Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Yusuf Atılgan was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli. He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (born 1921)
Penny Lernoux was an American educator, author, and journalist. She wrote critically of United States government and Papal policy toward Latin America.
Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (born 1940)
Marion King Hubbert was an American geologist and geophysicist. He worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. He made several important contributions to geology, geophysic…
M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (born 1904)
Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., known professionally as Jay Ward, was an American animator and producer. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, al…
Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (born 1920)
Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav and Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedi…
Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)
Walter Farley was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), the success of which led to many sequel…
Walter Farley, American author and educator (born 1915)
Cornelius Louis Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker. His acting career began on Broadway in 1935, followed by small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s he…
Cornel Wilde, American actor (born 1912)
Imre Hajdú better known by his stage name Jean Image was a Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
James Henry Miller, better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was a British folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to Scottish p…
Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (born 1915)
Armida Vendrell was a Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian.
Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911)
Scott O'Dell was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including s…
Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (born 1898)
Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).…
Anthony Quayle, English actor and director (born 1913)
On October 22, 1989, Jacob Erwin Wetterling, an 11‑year‑old from St. Joseph, Minnesota, was kidnapped from his hometown and murdered later that night. His abductor's identity remai…
Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (born 1978)
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man to climb all 14 eight-thousander…
Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (born 1948)
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship wit…
Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (born 1912)
Henry Robert Hall was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.
Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (born 1898)
On June 30, 1989, a structure fire occurred at the Peachtree 25th Building, a high-rise office building in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The fire cau…
A building fire in Atlanta killed five people
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization formed in 1981.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member carried out a suicide attack by hijacking a bus and forcing it into a ravine near…
Moisés Giroldi Vera was a Panamanian military commander noted for his coup attempt against military leader Manuel Noriega in 1989. Giroldi was executed in the military barracks in …
Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chem…
Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
A gun turret is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim. A modern gun turret is generally a rotatable we…
A gun turret exploded on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa, killing 47 sailors
The April 26 Editorial was a front-page article published in People's Daily on April 26, 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests. The editorial effectively defined the student m…
An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which woul
The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado was an intense tornado that occurred in Manikganj District, Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. While it was destructive and extremely deadly, there is grea…
A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest torn
Severe Tropical Storm Cecil was a deadly and destructive typhoon that caused devastating floods in central Vietnam which killed 751 people in May of 1989. The storm developed as a …
Tropical Storm Cecil dissipated over Laos after devastating Quảng Nam province, Vietnam, and causing the deaths of 751 p