* 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

Formally introduced in September 1979, Initial samples were released in February 1980, with production chips available over the counter in November.

Initial publicity generated was by the now-discredited autobiography Michelle Remembers ( 1980 ), and sustained and popularized throughout the decade by the McMartin preschool trial.

Initial discussions were held with double World Champion Niki Lauda and McLaren on the subject of a 1980 campaign, but the BMW board denied Neerpasch's request for the programme.

Initial deployment was aboard the cruiser Kirov ( now the Admiral Ushakov ) in 1980.

( 1980 ): The Initial Magdalenian in France.

The station first opened as Chater Station in Feb 10, 1980 as the terminus of the Modified Initial System ( MIS ).

On December 12, 1980, Apple launched the Initial Public Offering of its stock to the investing public.

and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food.

* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.

To match the USA's military buildup, the Soviet Union increased its own military spending to 27 % of its GDP and froze production of civilian goods at 1980 levels, causing a sharp economic decline in the already failing Soviet economy.

He pointed out that the Saudis decreased their production of oil in 1985 ( it reached a 16-year low ), whereas the peak of oil productionwas reached in 1980.

They increased the production of oil in 1986, reduced it in 1987 with a subsequent increase in 1988, but not to the levels of 1980 when production reached its highest level.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

Part of the crop was destroyed by hurricanes in 1979 and 1980, and 1979 – 80 production was only 670, 000 bags ( 40, 200 tons ).

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

* Robin Ellis in the 1980 Columbia Pictures Television production The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Oil production had reached a level of 560, 000 m³ ( 3. 5 million barrels ) per day, and oil revenues were 21 billion in 1979 and 27 G $ in 1980.

He reprised his role in the 1980 North American Tour production.

* 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford ; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture.

Tiffin's " twilight " remained in production from about 1950 to 1980.

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

This led to the production of shows including Logan's Run then there was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 – 1980 ).

In January 1980, the production of Hypnotised was finished at Eden Studios in London, with the Undertones recording the three further songs written the previous December, plus two further songs — " Hypnotised " and a cover of " Under The Boardwalk " — which had been written that month.

A similar twist was incorporated into a 1980 Australian production at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre in Sydney, where Lady Bracknell was played by female impersonator Tracey Lee.

In fact, it was the success of the compilation film, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie in 1980, featuring the archived film of these characters that prompted Warner Brothers to organize Warner Brothers Animation as a new production division to restart production of original material.

In 1980, David Jones revived the play for the RSC ; the production was in general a disappointment, although Judi Dench as Imogen received reviews that rivalled Ashcroft's.

Since the first production of Sesame Street Live on September 17, 1980, 48 million children and their parents have seen the show performed, across the world.