Kamal Haasan's pairing with the actress Sridevi continued with Tamil classic Varumayin Niram Sigappu in 1980, where he played an unemployed youth.

Later that year, she was paired with Kamal Haasan in K. Balachander's Varumayin Niram Sivappu, which turned out to be a hit at the box office.

It was the Telugu remake of Varumayin Niram Sivappu.

In 2009, Sar-e-Pul Police Chief, Muhammad Bilal Niram said arms had been collected from any people and three districts, namely, Sangcharak, Gosfandi and Sozama Qala areas termed as the peaceful districts of the province.

The song Prayam Nammil .. from the film Niram brought him a third state award in 1998.

His fourth consecutive Filmfare award came with Sigappu Rojakkal, an anti-hero thriller in which he played a psychopathic sexual killer.

Sridevi continued to rise as a leading actress of the Tamil industry with Bharathi Raja's Sigappu Rojakkal opposite Kamal Haasan.

With the former, she was in movies such as Guru, Sankarlal, Sigappu Rojakkal, Thaayillamal Naan Illai, Meendum Kokila, Vazhvey Maayam, Neela Malargal, Moondram Pirai and 16 Vayathinile and with Rajnikanth, she appeared in movies such as Gayathri, Dharma Yuddham, Priya, Johnny, Ranuva Veeran, Pokkiri Raja, Thanikattu Raja, Adutha Varisu and Naan Adimai Illai.

* Johntá Austin ( born 1980 ), American singer-songwriter

* Austin Nichols ( born 1980 ), American actor

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

* William C. Rusch, The Trinitarian Controversy, ( Sources of Early Christian Thought ), 1980, ISBN 0-8006-1410-0

Ecrits sur l ' histoire ( 1969 ), reprinted essays ; translated as On History, ( 1980 ) excerpt and text search

* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player

* Adrian Iordache ( born 1980 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Jacobs ( born 1980 ), South African rugby player

* Adrian Sikora ( born 1980 ), Polish footballer

* Adrian Webster ( born 1980 ), New Zealand footballer

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

* Anastasio Somoza Debayle ( 1925 – 1980 ), Nicaraguan dictator ( ruled 1967 – 1979 )

* Andrei Amalrik ( 1938 – 1980 ), Soviet dissident

* Atmosphere ( Joy Division song ), a song by Joy Division, released in 1980 on the Atmosphere / She's Lost Control single, originally released in the same year as Licht und Blindheit

Abadan had suffered serious damages during Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), including Saddam's deadly chemical weapons.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

* Alexandra Stevenson ( born 1980 ), American tennis player

Brooks also made a cameo appearance in the film Private Benjamin ( 1980 ), starring Goldie Hawn.

Similarly, in Avery Corman's book The Old Neighborhood ( 1980 ), an upper-middle class white protagonist returns to his birth neighborhood ( Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse ), and learns that even though the folks are poor, Hispanic and African-American, they are good people.

* Sergiu Bar ( born 1980 ), Romanian footballer

Brazil's arms industry nearly collapsed after 1988, as a result of the termination of the Iran-Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), a reduction in world demand for armaments, and the decline in state support for the industry.

* Nicky Benz, a. k. a. for Nick Berk ( b. 1980 ), American wrestler

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980.

Return of the Secaucus 7 ( 1980 ) is a drama film written and directed by John Sayles.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People ( 1980 ) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

The Junction City Prison was the location for filming of the 1980 movie drama Brubaker starring Robert Redford.

* Atlantic City ( 1980 film ), a drama film

* The Calm ( Spokój TV drama 1980 )

She attended Blackheath High School from 1973 until 1980, before enrolling as a drama student at University of Manchester.

He worked on a kibbutz – an Israeli collective community – in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran in 1980.

* Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ( 1980 )-Fact-based drama

Potter later returned to similar territory with Blade on the Feather ( 1980 ), inspired by the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, although in this drama the protagonist Jason Cavendish ( Donald Pleasence ) is clearly modeled after Philby.

Laura Ruth Sadler ( 25 December 1980 – 19 June 2003 ) was an English actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC One hospital drama series Holby City playing the role for three years until her death on 19 June 2003.

Baio and Foster later worked together again in the 1980 teen girl drama Foxes, helmed by Adrian Lyne.

The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the climax and victory of the African American Civil Rights Movement ; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War ; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs ; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.

The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980.

A fictionalized version of the Operation Bernhard story was the topic of a comedy drama serial, Private Schulz, starring Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson, produced by the BBC in 1980.

In 1980, Malden starred in Skag, an hour-long drama that focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill.

In film, Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the drama film Ordinary People ( 1980 ).

* Resurrection ( 1980 film ), an American drama

Rampling gained recognition from American audiences in a remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely ( 1975 ) and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories ( 1980 ) and particularly in The Verdict ( 1982 ), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman.

* The Gentle Touch, ( 1980 – 1984 )-a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV.

In 1980 a silver Ford Capri 3. 0 S ( 342 ) was issued as a tie-in with the popular British television crime drama The Professionals featuring models of ' Bodie ', ' Doyle ' and ' Cowley ', as well as a 1957 Ford Thunderbird ( 348 ) from the American show Vega $ with ' Dan Tanna ' at the wheel.

Following the success of their version of Why Didn't They Ask Evans in 1980, The Seven Dials Mystery was adapted by London Weekend Television as a 140-minute drama and transmitted on Sunday, March 8, 1981.

On 28 December 1980, while the ITV network was showing Drake's Venture, Westward Television's two-hour filmed drama to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe ( starring John Thaw ), ITN broke into a commercial break to announce that ATV was to undergo major changes and Southern and Westward had not had their licences renewed by the IBA ; the south-west franchise was awarded to TSW ( Television South West ).

In 1980, Westward produced Maggie's Moor, a seven part networked children's drama series about a young girl living on Dartmoor during the Second World War.

These include Sidney Lumet, who shot the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) at Elstree ; Ken Russellwho had worked with Mitchell on his first feature, the comedy film French Dressing ( 1963 ) made the biographical film Valentino ( 1977 ) at Elstree ; Stanley Kubrick with his The Shining ( 1980 ); Mitchell's previous employer Fred Zinnemann with his drama film Julia ( 1977 ); and most significantly for the studio's survival through George Lucas with his epic space opera film Star Wars ( 1977 ).