About the day » Wednesday March 12, 1980Calender converter

• Meshach Mugabe Myles, Cayman Islands († 2020)
• Malinche Baertsoen
• Luana Kerseboom († 2021)
• Luana Kerseboom, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)

• Anne Lucille Patrick (69), Griffin,Spalding County,GA
• Aaltje Nienhuis (90), Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland
• cornelia joosse (82), borssele
• Abraham van Dueren den Hollander (83)
• Arie Pieter Groeneveld (69), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Constantijn Caesar Hugo Wolterbeek (65), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Rita Irène Heyligen (27), 3000 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabent, BE
• Aaldert Schipper (94), Dwingeloo
• Aaffiena Johanna Boelman (86), Groningen
• Anna Henderika Kugel (79), Leens

• 1979 » Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
• 1979 » Gerard López, former Spanish footballer
• 1979 » Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
• 1979 » Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
• 1979 » Rhys Coiro, American actor
• 1979 » Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
• 1980 » Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
• 1980 » Césinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)

• 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 22 » Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
• March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
• May 18 » Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3billion in damage.
• July 30 » Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• 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 March 12, 1980 was between 2.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 16.0 mm of rain during 12.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.