✦ History

Explore November 6, 1980 – September 27, 1981

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12

People

Fernando Belaúnde age 68
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 56
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 55
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 71
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 44
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 62
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 49
President - Sudan
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 56
President - Argentina
Luís Cabral age 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 45
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 45
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 43
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 57
President - Ireland
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 74
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 47
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 34
President - Burundi
Hilla Limann age 45
President - Ghana
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 52
President - Marshall Islands
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 64
President - Burkina Faso
André Kolingba age 44
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 75
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 73
President - Singapore
Ahmed Abdallah age 61
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 67
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 64
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 48
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 42
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 54
President - Uruguay
Luis García Meza Tejada age 51
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 57
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 58
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 55
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 64
State President - South Africa
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 40
President - Ecuador
Haruo Remeliik age 47
President - Palau
Saye Zerbo age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 48
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Aparicio Méndez age 76
President - Uruguay
Goukouni Oueddei age 38
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 53
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 41
President - Ecuador
Anton Buttigieg age 68
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 56
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 46
President - Suriname
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 40
President - Mauritania
Abdus Sattar age 74
President - Bangladesh
Celso Torrelio age 47
President - Bolivia
Ieremia Tabai age 30
President - Kiribati
Georges-André Chevallaz age 65
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 62
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 44
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 40
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 47
President - Honduras
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Viktor Avbelj age 66
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 75
President - Dominica
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 62
President - Singapore
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 49
President - Bolivia
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 46
President - Bolivia
Saulo Musoke age 60
President - Uganda
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 57
President - Uganda
Gastone Pasolini age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mahathir Mohamad age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 56
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
Pierre Trudeau age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 47
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Adolfo Suárez age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Mauno Koivisto age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Prem Tinsulanonda age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 69
Chancellor - Austria
Babrak Karmal age 51
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Malcolm Fraser age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 44
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 61
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 42
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mark Eyskens age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 38
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
George Cadle Price age 61
Premier - Belize
Maurice Bishop age 36
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 50
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 43
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 60
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 80
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Georgios Rallis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 39
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Hussein Onn age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Cleopa Msuya age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 68
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Eric Williams age 69
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Julius Chan age 41
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 56
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 69
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 54
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Habib Thiam age 47
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 38
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 51
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 53
Prime Minister - Algeria
Peter Kenilorea age 37
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 42
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pen Sovan age 44
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Léon Mébiame age 46
Prime Minister - Gabon
Milton Cato age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Joseph Conombo age 63
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Kennedy Simmonds age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 49
Prime Minister - Philippines
Shah Azizur Rahman age 54
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 41
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Solomon Mamaloni age 37
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Edward Sokoine age 42
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mabandla Dlamini age 50
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 58
Prime Minister - Tonga
Hans Brunhart age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Shafik Wazzan age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Winston Cenac age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Peter Colotka age 55
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Nalumino Mundia age 52
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 36
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 37
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 33
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Salim Ben Ali age 62
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 49
Governor-General - Belize
Zelman Cowen age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 69
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 71
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 63
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 19
Donald Trump age 34
Michael Jackson age 22
Vladimir Putin age 28
Nelson Mandela age 62
George W. Bush age 34
Bill Gates age 25
Jimmy Wales age 14
Pope Francis age 43
Steve Jobs age 25
Angela Merkel age 26
Neil Armstrong age 50
François Hollande age 26
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 2
Gabriel García Márquez age 53
Mikhail Gorbachev age 49
Elon Musk age 9
Stephen Hawking age 38
Emmanuel Macron age 2
Benedict XVI age 53
Mother Teresa age 70
Hillary Clinton age 33
Kamala Harris age 16
Nicolas Sarkozy age 25
Richard Nixon age 67
Xi Jinping age 27
Naruhito age 20
Hugo Chávez age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 72
Muammar Gaddafi age 38
John Lennon age 40
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 26
Muhammad Ali age 38
Kofi Annan age 42
Charles III age 32
Osama bin Laden age 23
Lech Wałęsa age 37
Gerald Ford age 67
Leo XIV age 25
Diego Maradona age 20
Narendra Modi age 30
Rafael Correa age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi age 35