On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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As two tireless roosters fluttered and pecked at each other before an audience crammed into the steamy basement of a Lower East Side tenement, a spectator's laughter cut through the yells of those around him. "Oh, how I love los gallos," he shouted.
STOCKHOLM, March 23--Sweden voted today to support limited expansion of nuclear energy.
PANAMA, March 23--The deposed Shah of Iran left here aboard a chartered airliner for Cairo today, just 24 hours before Iran's revolutionary Government was due to present Panamanian authorities with a formal request for his extradition.
JONESVILLE, Va., March 21--Oil and gas deposits are being sought along hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Mountain chain where coal mining has dominated mineral extraction for a century and until recently their presence was considered a geologic impossibility.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 1980, covering March 24, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Linda Ronstadt
Rush
Heart
1980Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Ramzi Abid is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player of Tunisian descent, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Thrashers and the Nashville Predators.
1980Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player[†]
Andrew Thomas Hutchinson is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1980Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer[†]
Anastasios "Tasos" Venetis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1980Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)[†]
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.
1980El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.[†]
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]