* 1980 – Matthew Carey, American actor

* 1980 – Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper

* 1980 – Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish ski racer

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )

* 1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist

* 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress

* 1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer

* 1980 – Monique Ganderton, Canadian actress and stunt-woman

* 1980 – András Horváth, Hungarian footballer

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer, producer, and actor

* 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Texas Battle, American actor

* 1980 – Nuria Cabanillas, Canadian-Spanish gymnast

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

Most of the original societies were fully terminating, where they would be dissolved when all members had a house: the last of them, First Salisbury, was wound up in March 1980.

First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996.

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

* 1980 – First Rendlesham Forest incident

First published as Musicology ( London: Macdonald & Co. Ltd, 1980 ).

Burns identifies four successive main themes of the First Ladyship: as public woman ( 1900 – 1929 ); as political celebrity ( 1932 – 1961 ); as political activist ( 1964 – 1977 ); and as political interloper ( 1980 – 2001 ).

Lineker began scoring prolifically in the early 1980s, helping Leicester win promotion to the First Division in 1980 and again in 1983.

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The Iran – Iraq War ( also known as the First Persian Gulf War ) was an armed conflict between Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century.

However, the political process from Liberia's founding in 1847, despite widespread corruption, was very stable until the end of the First Republic in 1980.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

* Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ), the numbering of conflicts in Persian Gulf depends on whether this is called the First Gulf War, which would make the 1990 war the Second and the 2003 war the Third.

* Kennedy, David M., Over Here: The First World War and American Society ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 )

( Roux 1980 ) First use of copper in Middle East.

In California Retail Liquor Dealers Association v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc., 445 U. S. 97, 105 ( 1980 ), the Supreme Court established a two-part test for applying the doctrine: " First, the challenged restraint must be one clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed as state policy ; second, the policy must be actively supervised by the State itself.

The term Rolemaster First Edition ( RM1 ) is generally used to refer to the products released between 1980 and 1982, including the original versions of Arms Law, Claw Law, Spell Law, Character Law and Campaign Law.

* The First Impossible Quiz Book Ian Messiter ( Star, 1980 )

First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, circa 1980, not in terms of users, but rather of " compatible communicating devices " ( for example, fax machines, telephones, etc.

In 1980, David Jones ( director ), former Associate Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company chose to launch his new theatre company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ( BAM ) with The Winter's Tale starring Brian Murray supported by Jones ' new company at BAM In 1983, the Riverside Shakespeare Company mounted a production based on the First Folio text at The Shakespeare Center in Manhattan.

* In Jeffrey Archer's 1980 collection of short stories A Quiver Full of Arrows, one of the stories, " The First Miracle " tells of how a 12-year-old Pontius Pilate meets Joseph and Mary as they arrive in Bethlehem, and gives them the food that his mother had sent him to buy.

Their Women and Children First album was released in 1980 and further cemented Van Halen's status.

* Women and Children First ( 1980 )

Harris Building ( 1902 ), First Citizens Bank ( 1928 ), Sylva Fire Department ( 1980 ), all on Main Street, Roscoe Poteet Public Pool ( 1969 ) on Municipal Drive, the Hooper House ( 1906 ), the last remaining historic home on Main Street, and the Sylva First United Methodist Church ( 1917 ) on Jackson Street.