1980

1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: people welcoming six freed hostages back to the United States, as a result of the " Canadian Caper "; the 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow , Soviet Union in what is now Russia ; Pac-Man is released in the arcades becoming the highest-earning arcade game of all time; Iraq invades Iran initiating the Iran-Iraq War ; students of Gwangju , South Korea uprise in response to the coup d'état of May Seventeenth; John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman outside his New York City apartment; Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna , Italy is bombed killing 85 and injuring 200; Mount St. Helens erupts killing approximately 57 people.
July 10 : Fire at Alexandra Palace
Moscow Olympic Games on August 2, 1980
December 8 : The former Beatles member and peace activist John Lennon is shot dead outside his home in New York.