Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It als…
Belize joins the United Nations.
Jaime Roldós Aguilera was an Ecuadorian politician who was the 33rd President of Ecuador from August 10, 1979 until his death on May 24, 1981. In his short tenure, he became known …
Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while t
Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. Located on the eastern bank of Wadi …
In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Ara
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Mini…
Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseud
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is a series of epidemiological science periodicals published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in
Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels. The franchise centers on the adv…
The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters
A five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland culminated in a hunger strike in 1981. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976 wh…
The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who was the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. A former member of the Free …
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic, success…
President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birth…
At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an im…
US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for he
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, subsonic, twin-engined stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works division and operated by the Unit…
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its fir
The Humber Bridge is a 2.22-kilometre single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. When it opened to traffic on 24 June 1981, it w…
The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through…
Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington
Dan-Air Flight 240 was a fatal accident involving a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 series 2A turboprop aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on the first stage of a night mail flig…
Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded PASOK, the Panhellenic Soc…
Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by…
The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is an independent agency of the United States government that governs labor relations between the federal government and its employees.
The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization…
Anestis Agritis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest organ when the national congress is not in se…
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our P
On 28 June 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-four leadin…
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party
On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 216. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete an…
A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114…
The Canadair CL-44 was a Canadian turboprop airliner and cargo aircraft based on the Bristol Britannia that was developed and produced by Canadair in the late 1950s and early 1960s…
A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an im…
In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of…
Maya Dunietz, is an Israeli musician and artist, combining a solo career with collaborations with renowned musicians: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, H…
Maya Dunietz, Israeli singer-songwriter and pianist