In 1980, after one such rainy winter, the normally dark blue Dead Sea turned red.

The team commonly wore light blue pants on the road with the white jerseys from 1972 through 1994, with the exception of the 1980 season, and selected games in the mid 80s, when the team wore an all-white road combination.

In January 1980, the team switched from wearing blue and white to their present-day scheme of black and gold to honor Pittsburgh's other sports teams, the Pirates and the Steelers, as well as the Flag of Pittsburgh.

points :( 360, 86 )( 370, 84 ) color: blue width: 2 # 1980: 1. 287. 440

points :( 360, 39 )( 370, 40 ) color: blue width: 2 # 1980: 3, 86

In January 1980, the Boston Bruins protested to the NHL over the Penguins proposed change in team colors, from blue and white to black and gold.

" Widespread adoption of the definition of a " blue moon " as the second full moon in a month followed its use on the popular radio program StarDate on January 31, 1980.

People saw blue moons in 1983 after the eruption of the El Chichón volcano in Mexico, and there are reports of blue moons caused by Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991

* 2006 – 07: Boston Bruins ( 1960s throwback ), Buffalo Sabres ( c. 1980 blue throwback, a white variant was used as a fourth in 2002 – 03 and was used for the AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic )

The first registered Australian Cattle Dogs to arrive in the United Kingdom were two blue puppies, Lenthal Flinton and Lenthal Darlot, followed in 1980 by Landmaster Darling Red in whelp.

In 1980, the logo was updated with the TV removed, and the WIN placed inside a blue rectange.

bar: Murray from: 01 / 15 / 1977 till: 05 / 24 / 1980 color: blue

bar: Murray from: 12 / 15 / 1979 till: 05 / 24 / 1980 color: blue

An additional three 80 ton cranes from Scotstoun Marine Ltd were dismantled and transferred to Govan after the Scotstoun yard closed in 1980 ; they remain distinctive due to their blue paintwork.

Illya Mate ( USSR, in red ) and Július Strnisko ( Czechoslovakia, in blue ) at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

* KC DESIGN Kingston Centre Logo for the period 1980 to 1997, " The drawing is lined for the colours red and blue.

Incomplete map of Olympic boycotts, showing the nations boycotting the 1980 games in blue.

In 1980, researchers discovered that the HY4 gene of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana was necessary for the plant's blue light sensitivity, and when the gene was sequenced in 1993, it showed high sequence homology with photolyase, a DNA repair protein activated by blue light.

Other models were a blue jersey with a red " T " on the chest ( worn during Tigre's run on Primera División in 1980 ), and the blue with red sleeves ( used for just one match in 1979 ).

He was introduced to the Dungeons & Dragons game ( with the red Basic Set and the blue Expert Set ) in 1980 by his cousin, and soon began playng the AD & D game.

As he ran to the square, he was joined on the road by many people, including National Hockey League star Darryl Sittler, who presented Fox with his 1980 All-Star Game jersey.

In July 1980 Sittler presented Terry Fox with his NHL All-Star Team jersey in Nathan Phillips Square in front of a crowd of over 10, 000 supporters.

His jersey number, 35, was retired during ceremonies after the 1980 season.

On May 1 of that year, his # 10 was the first jersey to be retired in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium, and it remained the only jersey retired by the school until 1980.

Dave Christian's jersey from the 1980 Winter Olympics on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame

In the 1980 Tour de France he won the Maillot blanc, or white jersey, for being the best young rider under 25, also placing 12th overall that year.

In this instance, there was a dosage of 562 during the first two hours and a total dosage of 1980 for the four-hour period, a four-fold increase.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

In the fall of 1980, she transferred to Vanderbilt University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Between 1980 to 1986, Sakharov was kept under tight Soviet police surveillance.

Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for " anti-Soviet activities ".

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

They later married on October 11, 1975, and their only child, Chelsea, was born on February 27, 1980.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.