About the day » Sunday December 28, 1980Calender converter

• boy-1 Mowry († 1980)
• Bram Abels († 1983)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Antonia Reuvers, Oudenbosch

• Anton Kjos (87), Fairview Southdale Hospital, Minneapolis, Anoka County, Minnesota
• Ambrose Monroe Stidham (96), Norton
• Antonie Fidder (68), IJsselmuiden, Nederland
• Archibald Charles Johns (77), Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten
• catharina hubertina bruijnen (90), venlo
• Berendina PANNEKOEK (61), Canada, Canada
• Christina Alida ter Kuile (88), Velp (Gelderland)
• Albert Johan Ophof (70), Wageningen, Gld, Nederland
• Bastiana Scharp (83), Amstelveen
• Christina Alida (Christientje) Ter Kuile (88), Velp

• 1979 » Bill Hall, American baseball player
• 1979 » James Blake, American tennis player
• 1979 » Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
• 1979 » Senna Guemmour, German singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Zach Hill, American musician and artist
• 1980 » Lomana LuaLua, Congolese footballer
• 1980 » Ryta Turava, Belarusian race walker
• 1981 » Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American journalist
• 1981 » Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
• 1981 » Narsha, South Korean singer and dancer

• 1971 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1983 » Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1944)
• 1983 » William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Sam Peckinpah, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1986 » Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)
• 1986 » John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (b. 1916)
• 1989 » Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)

• 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.
• March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• May 27 » The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• July 5 » Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• 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.
• November 28 » Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)

The temperature on December 28, 1980 was between -3.6 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.