1980 in the United Kingdom

1980 in the United Kingdom:
Other years
1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982
Individual countries of the United Kingdom
England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Sport, Television and music

Events from the year 1980 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Publications

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

References

  1. "1980: Steel workers strike over pay". BBC News. 2 January 1980. Archived from the original on 5 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  2. "Soccer probe police look at TV film". Evening Times (Glasgow). 1980-01-30. p. 11. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  3. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Penguin Pocket on This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. "1980: Britain will go to Moscow Olympics". BBC News. 25 March 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  5. 7.0 7.1 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century,.,. Ltd. pp. 443–444. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. "1980: SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege". BBC News. 5 May 1980. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  7. "1980: Peach death was 'misadventure'". BBC News. 27 May 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  8. "1980: Government announces missile sites". BBC News. 17 June 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  9. "1980: Gunbattle at British embassy in Iraq". BBC News. 19 June 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  10. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 288. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
  11. "Soho Club 1980". London Fire Journal. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  12. "Two million – before it gets rough". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  13. "1980: Famous gem grabbed in armed raid". BBC News. 11 September 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  14. "1980: Missing Scottish bear is found". BBC News. 13 September 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  15. The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 393. ISBN 1-85585-178-4.
  16. "1980: Thatcher 'not for turning'". BBC News. 10 October 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  17. "1980: Pope welcomes Queen to the Vatican". BBC News. 17 October 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  18. "1980: Michael Foot is new Labour leader". BBC News. 10 November 1980. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  19. "1980: John Lennon shot dead". BBC News. 8 December 1980. Archived from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  20. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980". Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  21. "UFO files: Rendlesham Forest incident remains Britain’s most tantalising sighting". The Telegraph. June 21, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
  22. "1980: Green light for breakfast television". BBC News. 28 December 1980. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  23. Marr, Andrew (2007). A History of Modern Britain. London: Macmillan. p. 434. ISBN 978-1-4050-0538-8.

See also