About the day » Thursday January 3, 1980Calender converter

• Adriana van der POEL (77)
• Cathalijntje Maria Versprille (100), Oostburg
• Arie Vingerling (93), Utrecht
• "Elie" Marie Charles Pierre Paul de Riquet de Caraman (55), Chimay, Belgique
• Adriana Jobina Barendse (74), Loosduinen
• Antoon Pepels (52), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham van der Helm (74), Noordwolde, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham van der Helm (74)
• Arthur McKenna (72), Westbury, Nassau, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Antoon (Toon) Pepels (52), Stein

• 1978 » Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
• 1978 » Dominic Wood, English comedian and former magician
• 1980 » Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 » Bryan Clay, American decathlete
• 1980 » David Tyree, American football player
• 1980 » Kurt Vile, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1980 » Mary Wineberg, American sprinter
• 1981 » Eli Manning, American football player
• 1982 » Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
• 1982 » Peter Clarke, English footballer

• 1972 » Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1975 » James McCormack, American general (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
• 1977 » William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 » George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 » Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)

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. Esther
8. Wendy
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 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• February 17 » First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
• May 17 » General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
• July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
• July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
• 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.

The temperature on January 3, 1980 was between -6.3 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.