In 1980, Grant Speed sculpted a statue of Holly playing his Fender guitar.

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

However, despite playing in the NFC Championship Game three consecutive years ( 1980 – 1982 ), the Cowboys did not reach the Super Bowl during the 1980s.

He started his career playing for the youth teams of Farul Constanța in the 1970s, before being selected by the Romanian Football Federation to join the squad of Luceafărul București in 1980 for two years.

* Leopold Auer, Violin playing as I teach it, Stokes, 1921 ( reprint Dover, 1980 ).

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

* Seneca Wallace ( born 1980 ), American football quarterback / wide receiver currently playing for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL

Founded in 1980, Toronto Ultimate Club based in Toronto, has 3300 members and 250 teams, playing year round.

By 1980, over 250 women were playing professionally, and the tour consisted of 47 global events, offering a total of $ 7. 2 million in prize money.

In 1980, he received wide critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind-the-scenes film The Stunt Man.

* Benjamin Salisbury ( born 1980 ), an American actor most well known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the television sitcom The Nanny

* Vive Targi Kielce ( Iskra Kielce ) men's Handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Men's Handball League, few times Champions and medalist of Poland ( winner in 1993 1994 1996 1998 1999 2003 and 2009, second places in 1995 2004, third places in 1980 1997 2001 2005 ).

Mansfield composed the music for the 1980 film Heaven's Gate — he appeared in the movie, playing the fiddle on roller skates — and has since gone on to write scores for a number of other films, including others directed by Heaven's Gate's Michael Cimino.

* Upon playing his last playoff game in 1980, he and teammate Gordie Howe became the last active players that had played in the 1950s.

* Al Harrington ( born 1980 ), professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.

* Dahntay Jones ( born 1980 ), professional basketball player, currently playing for the Sacramento Kings.

* Laura Prepon ( born 1980 ), actress best known for playing the character of Donna Pinciotti on That ' 70s Show and resides there when not working.

It is home to many shopping centers, strip malls, two supermarkets, the town's movie theater, known as Quinn Theaters ( 1980 ), gas stations, and fast food restaurants, playing off its close proximity to the US 23 Business exit off US 74 / 23 in Sylva.

Mifune received wider audience acclaim in the West than he ever had after playing Toranaga in the 1980 TV miniseries Shogun.

In 1980 – 1981 Logic also performed as a member of Red Crayola, as well as playing on recordings by The Raincoats and Swell Maps.

He made his Second Division debut for them in a 1 – 0 home win over Shrewsbury Town on 22 October 1980 and quickly established himself as an effective attacking midfielder, playing alongside Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion to the First Division at the end of 1983 – 84 season.

Aged fourteen, both made their senior grade cricket debut in 1979 – 1980, playing in the Fourth XI.

In 1980 Powell appeared in the film Harlequin playing the Harlequin of the title who seems to have the power to cure the son of a powerful politician.

Schneider starred in Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch ( La mort en direct, 1980 ) playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist ( Harvey Keitel ).

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.

* 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.

Monroe Schwarzlose of Kingsland in Cleveland County, polled 31 % of the vote against Clinton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1980.

In the 1980 elections he ran against the incumbent Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), but lost thereafter, as the SPD and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) managed to secure an absolute majority together, forming a Social-liberal coalition.

The largest home victory for the Bears came in a 61 – 7 result against the Green Bay Packers in 1980.

Steve Hassan, author of the book Combatting Cult Mind Control, states that he took part in a number of deprogrammings in the late 1970s, and has spoken out against them since 1980.

Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist physician, spoke out against FGM in 1980.

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.

In 1980, Julian Simon repeatedly challenged environmental scientists to bet against him on trends in prices of commodities, asserting that humanity would never run out of anything ... Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time ...

The first One Day International at the National Stadium was against the West Indies on 21 November 1980, with the match going to the last ball.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

On April 12, 1980, Doe led a bloody coup d ' état against president Tolbert, in which Tolbert and twenty-six of his supporters were murdered ; ten days later thirteen of Tolbert ’ s Cabinet members were publicly executed.

Whereas the 1980 and 1983 coup attempts against Gayoom's presidency were not considered serious, the third coup attempt in November 1988 alarmed the international community.

In 1980, Kahane was arrested for the 62nd time since his emigration and jailed for six months following a detention order based on allegations of planning armed attacks against Palestinians in response to the killings of Jewish settlers.

The Salvadoran Civil War from 1980 to 1992 involved Marxist-Leninist rebels fighting against El Salvador's right-wing government.

International law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets, but use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ( CCW ) in 1980.

When the NFL declined to approve the Raiders ' move from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1980, the team joined the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission in a lawsuit against the league alleging a violation of antitrust laws.

While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, George H. W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as " voodoo economics ".

During 1980, six years after Vangelis decided against joining Yes, he and Jon Anderson, the lead singer of Yes, released their first album together, Short Stories, under the band name of Jon & Vangelis.

After the crash, Hunt ( along with other drivers ) blamed Patrese for starting the accident, and viewers of Hunt's commentaries of Formula One races from 1980 – 1993 on BBC Television were regularly treated to bitter diatribes against Patrese when the Italian appeared on screen.

Bron also gave the premiere performance of The Yellow Cake Revue ( 1980 ), a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands.

In 1980, they were charged with " grave errors " in the struggle against the Gang of Four and demoted from the Political Bureau to mere Central Committee membership.

Wilson's Government took strong action against the controversial, self-styled " Church " of Scientology in 1967, banning foreign Scientologists from entering the UK, a prohibition which remained in force until 1980.