Explore 1450 historical events from 1980–1989.
Andrea Marcato is an Italian rugby union coach and former international player. He won 16 caps for Italy and played in the 2008 and 2009 Six Nations Championships. After the end of…
Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
Joseph Patrick Mauer is an American former professional baseball catcher and first baseman who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Minnesota Twins.…
Joe Mauer, American baseball player
Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also repre…
Miranda Kerr, Australian model
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) are two species of Lentivirus that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progre…
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scienti
The Church Street bombing was a terrorist car bombing on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National C…
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pret
The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake occurred on May 26, 1983, at 11:59:57 local time. It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 1…
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Air Canada Flight 797 was an international passenger flight operating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Montréal–Dorval International Airport, with an intermediate st…
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
Gordon Wendell Kahl was an American World War II veteran, farmer and tax protester who was known for being a one-time member of the Posse Comitatus movement and for his involvement…
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, A
Tarvaris D'Andre Jackson was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Jackson played college football for the Arkansas Razorb…
Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (died 2020)
Kimberly Wall is an English former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2010 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. She also won ei…
Kim Wall, British sprinter
Sam W. Heads is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief a…
Sam W
Shkëlzen Shala is a Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur, gastronome and veganism activist based in Pristina, Kosovo.
Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
José Miguel Cabrera Torres, nicknamed Miggy, is a Venezuelan former professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and designated hitter who played 21 seasons in Major League …
Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
Leon Hougaard Andreasen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He won 20 caps and scored three goals for the Denmark national team.
Leon Andreasen, Danish international footballer
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA Tour title a…
Daniela Hantuchová, Slovak tennis player
Ian Henderson is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL. A Scotland international hooker, his brothers, Andrew Henderson a…
Ian Henderson, English rugby league player
Hanna Anatoliïvna Kasyanova is a Ukrainian heptathlete.
Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the National Rugby League (NRL). Thurston was an Australian international, Queens…
Johnathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player
DeAngelo Chondon Williams is an American professional wrestler and former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. He played college f…
DeAngelo Williams, American football player
José María "Pechito" López is an Argentine race car driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP. He is three-time World Touring Champ…
José María López, Argentinian racing driver
Jessica Dawn Lynch is an American teacher, actress, and former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a private first class.
Jessica Lynch, American soldier
Ariel Geltman Graynor is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Sopranos (2001), Fringe (2009–2010), Bad Teacher (2014), I'm Dying Up Her…
Ari Graynor, American actress and producer
Joshua Brookes is a professional road racer of motorcycles with experience of Superbike and Supersport racing, both domestically and internationally. For 2023, Brookes joined FHO R…
Josh Brookes, Australian motorcycle racer
Roger Johnson is an English football manager and retired footballer who was most recently manager at Brackley Town.
Roger Johnson, English footballer