March 1980 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
• 02 Mar 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pittsburgh
• 03 Mar 1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
• 04 Mar 1980 40th hat trick in New York Islanders' history-Mike Bossy.
• 05 Mar 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
• 06 Mar 1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
• 08 Mar 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 09 Mar 1980 Flemish / Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
• 10 Mar 1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
• 12 Mar 1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago, Illinois.
• 13 Mar 1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 metre (1:13.60).
• 14 Mar 1980 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
• 16 Mar 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic.
• 18 Mar 1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
• 20 Mar 1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.
• 21 Mar 1980 On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
• 22 Mar 1980 The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.
• 23 Mar 1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
• 24 Mar 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
• 26 Mar 1980 A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers), killing 23.
• 27 Mar 1980 Happy New Year opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
• 31 Mar 1980 Jesse Owens, American athlete (Olympics-gold-1936), dies in Tucson, Arizona at age 66 (born 1913).

Famous Birthday

• Matthew Gray Gubler

  American actor.

• Ronaldinho (footballer)
• Laura Prepon

  American actress.

• Deryck Whibley

  Guitarist.

• Chris Powell (personal trainer)
• Rebel Wilson

  Movie Actress.

• Nicolas Duvauchelle

  French actor, best known for his roles as Theo in the TV serie "Braquo" and as Augustin in the film "Le Grand Meaulnes".

• Chingy

  American rapper.

• Renan Luce

  French singer and songwriter.

• Murat Boz

  Pop Singer.

• Alexei Yagudin

  Russian figure skater.

• Sophia Myles

  English actress.

• Brooke Berry
• Burcu Kara
• Kafétien Gomis

  French long jumper.

• Daphné Bürki
• Julien Jeanpierre

  French tennis player who was a world number one ranked junior and had wins over Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and David Nalbandian during...

• Meiling Melançon
• Sébastien Frey

  French footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bursaspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.

• Chris D'Elia

  Comedian.

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Famous Deaths

• Oscar Romero

  El Salvadorian ecclesiastic, an activist Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador and martyr.

• Jesse Owens

  American premier track star, winning four Gold Medals in the 1936 Olympic games and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, the highest...

• Dick Haymes

  Argentinean-American singer who began his career as a radio announcer, band vocalist and occasional film extra.

• Rudolf G Escher

  Dutch Composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68.

• Gideon Fagan

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Erich Fromm at age 79 in Muralto

  Switzerland (born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany); writer, professor of psychoanalysis (born 1900).

• Milton H Erickson

  American psychiatrist (Born 1901).

• Winifred Wagner-William

  German World Festival organizer, dies at age 82.

• Herman Tarnower

  doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris.

• Jon-Jon Poulos

  rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at age 32.

• Johannes Martin Bijvoet

  Dutch chemist and crystallographer (Born 1892).

• Alan Hardaker

  English football administrator (Born 1912).

• J F A McManus

  Canadian pathologist (Born 1911).

• Eric Kerfoot

  English footballer (Born 1924).

• Luis Piazzini

  Argentine chess master (Born 1905).

• Alex Vetchinsky

  British film designer (Born 1904).

• Alfred Ple

  Olympic French rower (Born 1888).

• Arthur Charles Dobson

  British racing driver (Born 1914).

• Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente

  Spanish populariser environmentalist (Born 1928).

• Angelo Bruno

  American mobster (Born 1910).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
2. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
3. Teri DeSario - Yes, I'm Ready
4. Dan Fogelberg - Longer
5. Spinners - Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl (Medley)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Specials - Too Much Too Young (The Special AKA Live! EP)
2. Fern Kinney - Together We Are Beautiful
3. Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County
4. Blondie - Atomic
5. The Nolans - I'm In The Mood For Dancing