** Song: " Enola Gay "

** The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb " Little Boy ," the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

** Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress

** Marcia Gay Harden, American actress

** The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ( which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival ).

** Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster

** Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a New York City non-profit organization commonly known as the Center

** The Gay Deception-Stephen Avery, Don Hartman

** The Gay Divorcee-Carl Dreher

** Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston

** The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay

** Trotters: Gay Belwin

** Ovid in Masquerade (" by Mr. Joseph Gay "-part of Curll's continuing battle with John Gay )

** Me and My Girl – Book and lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, music by Noel Gay.

** The Gay Hussars – New York, 1909 ( American version of Tatárjárás )

** Gay bashing

** Stephanie Gay de László married 1978 Roger Stanley Williams

** The Constitutional Court of South Africa strikes down the country's sodomy law in National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v Minister of Justice and Others ; the decision applies with retroactivity to April 27, 1994, the day on which the Interim Constitution came into force.

** Ana Simo, South Africa: Apartheid Military Forced Gay Troops Into Sex-Change Operations, The Gully, August 25, 2000

** Gay icon, an LGBT cultural icon

** Gay Genius, edited by Annie Murphy ( Sparkplug )

** Me and My Girl – Noel Gay ( music ), L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber ( lyrics )

** Runners-up ( 2 ): 1980, 2006

** Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer announced in 1980

** 1972-73, 1974 – 75, 1976 – 77, 1977 – 78, 1980 – 81, 1981 – 82

** 1980 Golden Hawk

** 1980 – 198?

** 1980 – 1983 Laredo

** Talpiot Tomb, discovered in 1980, subject of the controversial documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus

** 1980: Convention Award

** Name: 80th birthday of President Kekkonen, issued: 03. 09. 1980, designed by Eeva Oivo

** Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan ( d. 1980 )

** Marshall Reed, American film and television actor ( d. 1980 )

** Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic Archbishop ( d. 1980 )

** Tex Avery, American cartoonist ( d. 1980 )

** Helmut Käutner, German actor and director ( d. 1980 )

** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor ( d. 1980 )

** Jesse Owens, American athlete ( d. 1980 )

** Moultrie Kelsall, Scottish film and television actor ( died 1980 )

** Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist ( died 1980 )

** Bon Scott, Australian rock singer ( AC / DC ) ( d. 1980 )

** Tim Hardin, American musician ( d. 1980 )

** U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

** Pascual Jordan, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

** Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran ( d. 1980 )

** Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

** Ian Curtis, English rock musician ( Joy Division ) ( d. 1980 )