Explore 5094 historical events from 1980–1989.
The Gwangju Uprising, also known in South Korea as May 18 Democratization Movement, was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980,…
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at
The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, also known as The Night of the Twisters, was a tornado outbreak that produced a series of destructive and exceptionally erratic tornadoes th…
The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to
Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana t…
Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
Indirect presidential elections were held in South Korea on 27 August 1980 to fill the vacancy caused by President Choi Kyu-hah's resignation.
South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun…
The 43rd government of Turkey, also known as the 6th Demirel Government or the Unwillingly Nationalist Front Government, was a minority government led by Süleyman Demirel of Justic…
The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country …
The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela
On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870, a Douglas DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica at…
The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 8
Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks. Bo…
Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the…
Sharia, also transliterated as Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah, is a body of religious law that form the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and h…
Institution of sharia law in Iran.
The 1980 State of Origin game was the first game between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues rugby league teams to be played under "state of origin" selection rule…
The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.
Soyuz 38 was a human spaceflight mission conducted by the Soviet Union during September 1980. The Soyuz spacecraft brought two visiting crew members to the Salyut 6 space station, …
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
Fabián Andrés Vargas Rivera is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his professional career playing for América de Cali and Boca…
Fabián Vargas, Colombian footballer
Curtis Woodhouse is an English former professional footballer turned professional boxer and football manager, most recently in charge of Marske United. Woodhouse played football as…
Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer, boxer, and manager
Aeroflot Flight 4225 was a Tupolev Tu-154B-2 on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Alma-Ata Airport to Simferopol Airport on 8 July 1980. The aircraft had reached an altitu…
Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day…
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially branded as Moscow 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The g…
Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Mosco…
The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only…
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic stateswoman and theatre director who was the fourth president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and…
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head…
The Bologna massacre was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy, on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded over 200…
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
Emma Husar is a former Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Lindsay, which she represented from 2016 to 2019. During a…
Emma Husar, Australian politician
Antonio Ramiro Romo is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. He played colle…
Tony Romo, American football player and announcer
Quincy Zuma Wambitta Timberlake is a Kenyan political activist, occultist, and former presidential candidate, now resident in Australia. Along with Esther Arunga and Joseph Hellon,…
Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa bec…
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled Saudia passenger flight departing from Quaid-e-Azam Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, bound for Kandara Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, via then-Riya…
Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport…
The Otłoczyn train collision was a train crash which occurred on 19 August 1980, near the village of Otłoczyn. At 4:30 a.m., a freight train collided with a passenger train which r…
Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62…