* 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

Raymond Victor Franz ( May 8, 1922 – June 2, 2010 ) was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 20 October 1971 until 22 May 1980, and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980.

In reaction to this report, the UK government banned anyone who had received a blood transfusion since January 1980 from donating blood.

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California ; publication dates as listed in the 93. 1 ( 1993 ) edition: 1980 – 84, 1987, 1990 – 93

Psychiatrists August Piper and Harold Merskey have challenged the trauma hypothesis, arguing that correlation does not imply causation-the fact that people with DID report childhood trauma does not mean trauma causes DID — and point to the rareness of the diagnosis before 1980 as well as a failure to find DID as an outcome in longitudinal studies of traumatized children.

This produced a report in 1980, which called for drastic changes in the global attitude towards development in the Third World.

The final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, published on 28 August 2003, revealed that while the majority of the atrocities committed between 1980 and 1995 were the work of Shining Path, the Peruvian armed forces were also guilty of having destroyed villages and murdered countryside inhabitants whom they suspected of supporting insurgents.

In 1980 the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency filed a report stating that Iraq had been actively acquiring chemical weapons capacities for several years, which later proved to be accurate.

In 1980, ABC's 20 / 20 aired an investigative report about Lifespring.

The House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights began hearings on FBI undercover operations in March 1980 and concluded with a report in April 1984.

* Society of Thames Mudlarks-A modern organisation founded in 1980 the Society of Thames Mudlarks, has a special licence issued by the Port of London Authority for its members to search the Thames mud for treasure and historical artifacts and report their finds to the Museum of London.

Other major customers included Sandia Labs, General Dynamics, BBN ( featured on the cover of their annual report in 1980 as the C. A. T.

On August 17, 1980, a United Church of Canada task force released In God's Image, its report on sexual ethics which recommended the admission of homosexuals into the ministry and tolerance of premarital sex.

* President of UNESCO's International Commission for the Study of Communications Problems, which produced the controversial 1980 MacBride report.

Established in 1980 by the Niskayuna Community Action Program ( N-CAP ) in response to a school district report on mental health needs, " Niska-Day " is traditionally celebrated on the second Saturday of May.

As cited in a report by Phillips, Hager and North, the U. S. Office of the Federal Housing Oversight ( OFHEO ) reported overall declines in real estate prices of between 10 % and 15 % from 1980 through 1985, the years of the NEP .< ref name =" phn_a "> Phillips, Hager and North Investment Management Ltd. “ North American Real Estate: Bubble Trouble ?” June 24, 2004. p. 1 Chart 1: U. S. Real House Prices ( Indexed to 1975

On 22 September 1980, Procter and Gamble recalled Rely following release of the CDC report.

In 1980, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence received a report that the Pugwash Conference was used by Soviet delegates to promote Soviet propaganda.

* Paul Fiddes, Charismatic renewal: a Baptist view: a report received by the Baptist Union Council with commentary ( London: Baptist Publications, 1980 )

Numerous studies done between the 1980 and 1994 report that lesbian relationships have higher overall rates of interpersonal aggression ( including psychological aggression / emotional abuse ) than heterosexual or gay male relationships.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the implementation of the present resolution before 15 November 1980 ;

In 1985, under FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, the FCC released a report stating that the doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

The use of octrees for 3D computer graphics was pioneered by Donald Meagher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, described in a 1980 report " Octree Encoding: A New Technique for the Representation, Manipulation and Display of Arbitrary 3-D Objects by Computer ", for which he holds a 1995 patent ( with a 1984 priority date ) " High-speed image generation of complex solid objects using octree encoding "

It's simply laughable. In 1980 the central Organisation Department finally allowed Li Lisan's family to read his autopsy report ; this listed his height incorrectly by 15 cm and contained other errors which added to the family's doubts over the accepted version of Li's death.

Working with President Carter and the U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Patricia Derian, he marshalled the then-dormant Inter-American Commission on Human Rights into investigations inside repressive regimes like his own country's, the Argentine military junta ; after looking into allegations of widespread political murders and kidnappings in September 1979, the commission's 1980 report removed any doubts as to the state of freedoms in the country at the time, and helped lead to an improvement in the climate of civil liberties.

Pressler is noted for being possibly the only member of Congress to flatly refuse to take a bribe from undercover FBI agents and then to report the bribe attempt to the FBI during the Abscam investigations in 1980.