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