Explore 3174 historical events from 1980–1989.
Lynd Kendall Ward was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using woodcuts, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless nove…
Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (born 1905)
Haruo Ignacio Remeliik was the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981 until his assassination on 30 June 1985. He is buried at Kloulklubed in his home state of Peleliu. Remelii…
Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (born 1933)
Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs a…
Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1893)
Phil Foster was an American actor and performer, best known for his portrayal of Frank DeFazio in Laverne & Shirley.
Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (born 1913)
Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois, was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film ...Sans laisser d'adresse won the Golden Bear (Comedie…
Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Charlotte was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 14 January 1919 until her abdication on 12 November 1964. Her reign is the longest of any Luxembourgish monarch since 1815 when the c…
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1896)
James Patrick Kinnon, commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.", was one of the primary founders of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), a worldwide fellowship of recovering addicts. Dur…
Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-American activist, founded Narcotics Anonymous (born 1911)
Fernando Pereira was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmenta…
Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (born 1950)
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Lite…
Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Harold Wayne King was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader with a long association with both NBC and CBS. He was referred to as "the Waltz King" because much of his mos…
Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1901)
Janusz Andrzej Zajdel was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem. His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. His main recu…
Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (born 1938)
Johnny Wardle was an English spin bowling cricketer whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957. His Test bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any rec…
Johnny Wardle, English cricketer and manager (born 1923)
Ezechiele "Lele" Ramin, MCCJ was an Italian Comboni missionary and artist. He was described as a martyr of charity by Pope John Paul II after his murder in Brazil while defending t…
Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (born 1953)
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American professional baseball player for 14 years. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1908 to 1915, where he was primarily a pitcher, a…
Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decis…
Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (born 1919)
Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending clas…
Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS patient in the U
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
Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He…
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
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
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. It also denotes identity based on attraction, related behavior…
Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales
Teddy Blass is an American film composer and record producer.
Teddy Blass, American composer and producer