About the day » Monday June 9, 1980Calender converter

• Kristen Lynn Klyve, Pope, MN
• Pieter Miske, Pretoria, Suid Afrika († 1983)

• Bernardus Theodorus Schut (93)
• Arie Zeeman (74)
• Emilie Mathilde Nowak (66), Soest, Nederland
• Cornelia Heikoop (85), Buurmalsen
• Adrianus Roelof Hakkert (70), Tricht
• Dina Willemina Nijhuis (69), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Cornelis Krijn Goudzwaard (70), Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland
• Elaine J. Oakley (64), Saint Johns, Florida, United States
• Emile François Léon Joseph Carpentier (64), Braine-l'Alleud, Belgique
• Elisabeth Smit (92), Giethoorn, Nederland

• 1978 » Matt Bellamy, English singer, musician and songwriter
• 1978 » Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1978 » Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
• 1979 » Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
• 1979 » Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
• 1980 » D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1980 » Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
• 1980 » Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 » Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
• 1981 » Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress

• 1972 » Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
• 1973 » John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
• 1981 » Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
• 1989 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)

• 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.
• January 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• January 21 » Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.
• March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• May 5 » Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• May 17 » On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.

The temperature on June 9, 1980 was between 10.0 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.