 16 Jan 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
• 17 Jan 1980 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3.
• 18 Jan 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
• 20 Jan 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
• 21 Jan 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
• 22 Jan 1980 Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
• 24 Jan 1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is ordered to be liquidated due to bankruptcy.
• 25 Jan 1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
• 26 Jan 1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 27 Jan 1980 Near Livermore, California, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs.
• 28 Jan 1980 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman and Sally Field win.
• 29 Jan 1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
• 31 Jan 1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41.

Famous Birthday

• Zooey Deschanel

  American actress, singer-songwriter, musician and producer.

• Nick Carter

  American musician, singer, dancer and drummer; the youngest, and by some accounts, the most popular, member of the "boy-band," the...

• Olivia Ruiz

  French singer of Spanish descent, belonging to the "Nouvelle Chanson" genre.

• Jason Segel

  American actor.

• Marat Safin

  Russian tennis player and politician.

• Wilmer Valderrama

  Venezuelan/Colombian-American comedian.

• Elin Nordegren

  Swedish model.

• Sarah Shahi

  American actress and model.

• K-Maro
• Rachel Nichols

  American actress.

• Rachel Nichols

  American actress.

• Christopher Masterson

  American actor.

• Jenson Button

  English Formula One driver.

• Michelle Wild
• Felicitas Woll
• Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Dancer.

• Jennifer Lauret
• Xavier Hernández
• Eva Padberg

  German model, singer and actress.

• Helena Karel
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Famous Deaths

• Cecil Beaton

  British-American noted photographer, stage and Oscar-winning film designer and author, noted for photographs of society, film stars and...

• Joy Adamson

  Austria-born Kenyan painter and author (d. 1980).

• George Sutherland Fraser

  Scottish poet and academic (Born 1915).

• Iris Meredith

  Actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), dies at 64.

• Sarah Selby

  Actress (Tower of London), dies at 74.

• Sir Cecil Beaton

  English fashion designer (Born 1904).

• William O Douglas

  U.

• Axel Springer Jr

  German photographer, commits suicide at age 38.

• Carl White

  rocker, dies.

• Adolph Deutsch

  American composer and arranger (Born 1897).

• Lucien Buysse

  Belgian cyclist (Born 1892).

• Larry Williams

  American singer and songwriter (Born 1935).

• Amos Milburn

  American R&B boogie-woogie singer and pianist, popular during the 1940s and 1950s.

• Pietro Nenni

  Italian political leader and journalist, leader of the Italian socialist Party, who filled posts in several Italian governments during the...

• Larry Williams

  American singer-songwriter pianist and producer (d. 1980).

• Barbara Pym

  Romantic author (Very Private Eye).

• Bo Rein

  American football player and coach (d. 1980).

• Hughie Critz

  American baseball player (Born 1900).

• Lil Dagover

  Dutch-born German actress (Born 1887).

• David Newell

  Actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. K.C and the Sunshine Band - Please Don't Go
2. Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
3. Michael Jackson - Rock With You
4. Captain and Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
5. Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
2. St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma
3. The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
4. Abba - Super Trouper
5. Abba - I Have A Dream