Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. His accolades include a Laurence Olivier Award and a Critics' Cho…
Jonathan Bailey, English actor
The Iran–Iraq War, also called the First Imposed War by Iran, began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After eight years of conflict, both countries accepted a ceas…
Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in…
On 28 August 1988, three aircraft of the Italian Air Force display team collided during the Flugtag '88 airshow at USAF Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany. They cr…
Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls…
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, and Salt Lake City International Airport, Utah. On Aug…
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
CAAC Flight 301, a Hawker Siddeley Trident operated by CAAC Guangzhou Regional Administration from Guangzhou Baiyun to Hong Kong Kai Tak, ran off the runway in Hong Kong on 31 Augu…
CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
James Sheppard is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Vienna Capitals of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He previously played in the National Hockey Lea…
James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her f…
Lizzo, American singer and rapper
Semyon Aleksandrovich Varlamov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
Jonathan Ludovic Biabiany is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Antequera. Between 2008 and 2014, he was regarded as the fastest footballer in …
Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
The largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States took place in 1988. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spr…
Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
Vietnam Airlines Flight 831, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed in a rice field 6 kilometres N of Bangkok International Airport, while operating a flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bangkok, Tha…
Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, while on approach to Don Muang International Airport,…
Hurricane Gilbert was a large and extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season, which peaked as a Category 5 hurricane. The storm broug…
Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated…
Hurricane Gilbert was a large and extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season, which peaked as a Category 5 hurricane. The storm broug…
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in…
Juan Manuel Mata García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for A-League Men club Melbourne Victory. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder, but c…
Juan Mata, Spanish footballer
Alfred Hui Ting Hang is a Hong Kong singer. He rose to prominence as the eleventh-place finalist in the first season of The Voice. His debut studio album Departure Trilogy earned g…
Alfred Hui, Hong Kong singer
Taoufik Makhloufi is an Algerian athlete who specialises in middle-distance running. He became the 1500 metres Olympic champion at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. In 2…
Taoufik Makhloufi, Algerian athlete
Ko Younha, known mononymously as Younha, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. She began her career in 2004 in Japan, where she was nicknamed the "Oricon Comet" …
Younha, South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer
Andrew Peter Allen is an Australian cook, food critic and television presenter. He is notable for winning the fourth season of MasterChef Australia in 2012, and for being a judge o…
Andy Allen, Australian chef
Henri Namphy was a Haitian general and political figure who served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 Februa…
General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
The Magna Charta Universitatum is a two-page document produced by the University of Bologna and the European Rectors' Conference in 1988 in Bologna, Italy. It identifies key princi…
The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in…
The Anfal campaign, also known as the Kurdish genocide, was a counterinsurgency operation, described by many scholars and human rights groups as a genocide or ethnic cleansing, whi…
End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major…
The National League for Democracy is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar. It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victory in the 2015 genera…
The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988, and …
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.