1980

• Air Supply - “All Out of Love”
• Barbra Streisand - "Woman in Love"  
• Billy Joel - "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me"  
• Blondie - "Call Me"
• Captain & Tennille - "Do That To Me One More Time"
• Christopher Cross - "Sailing"  
• Diana Ross - "Upside Down"  
• KC & The Sunshine Band - “Please Don’t Go” 
• Kenny Rogers - "Lady"  
• Lipps Inc - "Funkytown"  
• Michael Jackson - "Rock With You"  
• Neil Diamond - “Love on the Rocks” 
• Olivia Newton-John - "Magic"  
• Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
• Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"  
• Queen - “Another One Bites the Dust”  
• Rupert Holmes - “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” 

• The Empire Strikes Back
• 9 to 5
• Stir Crazy
• Airplane!
• Private Benjamin
• The Coal Miner's Daughter
• Smokey and the Bandit II
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Blues Brothers

• The Lone Ranger
• Too Close For Comfort
• Magnum, P.I.
• Richie Rich
• Bosom Buddies
• Flo

• Spider-Woman
• Hawaii Five-O
• Hollywood Squares
• The $20,000 Pyramid
• The Rockford Files

• Dallas
• Dukes of Hazard
• M*A*S*H
• The Love Boat
• The Jeffersons
• Alice
• Three's Company
• Little House on the Prairie
• Magnum, PI
• Happy Days
• Fantasy Island
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Laverne & Shirley
• CHiPS
• The Facts of Life
• The Waltons

• Kim Kardashian - reality star, "Keeping up with the Kardashians"
• Channing Tatum - movie actor, in "21 Jump Street"
• Nick Cannon - tv actor, host of "America's Got Talent"
• Randy Orton - wrestler, youngest person to hold the WWE Heavyweight Champion at age 24
• TI - rapper, "Top Back", "U Don't Know Me"; also actor, in "Ant-Man"
• Ryan Gosling - movie actor, in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "The Notebook"
• Christina Aguilera - pop star, "Genie in a Bottle"; judge on "The Voice"
• Macaulay Culkin - movie actor, in "Home Alone"
• Rebel Wilson - movie actress, in "Pitch Perfect"
• Kristen Bell - TV actress, in "Veronica Mars" and "The Good Place"
• Chris Pine - movie actor, in "Star Trek" movies
• Jake Gyllenhaal - movie actor, in "Evererest" and "Day After Tomorrow"
• Zooey Deschanel - TV actor, in "New Girl"

• Post-It Notes
• Rubik's Cube
• CNN
• Marathon of Hope
• Pac-Man arcade game
• Sony Walkman introduced in the U.S. -  the first truly portable player for recorded music.

• air guitar
• bird flu
• bitmap
• chill out
• comb-over
• dis
• Euro
• flatline
• foodie
• homeschool
• home video
• jaw-dropping
• macchiato
• one-trick pony
• post-traumatic stress disorder
• veg out
• voice mail
• yuppie
• ziplock

May 18 - Mount St. Helens located in Washington state, erupts, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage. It blasted 1,300 ft off it's top that sent hot mud, gas and ashes running down it's slopes. The explosion sent plumes of dark gray ash some 60,000 feet in the air which blocked out the rays from the sun making it seem like night over eastern Washington. 

December 8: Popular musician and former Beatles member John Lennon was shot and killed by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman outside of Lennon’s apartment in Manhattan at the age of 40. Lennon had given an autograph to Chapman earlier in the day and was returning home from a recording studio with his wife Yoko Ono at the time of the attack. 

The Rubik’s Cube puzzle toy debuts internationally during January at a toy fair in London. The toy had been created by Erno Rubik in the 1970s and was first patented as the “Magic Cube” in Hungary in 1975. After its introduction in early 1980, the Rubik’s Cube hit toy stores in May of that year. By the following year it was a huge success causing a worldwide craze. 

CNN (Cable News Network) founded by Ted Turner, began broadcasting on June 1st. It was the first 24-hour news network available in the United States and Canada and has since become available worldwide. 

Post-It notes are officially introduced to U.S. stores during April. The product was created by the 3M corporation in 1974 by scientists Spencer Silver and Art Fry. Silver had created the adhesive earlier and Fry came up with the idea to use the adhesive on a note. The notes were then market tested in 1978 under the name “Press n’ Peel.” By 1980, interest in the product increased and they were officially added to shelves in stores across the country.

Lake Placid Winter Olympics: February 22 - the U.S. Team defeated the four-time gold medal winning team from the Soviet Union in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The Soviet team had not lost a single Olympic hockey game since 1968, but the Americans amazingly beat them with a score of 4-3 and continued on to the final match, winning again against Finland. 

American speed skater Eric Heiden won all five speed skating events from 500m all the way up to 10,000m, setting an Olympic record in every one. He became the first person in Olympic history to win five gold medals in individual events at the same Games.

On April 12, Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope run across Canada in support of cancer research. On September 1, he was forced to end his run outside Thunder Bay when the cancer spread to his lungs. His hopes of overcoming the disease and completing his marathon ended when he died nine months later.