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1.7 November

• November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth
• November 21 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada kills 87 people.
• November 23 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

1.8 unknown dates

• Summer Olympic Games in Moscow USSR
• War begins between Iran and Iraq
• Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR
• NEC created the first successful digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710
• Comedian Richard Pryor gets badly burned trying to freebase cocaine
• SCART plug was made mandatory to all televisions sold in France.
• The Staggers Rail Act is passed deregulating American railroads.

2 Year in topic

• 1980 in film
  • Wednesday, May 21, 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
  • Friday, November 14, 1980 - Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese
  • Ordinary People
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Caddyshack
• 1980 in literature
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• 1980 in music
  • Monday, December 8, 1980 - Former Beatle John Lennon is shot and killed in front of his residence in New York City
• 1980 in sports
• 1980 in television
  • Thursday, February 14, 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from CBS Evening News.
  • Friday, October 24, 1980 - Australia's multicultural television network SBS begins transmission in Sydney and Melbourne
  • Tuesday, December 30, 1980 - After 25 years, the longest-running prime-time TV series The Wonderful World of Disney is cancelled by NBC.
  • CNN is launched as the first 24 hour a day news network.

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