About the day » Monday January 28, 1980Calender converter

• Albertus Wilhelmus Johannes van Ringh, Groningen († 1999)
• girl-1 Denson, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington († 1980)
• Gentry George Woolem, Farmington, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Guido Xander VAN WILLIGENBURG, Leidschendam

• August Albert Vermeeren (61), Turnhout, België
• Charles Jacques Antonius Hendrikus van Rey (72), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Allert Heerema (61), Calgary (Canada)
• Barta Vinke (81), Kampen
• Annigje de Lange (83), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Areka van Buuren (94)
• Anne Olivier (71), Heemstede
• Cornelis Goos (89), Etten Leur
• Bertha Maria Veth (95), Papendrecht, Zuid Holland
• Anna Catharina Maria Baijens (58), Tilburg

• 1978 » Big Freedia, New Orleans musician, "Queen of Bounce"
• 1978 » Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1978 » Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
• 1978 » Stephen Farrelly, Irish professional wrestler
• 1980 » Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Michael Hastings, American journalist and author († 2013)
• 1980 » Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 » Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
• 1981 » Elijah Wood, American actor and producer

• 1971 » Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
• 1973 » John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Billy Fury. English pop star (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1986 » Space Shuttle Challenger crew
• 1988 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 » Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Peter
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. Michael
7. Martijn
8. David
9. Bart
10. Dennis
11. Paul
12. Richard
13. Robert
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Wouter

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Marieke
4. Linda
5. Kim
6. Jennifer
7. Wendy
8. Esther
9. Patricia
10. Jessica
11. Karin
12. Petra
13. Anna
14. Sarah
15. Monique
16. Johanna

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
• February 25 » The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
• April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
• May 9 » In Florida, Liberian freighter MVSummit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150ft. into the water and die.
• October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
• November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
• December 1 » Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.

The temperature on January 28, 1980 was between -2.7 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.