1980

POLITICS and HISTORY Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States of America, after a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter... Zimbabwe achieves Black African majority rule. Robert Mugabe becomes the first Prime Minister. Mount St Helens erupted (Washington state, USA), 36 die Bjorn Borg defeats John McEnroe to win his fifth successive Wimbledon title the 22nd Olympic Games are held in Moscow, and are boycotted by over 50 nations War begins between Iraq and Iran when Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to gain control over Abadan and the Shatt al Arab waterway. MUSIC The Rose by Bette Middler...from the movie Don't Stand So Close To Me by The Police Fade to Grey by Visage Going Underground by The Jam I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division Rapture by Blondie Turning Japanese by The Vapors Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles TV and at the MOVIES The Dukes Of Hazzard (Those Good Ole Boys and the General Lee) Diff'rent Strokes (What you looking at Willis?) Soap , the bubbliest take off of all the soaps The Love Boat sailed through another season Dallas asked us 'who shot JR?' Battlestar Gallactica (I never watched that) Kramer vs Kramer won the Best Movie at the Oscars Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs Kramer) was Best Actor Sally Field (Norma Rae) was Best Actress The Empire Strikes Back told us who Luke's father really was Airplane! had us all laughing in the aisles People who died in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock (b.1899, film director) John Lennon (b.1940 musician, assassinated in New York) Peter Sellers (b.1925, British comedian) Mae West (b.1890, film actress) Steve McQueen (b.1930, actor) Jimmy Durante (b.1893, american comedian)

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