Explore 1450 historical events from 1980–1989.
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. Field Marshal Montgomery is recorded as saying that "without the Bailey bridge, we shou…
Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (born 1901)
Robert Sherman "Bob" Halperin, nicknamed "Buck", was an American business executive, decorated WWII naval officer and Star class yacht racer, who became an Olympic bronze medalist …
Robert Halperin, American yachtsman (born 1908)
Karl Julius Marx was a German composer and music teacher.
Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (born 1897)
Theodore Sturgeon was an American author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories,…
Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (born 1918)
Adolphus Jean Sweet was an American actor credited with nearly 60 television and film roles and more than 50 roles in stage productions, including performances on Broadway. He ofte…
Dolph Sweet, American actor (born 1920)
Eamon Joseph O'Brien, known professionally as Edmond O'Brien, was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he …
Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (born 1915)
Chester Gould was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and mo…
Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (born 1900)
Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
Leatrice Joy, American actress (born 1893)
Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Aw…
Richard Ellmann, American literary critic and biographer (born 1918)
Jackie Curtis was an American underground actor, singer, and playwright best known as a Warhol superstar. Primarily a stage actor in New York City, Curtis performed as a man and al…
Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer (born 1947)
Abe Burrows was an American writer, composer, humorist, director for radio and the stage, and librettist for Broadway musicals. His versatile career in radio, Broadway, and televis…
Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (born 1910)
Margaret Brainard Hamilton was an American character actress, vaudevillian and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theater, film, radio and television. She o…
Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional s…
Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (born 1901)
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, popularly known as M. R. Sarkar, was a Bangladeshi academic who served as the tenth vice-chancellor of the University of Rajshahi.
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, Bangladeshi academic (born 1928)
Wolfgang Reitherman, also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director and producer. As a member of the "Nine Old Men" at Walt Disney…
Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (born 1909)
Gaston Rébuffat was a French alpinist, mountain guide, and author. He is well known as a member of the first expedition to summit Annapurna 1 in 1950 and the first man to climb all…
Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (born 1921)
Richard Marius Joseph Greene was a noted English film and television actor. A matinée idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the lo…
Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (born 1918)
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an anarchist international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It opera…
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black-ball final, was played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The fina…
The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor
Black theology, or black liberation theology, refers to a Christian theological perspective that originated among African-American churchmen and scholars, and has since spread to m…
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
"Advance Australia Fair" is the national anthem of Australia. Written by Scottish-born Australian composer Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed as a patriotic song i…
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours
The Korean Martyrs were the victims of religious persecution against Catholics during the 19th century in Korea. Among them are 103 Saints and 124 Blesseds officially recognized by…
One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-l
Denis Lortie is a former Canadian Forces corporal. In 1984, he stormed into the Parliament Building in Quebec City and opened fire with several firearms, killing three government e…
Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13