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1980 in American television

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The year 1980 involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in the United States.

Events

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Date Event
January 1 In Dayton, Ohio, the decade begins with an affiliation swap between NBC affiliate WDTN and ABC affiliate WKEF-TV; the swap is reversed in 2004.
January 25 Black Entertainment Television launches in the United States as a block of programming on the USA Network; it won't be until 1983 that BET becomes a full-fledged channel.
February 1 After 29 years on the air, the soap opera Love of Life airs its 7,316th and last episode on CBS.
February 3 Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours, a two-part six-hour retrospective of Bob Hope's more than 30 years of entertaining at military bases and hospitals in the U.S. and abroad, airs on NBC.
February 4 On CBS, The Young and the Restless airs its first one-hour long episode.
February 8 Eric Braeden makes his first appearance as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.
February 11 CBS broadcasts a very special episode of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati about the real life deadly gate-rushing incident that occurred at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979 prior to a performance by The Who.
February 14 On CBS, Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the CBS Evening News, which takes effect in March 1981.
February 22 ABC Sports announcer Al Michaels delivers his now immortal line "Do you believe in miracles?! Yes!" in the closing moments of the Winter Olympic medal-round men's ice hockey game between the United States team and the heavily favored Soviet team.
February 24 Polly Holliday makes her final appearance as Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on Alice. Holliday would continue playing Flo in the character's own spin-off, which aired on CBS for two seasons.
March 16 The first regularly scheduled use of closed captioning on American network television occurs on ABC, with captions of spoken dialogue added to programming received through a decoding unit attached to a standard TV set.[1] The first broadcast to use it was the 1977 movie Semi-Tough.
March 21 On the season finale of Dallas on CBS, J. R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?".
March 24 The late night ABC News program The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage is officially rechristened as Nightline.
March 24 WCGV-TV signs on the air as an independent station in Milwaukee. It went on to affiliate first with Fox in 1987, then to UPN in 1995 and finally MyNetworkTV in 2006. It was shut down in 2018.
March 31 In Jacksonville, Florida, NBC affiliate WTLV, in search of stronger programming, swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WJKS. The swap will be reversed in 1988.
April 5 Hawaii Five-O airs its series finale on CBS.
April 7 The Oldest Living Graduate, a live drama on NBC, is broadcast; the first such program on the network since 1962. The production is aired from Southern Methodist University and stars Henry Fonda, George Grizzard, and Cloris Leachman.
April 9 The Madison Square Garden Sports Network is officially rechristened as the USA Network.
April 11 WMDT in Salisbury, Maryland signs on, giving the Delmarva Peninsula market its first full-time ABC affiliate. It also takes WBOC-TV's secondary NBC affiliation, leaving WBOC-TV as a full-time CBS affiliate.
April 19 Actor Strother Martin guest hosts an episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live in what turns out to be his final television appearance prior to his death on August 1, 1980.
April 29 The NFL draft is televised for the first time on ESPN.
May 6 Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham) and Donny Most (Ralph Malph) leave the cast of ABC's Happy Days as regulars, following the episode "Ralph's Family Problem". When Happy Days returns in the fall, Henry Winkler (The Fonz) is given top billing in the opening credits.
May 10 Al Franken delivers his "A Limo for a Lame-O" commentary on Saturday Night Live. During the Weekend Update segment, Franken attacked network president Fred Silverman for NBC's poor showing in the Nielsen ratings during his tenure.
May 11 The Return of the King, an animated adaptation of the third and final volume of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, airs on ABC after a legal challenge filed by the Tolkien Estate and Fantasy Films was settled.[2]
May 24 NBC airs The Not Ready For Prime Time Players' final episode on Saturday Night Live, after five seasons.
CBS broadcasts Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals[3] between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Islanders.[4][5] The Saturday afternoon game is the first full American network telecast of an NHL game since Game 5 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals aired on NBC, and the last NHL game on American network television until NBC televises the 1990 All-Star Game.[6][7]
June 1 The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
June 20 Hollywood Squares presents its 3,536th and final network telecast on NBC, ending a 14-year daytime run; it remains the second-longest-running daytime game show in the network's history, behind the original 1958–73 run of Concentration. Two other NBC game shows, High Rollers and Chain Reaction, end their runs on this date as well.
Vanna White makes her first appearance on a game show via The Price Is Right, in which she was among the first four contestants.[8][9] She did not make it onstage, but the clip of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as part of The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special in August 1996[10] and also was featured on the special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.
June 23 The David Letterman Show debuts on NBC. Letterman's humor does not go over well with a morning audience, and the show is canceled in October. Letterman would stay at NBC and go on to host a late night show on the network two years later.
June 30 The ABC game show Family Feud moves from airing at 11:30 am ET to 12:00 noon. It is one of the few network daytime shows to survive at noon, a time slot where many stations preempt network fare for local news broadcasts.
July 4 The Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA launch a three-month strike against television and movie studios. The strike greatly delays US networks' fall seasons (some shows don't see their fall debuts until late October or November, if not much later), and prompts a union boycott of the 1980 Emmy Awards in September. The unions would ratify a new deal on October 25 to officially end the strike.
August 1 Ending a failed experiment, the NBC soap opera Another World airs its last regularly scheduled ninety-minute episode. The show returns to sixty minutes on August 4, allowing room for a spin-off, Texas, based around Beverlee Mckinsey's Another World character, Iris Cory Carrington.
The 24/7 cable movie network Cinemax launches.
August 28 Joan Lunden makes her debut as co-host of ABC's Good Morning America alongside David Hartman. Lunden, who was succeeding Sandy Hill, would remain on the program through 1997.
September 1 In Atlanta, Georgia, long-time NBC affiliate WSB-TV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WXIA-TV, citing a stronger affiliation (at the time, NBC is in last place among the three major networks). Over the summer, in preparation for the switch, both stations had conducted an experiment unusual for a market Atlanta's size: WXIA-TV aired NBC's daytime programs in the morning and ABC's afternoon programs, and vice versa for WSB-TV.
September 7 The Primetime Emmy Awards air on NBC. The ceremony was held while a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild was in progress; in a show of support for their union, 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotted the event.[11] Powers Boothe was the only nominated actor to attend.
September 15–19 The five–part historical drama miniseries Shōgun is broadcast on NBC.
September 28 The PBS documentary Cosmos, hosted by legendary astronomer Carl Sagan, premieres. It deals with scientific topics like biology, chemistry, and linguistics, but primarily focuses on astronomy, Sagan's field of study.
October 4 Bob Costas[12][13] makes his debut calling Major League Baseball games for NBC. It was a backup game (the primary game involved the Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos) involving the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers from Yankee Stadium.
October 20 Piedmont Triad independent station WGNN-TV changes its name to WJTM-TV following its purchase by TVX Broadcast Group, to avoid confusion with WGN-TV.
October 26 KOKI-TV signs on the air as an independent station in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
October 28 Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter participate in their sole presidential debate. It was the most watched presidential debate until 2016.
November 2 The CBS comedy Archie Bunker's Place begins its season with the episode "Archie Alone", in which Archie Bunker grieves over the death of wife Edith (prompted by Jean Stapleton's departure from the series). Carroll O'Connor's performance in this episode earns him a Peabody Award.
November 15 Saturday Night Live premiers its sixth season on NBC with a new cast and new writers under the reins of Lorne Michaels' replacement Jean Doumanian, to widespread negative reviews.
November 18 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (Barbara, Louise and Irlene Mandrell) makes its debut on NBC, with a special guest appearance by Dolly Parton. The show was the last variety show on network TV with over 40 million viewers.
The start of Season 6 of the ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley sees the titular characters relocating from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Burbank, California after losing their brewery jobs.
Suzanne Somers makes her final "full" appearance in an episode of the ABC sitcom Three's Company. Her remaining seven appearances would be cameos in the episode's closing tag in which Chrissy would call from her parents' home in Fresno to speak with Jack or Janet, who would sometimes fill Chrissy in on what happened in the episode.
November 19 CBS bans a controversial Brooke Shields Calvin Klein Jeans ad because, according to CBS, the commercial was ‘too suggestive.’ The ad featured the 15-year-old Shields saying: ‘You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.’
Nancy McKeon makes her debut as Jo Polniaczek in the Season 2 premiere of The Facts of Life on NBC.
November 20 Donna Mills makes her first appearance as the villainous Abby Cunningham on the CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing.
November 21 The mystery of "Who Shot J.R.?" is solved on Dallas; the revelation that Sue Ellen Ewing's sister Kristin Shepard (played by Mary Crosby) was responsible draws a record number of viewers.
November 22 Eddie Murphy made his first Saturday Night Live appearance, appearing in a non-speaking role in the sketch "In Search Of The Negro Republican".
WPDE-TV in Florence, South Carolina signs on, giving the Pee Dee market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
November 30 Tanya Roberts joins the cast of Charlie's Angels (replacing the departed Shelley Hack) for what would be its final season.
December 8 On ABC, Howard Cosell announces the murder of former Beatle John Lennon in the closing seconds of a Monday Night Football game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots. NBC also reports the murder of Lennon, interrupting The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for a news bulletin.
December 20 NBC Sports broadcasts the New York Jets 24–17 season-ending victory over the Miami Dolphins without announcers, the only time that has ever been done with an NFL game.
December 24 WVGA in Valdosta, Georgia signs-on the air and targets the neighboring Albany market, giving that market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
December 30 After 26 years on the air, 20 of which were on NBC, the network announces that the long-running anthology Disney's Wonderful World will not be on its fall 1981 schedule; however, the show will be picked up by CBS.

Programs

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Debuting this year

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Date Show Network
January 6 Skag NBC
January 14 3-2-1 Contact PBS
Chain Reaction NBC
January 22 Goodtime Girls ABC
January 27 Galactica 1980 ABC
February 5 Mystery! PBS
March 1 Pink Lady NBC
March 3 That's Incredible! ABC
March 4 The Big Show NBC
March 5 Beyond Westworld CBS
March 11 United States NBC
March 15 Sanford
March 22 Me and Maxx
The Tim Conway Show CBS
March 24 Flo
The Stockard Channing Show
April 10 Top Rank Boxing ESPN
April 11 Fridays ABC
May 5 America's Top 10 Syndication
June 1 Moneyline WTBS/CNN
TBS Evening News
June 26 Nobody's Perfect ABC
August 4 Texas NBC
August 9 That's My Line CBS
August 21 Games People Play NBC
September 6 Livewire Nickelodeon
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show CBS
September 13 The Lone Ranger ABC
Solid Gold Syndication
September 28 Cosmos PBS
October 4 Heathcliff ABC
Thundarr the Barbarian
October 27 Blockbusters NBC
Gambit
Ladies' Man CBS
October 30 It's a Living ABC
October 31 I'm a Big Girl Now
November 8 Richie Rich
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
November 11 Too Close for Comfort
November 12 Enos CBS
November 18 Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters NBC
November 27 Bosom Buddies ABC
November 29 Breaking Away
December 6 Freebie and the Bean CBS
Secrets of Midland Heights
December 10 Number 96
December 11 Magnum, P.I.

Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
January 3 Spider-Woman 1979
January 5 A New Kind of Family
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
January 10 The Rockford Files 1974
February 1 Love of Life 1951
February 29 Make Me Laugh (returned in 1997) 1958
March 26 The Ultraman 1979
April 5 Hawaii Five-O 1968
April 30 Hello, Larry 1979
June 20 Chain Reaction (returned in 1986) 1980
High Rollers (returned in 1987) 1974
June 27 Pyramid (returned in 1981) 1973
August 28 Nobody's Perfect 1980
September 4 Barnaby Jones 1973
October 23 Angie 1979
Armchair Thriller 1978
Dinah! 1974
Magpie 1968

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

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Premiere date Title Network
April 15-16 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones CBS
May 11 The Return of the King ABC
May 19 The Scarlett O'Hara War NBC
September 15 Shogun (miniseries)
October 31 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Networks and services

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Launches

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Network Type Launch date Notes Source
CNN Cable television June 1
Cinemax Cable television August 1
ACSN - The Learning Channel Cable television October
Bravo Cable and satellite December 8
Kraft Golden Showcase Network Cable and satellite Unknown

Conversions and rebrandings

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Old network New network Type Conversion date Notes Source
Madison Square Garden Sports Network USA Network Cable television April 9

Closures

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There are no closures for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

Television stations

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Station launches

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Date City of License/Market Station Channel Affiliation Notes/Ref.
January 25 Minot, North Dakota KSRE 6 PBS Part of Prairie Public Television
January 27 Rochester, New York WUHF 31 Independent
January 28 Cincinnati, Ohio WBTI-TV 64 Independent
February 22 Denver, Colorado KBDI-TV 12 PBS
February 29 Lafayette, Louisiana KADN 15 Independent (primary)
CBS (secondary, per program)
March 20 Milwaukee, Wisconsin WCGV-TV 24 Independent
April 11 Salisbury, Maryland WMDT 47 ABC (primary)
NBC (secondary)
May 4 Willow Grove/Reading, Pennsylvania WTVE 51 Independent
June 1 Bemidji, Minnesota KAWE 9 PBS Part of Lakeland Public Television
July 28 Dickinson, North Dakota KQCD-TV 7 NBC (primary)
ABC (secondary)
Semi-satellite of KFYR-TV/Bismarck
August 1 Jacksonville, Florida WXAO-TV 47 Independent
August 12 Casper, Wyoming KCWY-TV 14 CBS
August 23 Flint, Michigan WFUM 28 PBS
September 8 Spartanburg, South Carolina
(Florence/Greenville, South Carolina)
WRET-TV 49 PBS Part of South Carolina ETV
September 22 Eau Claire/La Crosse, Wisconsin WXOW 19 ABC
September 29 Washington, D.C. WHUT 32 PBS
October 6 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas KTXA-TV 21 Independent
October 15 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma KAUT-TV 43 Independent
October 26 Tulsa, Oklahoma KOKI-TV 23 Independent
November 7 Greenville/Greenwood, Mississippi WXVT 15 CBS
November 16 Mountain View, Arkansas KEMV 6 PBS Part of the Arkansas Educational Television Network
November 22 Florence, South Carolina WPDE-TV 15 ABC
November 26 Hardin/Billings, Montana KOUS-TV 4 NBC
December 24 Valdosta/Albany, Georgia WVGA 44 ABC
December 30 Green Bay, Wisconsin WGBA-TV 26 Independent

Network affiliation changes

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Date City of License/Market Station Channel Old affiliation New affiliation Notes/Ref.
January 1 Dayton, Ohio WDTN 2 NBC ABC
WKEF 22 ABC NBC
March 31 Jacksonville, Florida WJKS 17 ABC NBC
WTLV 12 NBC ABC
September 1 Atlanta, Georgia WSB-TV 2 NBC ABC
WXIA-TV 11 ABC NBC

Births

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Date Name Notability
January 4 Greg Cipes Voice actor (Codename: Kids Next Door, Teen Titans, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Ben 10, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Fish Hooks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Titans Go!)
June Diane Raphael Actress (Burning Love, NTSF:SD:SUV, Grace and Frankie)
Erin Cahill Actress
D'Arcy Carden Actress
January 7 Brandi Hitt Former reporter and anchor for ABC 7 in Los Angeles
January 8 Rachel Nichols Actress (The Inside, Alias, Criminal Minds, Continuum)
January 10 Sarah Shahi Actress (The L Word, Fairly Legal, Person of Interest)
January 16 Lin-Manuel Miranda Actor
January 17 Zooey Deschanel Actress (New Girl) and singer
Maksim Chmerkovskiy Choreographer
January 18 Jason Segel Actor (Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother)
Estelle British singer and voice actress (Steven Universe, Steven Universe Future)
January 19 Luke Macfarlane Canadian actor (Brothers & Sisters)
January 20 Philippe Cousteau Jr. American oceanographer
January 22 Christopher Masterson Actor (Malcolm in the Middle)
January 28 Nick Carter Actor (House of Carters) and singer (Backstreet Boys)
January 30 Wilmer Valderrama Actor (That '70s Show, Handy Manny)
January 31 James Adomian Actor (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Mad TV, WordGirl, Conan, Future-Worm!)
April Lee Hernández American television actress
Clarissa Ward British-American television journalist and correspondent
February 8 William Jackson Harper Actor
February 9 Margarita Levieva Russian-born actress (Vanished, Revenge, Allegiance)
February 11 Matthew Lawrence Actor (Drexell's Class, Brotherly Love, Boy Meets World)
February 12 Sarah Lancaster Actress (Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Chuck)
Christina Ricci Actress (Pan Am)
February 17 Jason Ritter Actor (Joan of Arcadia, The Class, Parenthood, Gravity Falls) and son of John Ritter
February 21 Justin Roiland Voice actor (Fish Hooks, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty)
February 25 Chris Knowings Actor (Taina)
Christy Knowings Actress (All That)
February 27 Brandon Beemer Actor (Days of Our Lives)
February 29 Peter Scanavino Actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Taylor Twellman Television commentator
Patrick Côté Boxer
March 2 Rebel Wilson Actress
March 3 Katherine Waterston English actress (Boardwalk Empire)
March 7 Laura Prepon Actress (That '70s Show, Orange is the New Black)
March 9 Matthew Gray Gubler Actor (Criminal Minds)
March 12 John-Paul Lavoisier Actor (One Life to Live)
March 17 Reed Timmer Storm chaser
March 20 Mikey Day Actor and comedian (Kath and Kim, The Jay Leno Show, Saturday Night Live)
March 21 Guru Singh Actor
March 22 Melissa Paull Actress (Mad TV)
Joshua Johnson American journalist
March 25 Tinsel Korey Actress
March 26 Margaret Brennan Journalist
March 29 Chris D'Elia Actor
March 31 Kate Micucci Actress (The Big Bang Theory, Raising Hope, Steven Universe, Scooby-Doo, Milo Murphy's Law, DuckTales)
Ari Melber TV host
April 1 Bijou Phillips Actress (Raising Hope) and singer
Randy Orton WWE wrestler
April 2 Bobby Bones American radio and television personality
April 4 Michael Bellisario Actor
April 7 Melanie Merkosky Actress
April 8 Katee Sackhoff Actress (Battlestar Galactica, Longmire)
Bill English Actor
April 9 Rachel Specter Actress
April 10 Jasika Nicole Actress
Kasey Kahne Race car driver
April 13 Kelli Giddish Actress
April 14 Claire Coffee Actress (General Hospital, Franklin & Bash, Grimm, Chelsey and Kelsey)
April 15 Arian Moayed Actor
April 17 Nicholas D'Agosto Actor (Masters of Sex, Gotham)
Alaina Huffman Canadian actress (Smallville, Stargate Universe, Supernatural)
April 21 Griffin House Musician
Tony Romo Color commentator (NFL on CBS)
April 23 David Larsen Actor
April 24 Austin Nichols Actor (One Tree Hill)
Reagan Gomez-Preston Actress (The Parent 'Hood, Love, Inc, The Cleveland Show, Steven Universe)
April 25 Geoff Bennett Journalist (PBS NewsHour)
April 26 Jordana Brewster Actress (As the World Turns, Dallas)
Channing Tatum Actor
Darris Love Actor (The Secret World of Alex Mack)
April 29 Damien Dante Wayans Actor
April 30 Sam Heughan Actor
May 2 Ellie Kemper Actress (The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and comedian
May 3 Mozhan Marnò Actress
May 17 Daniel Moncada Actor
May 19 Drew Fuller Actor (Charmed, Army Wives)
May 23 Chris Gethard Actor
May 27 Ben Feldman Actor (Superstore)
May 30 Remy Ma Rapper
Jenna Lee American journalist
May 31 Andy Hurley American musician (Fall Out Boy)
June 1 Arthur Gourounlian Dancer
June 6 Pete Hegseth Host
June 10 Jessica DiCicco Voice actress (The Buzz on Maggie, Loonatics Unleashed, The Emperor's New School, The Mighty B!, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, The Loud House, Future-Worm!, It's Pony)
June 15 Christopher Castile Actor (Step by Step, Hey Arnold!)
Cara Zavaleta Model
June 18 David Giuntoli Actor (Grimm, A Million Little Things)
Lindsay Shookus Producer
Kevin Bishop Actor
June 19 Lauren Lee Smith Canadian actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mutant X)
Teddy Dunn Actor
Neil Brown Jr. Actor
June 20 Tika Sumpter Singer and actress
June 23 Melissa Rauch Actress (The Big Bang Theory)
Heath Freeman Actor (died 2021)
Matias Varela Actor
Blair Herter TV personality
June 24 Minka Kelly Actress (Friday Night Lights, Charlie's Angels, Almost Human)
June 25 Shannon Lucio Actress (The O.C., Prison Break)
June 26 Casey DeSantis Journalist and TV show host
June 27 Ben Bocquelet Writer
July 1 Fortune Feimster Actress
Alex Blagg Writer
July 3 Olivia Munn TV host and actress (Attack of the Show!, The Daily Show, The Newsroom)
July 4 Carrie Keagan TV host and actress
July 5 Pauly D American television personality
July 10 Nick Schifrin Journalist (PBS NewsHour)
Jessica Simpson Singer and actress (Fashion Star)
Jeremy Ray Valdez Actor (Drake & Josh)
July 12 Kristen Connolly Actress (House of Cards, The Whispers, Zoo)
July 18 Kristen Bell Actress (Veronica Mars, The Good Place, Gossip Girl, House of Lies)
July 19 Chris Sullivan Actor (This Is Us)
Josh Fadem Actor
Mark Webber Actor
July 20 Gisele Bündchen Brazilian model
July 21 Sprague Grayden Actress
July 27 Jessi Combs Television personality (died 2019)
Dolph Ziggler WWE wrestler
July 29 Rachel Miner Actress (Guiding Light, Californication)
July 30 April Bowlby Actress (Two and a Half Men, Drop Dead Diva, Doom Patrol)
August 3 Hannah Simone British-born Canadian actress (New Girl)
August 6 Monique Ganderton Canadian actress
August 8 Michael Urie Actor (Ugly Betty)
August 9 Texas Battle Actor (The Bold and the Beautiful)
Stephen Schneider Actor
August 10 Aaron Staton Actor
August 11 Merritt Wever Actress
August 12 Maggie Lawson Actress (It's All Relative, Crumbs, Psych, Back in the Game)
Dominique Swain Actress (Lolita, Totally Awesome)
August 13 Veronica de la Cruz Anchor
August 18 Sarah Spain American sports reporter
August 19 Aaron Horvath Director
Adam Campbell Actor
August 21 Jon Lajoie Actor
John Brotherton Actor
August 24 Rachael Carpani Australian actress (McLeod's Daughters, Against the Wall)
August 26 Macaulay Culkin Actor (Robot Chicken)
Jim Beanz Actor
August 28 Carly Pope Canadian actress (Popular)
September 8 Eric Hutchinson Singer
September 6 Daniel Wohl Composer
Tehmina Sunny Actress
September 7 J. D. Pardo Actor
September 9 Michelle Williams Actress (Dawson's Creek)
September 13 Ben Savage Actor (Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World)
September 17 Jill Latiano Actress
September 21 Autumn Reeser Actress (The O.C., Valentine, No Ordinary Family)
Aleksa Palladino Actress
Brianna Keilar CNN reporter
September 23 Aubrey Dollar Actress
September 25 Jeremiah Bitsui Actor
T.I. Actor
September 28 Patti Murin Actress
September 29 Zachary Levi Actor (Chuck, Heroes Reborn, Tangled: The Series, Alias Grace)
Chrissy Metz Actress (This Is Us)
Darragh Ennis Quizzer
Nick Viall Actor
September 30 Toni Trucks Actress
October 1 Sarah Drew Actress (Daria, Everwood, Grey's Anatomy) and singer
October 4 Morgan Spector Actor
October 6 Jenny Wade Actress
Andrew Keoghan Musician
October 8 Nick Cannon Actor (All That, The Nick Cannon Show, America's Got Talent)
The Miz Actor
October 13 Ashanti Singer and actress
October 15 Brandon Jay McLaren Canadian actor (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
October 16 Jeremy Jackson Actor and singer (Baywatch)
October 17 Angel Parker Actress (Lab Rats, Runaways)
Nicholas Britell Composer
Justin Shenkarow Actor (Eerie, Indiana, Picket Fences, Life with Louie, Hey Arnold!, Recess, Lloyd in Space)
October 18 Erin Dean Actress (The Journey of Allen Strange)
Natasha Rothwell Actress
October 19 Katja Herbers Actress
October 20 Niall Matter Actor
October 21 Kim Kardashian Actress (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
October 23 Robert Belushi Actor
October 24 Casey Wilson Actress (Happy Endings, The Hotwives, Marry Me)
October 29 Michele Boyd Actress (The Guild, Team Unicorn)
Ben Foster Actor
October 30 Sarah Carter Actress (Shark, Falling Skies)
October 31 Samaire Armstrong Actress (The O.C., Resurrection)
Eddie Kaye Thomas Actor (Brutally Normal, American Dad!, Scorpion)
November 2 Brittany Ishibashi Actress
November 4 Emme Rylan Actress (Guiding Light, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless)
November 5 Luke Hemsworth Australian actor (Neighbours, Westworld)
November 9 Vanessa Lachey Actress
November 12 Ryan Gosling Actor (Breaker High, Young Hercules)
Gustaf Skarsgård Actor
Christopher Cantwell Filmmaker
November 13 Monique Coleman Actress (High School Musical)
November 17 Isaac Hanson Singer (Hanson)
November 18 Mathew Baynton Actor
November 20 Tony Laubach Storm chaser
November 25 Valerie Azlynn Actress (Sullivan & Son)
November 26 Jessica Bowman Actress (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
November 29 Jason Griffith Voice actor (Sonic X)
Janina Gavankar Actress
December 1 Angelique Bates Actress (All That)
December 3 Anna Chlumsky Actress (Veep)
Jenna Dewan Tatum Dancer and actress (American Horror Story)
December 4 James Francis Ginty Actor
December 5 Tamara Feldman Actress (Gossip Girl)
Jessica Paré Actress
December 8 Shakina Nayfack Actress
December 9 Simon Helberg Actor (The Big Bang Theory, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)
December 10 Kate Reinders Actress (Work It, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series)
Alberto Zeni Actor
December 18 Christina Aguilera Singer and child actress (Mickey Mouse Club, The Voice)
December 19 Marla Sokoloff Actress (The Practice, Big Day The Fosters)
Jake Gyllenhaal Actor
December 22 Chris Carmack Actor (The O.C., Nashville)
December 23 Rory O'Malley Actor
December 24 Tony Dokoupil American broadcast journalist
December 27 Elizabeth Rodriguez Actress (New York Undercover, All My Children Orange Is the New Black, Power, Grimm, Fear the Walking Dead)
December 28 Vanessa Ferlito Actress (Graceland)
December 30 Eliza Dushku Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Tru Calling, Dollhouse, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.)
Jazmyn Simon Actress

Deaths

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Date Name Age Notability
January 29 Jimmy Durante 86 Actor (The Jimmy Durante Show)
February 13 David Janssen 48 Actor (The Fugitive, Harry O, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury)
February 27 George Tobias 78 Actor (Abner Kravitz on Bewitched)
March 5 Jay Silverheels 67 Actor (Tonto on The Lone Ranger)
April 29 Alfred Hitchcock 80 Film director, host of (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
June 12 Milburn Stone 75 Actor ("Doc" on Gunsmoke)
July 31 Bobby Van 51 Game show host and panelist (Match Game, Tattletales, Showoffs, Make Me Laugh)
August 14 Dorothy Stratten 20 Actress, Playboy model
September 3 Duncan Renaldo 76 Romanian-born actor (The Cisco Kid)
September 12 Lillian Randolph 81 Actress (Amos 'n' Andy)
November 7 Steve McQueen 50 Actor (Josh Randall on Wanted: Dead or Alive)
December 8 John Lennon 40 Musician (The Beatles), co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, pp. 384–387 (PDF Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine)
  2. ^ Solomon, Charles (May 10, 1980). "Lawsuit Threatened Showing of 'Return of the King'". Part II. Los Angeles Times. pp. 5, 10. Retrieved June 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Paul D. Staudohar (1989). The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining. ILR Press. p. 140. ISBN 9780875461519.
  4. ^ Francis Rosa (May 18, 1980). "Goring Finds His Paradise". Boston Globe. p. 1.
  5. ^ Jerry Kirshenbaum (June 16, 1980). "Scorecard". Sports Illustrated. Time Inc.
  6. ^ "Around the NHL". The Washington Post. March 29, 1989.
  7. ^ Rachel Shuster (March 29, 1989). "'American Sportsman' makes strong comeback". USA Today. Gannett Company. p. 3C.
  8. ^ The Price Is Right (American game show). Season 8. Episode 186. June 20, 1980. CBS.
  9. ^ Vanna White on The Price Is Right (1980) on YouTube
  10. ^ The Price Is Right's 25th Anniversary Special (08/23/1996) on YouTube
  11. ^ Gold, Matea; Maria Elena Fernandez and Richard Verrier (2007-12-18). "Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien to return to the air Jan. 2". Los Angeles Times.
  12. ^ Bodig, Chris (July 27, 2018). "HALL OF FAMER BOB COSTAS' GREATEST GAME CALLS". Cooperstown Cred.
  13. ^ "SEARCHABLE NETWORK TV BROADCASTS". sabrmedia.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18.
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