Timeline: 1980 - A Look Back at the Year 1980

Hey everyone, we have TIMELINE 1981 coming this Sunday.

Also, for everyone who asked - the intro song's name is "Ace Invader"

The best of times 👍🏻

Yuppie was short for young urban professional.

THEY WERE ABOUT TO TAKE CONTROL

I was born January 1st, 1980

HOW could you possibly leave out The Empire Strikes Back?! It's the greatest sequel of all time and a pop culture phenomenon.

The 80's were of the best of times and so much more representation of values, integrity, honor and congruence with more willingness to respect others within society. Great times.

John Lennon was an evil jealous control freak who beat yoko Ono black and blue.

The 80’s were the best era to grow up in. I would not change a thing. Imagine the poor kids growing up today in a woke liberal moronic society…. Girls were girls and men were men. We were very lucky as it was the best time in American history.

Disco died for a reason it sucked

The 1980s was a Real Bitching Decade. Very Good Decade.

On this year a very beautiful and wonderful Man was created 🤣🤣🤣👍🏽

Reputed mobster...

Yeah, right!

In 1980 i turned 12 the 80's was a great time to be a teenager,,i feel sorry for the kids today with crap music and all the trans and woke shit,mis gender someone they flip out , sorry there is only 2 genders,,so many mental ill people in the world today

the year I graduated high school and started college...and I remember all of these events (most notably death of Lennon)

how many 80s kids are here? 😍🔥

The year that Iran really pissed the US

So weird watching all this footage knowing that all these people are dead now.

Born in 1980. We were lucky fucks indeed.

1980 is the year my favorite album, Duke by Genesis, came out, & i think that’s pretty cool. Two other records from that year i like would be Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police & Remain in Light by Talking Heads, all three albums are classics that i heavily recommend

You mentioned Goodfellas premiered in 1980? It premiered in 1990.

My favorite part of the 80's was December 31st 1989 at 11:59:59 PM.

I was eight years old in 1980 and I already hated everything about it.

It’s amazing that from 1980 to 2020 was 40 years and those from 1991-2020 is 30 years. I grew up in the 90’s era and they were simpler times as well. I wish i could go back cause my parents would be younger and healthier and I would still be living my younger self as a kid.

Music videos

That was charles carneglia gambino soldier who was rumored to have dumped the corpse of john favara in a vat of acid for killing by accident the son of john gotti frank gotti.carneglia is doing life without parole in a federal prison i think in pennsylvania.john gotti in 1980 was only a soldier in the gambino family.

I was born in 69, so all of your videos are sentimental flashbacks. Thank You.

The best year of my life. Too bad my grandchildren will never have one like it.

I was 20 in 1980. I don’t think I had a better time in America than in the 80’s. It was a brilliant, fun and creative decade.

I was 50 in 1987

Demorats "Boycott" 1980 Olympic games because the U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan. Too dumb to look ahead to 1984 L.A. hosting the Olympics...

Did anyone fear of a Soviet invasion in the 1980s.??

While your general overall piece here is great and well researched... once again Weird History team you've LEFT OUT probably one of the most controversial cinematic benchmarks for all of 1980. How, (no really) HOW could you omit Brian DePalma's classic, benchmark psychological thriller 'Dressed to Kill???' Premiering in Los Angeles and New York City on July 25, 1980 this shockingly violent, erotically charged flicker drew massive ire from Gay groups and Women's groups alike all bemoaning DePalma's alleged women hating ways which of course was absolute hogwash, but CATAPULTED the film to iconic status and was a HUGE return for our beloved Angie Dickenson! (who still cherishes this movie as one of her absolute favorites to this very day!)

Lindy & the dingo was recently raised that it was possible as it happened in the last couple years to someone else, caught on camera phone.

Wth

I was born in 1980😅😂

My very first memory was when I saw my mom crying because John Lennon was killed. I turned 3 just two weeks after that incident.

1980 I was a young 14 yr old girl. Great time to be a teenager

It was the best I loved the 80s

Memorably the WORST YEAR. Reagan is elected, month later Lennon is shot and killed in NYC.

🎉Ah yes... Ronald Reagan; the world's great living actor then. And now possibly the wotyylds greatest actor... Ever.

The best time of my life, I even had a hat that said, I SHOT J.R. 😆

My favorite memory of 1980 was discovering masturbation.

Welcome to fantasy,,,wow so true when you think about it

I had never heard of this John Favera, but this incident adds yet another reason why I have no respect or regard for mob figures. I don't drive. But if I did and I accidentally hit a child and killed him, I would feel very bad and distraught, indeed. But having to take special consideration for a mobster's kid just because his old man would kill me is very flustering, and is one of the many reasons that I became void of any respect for figures like that. Not even a pedophile can be this supercilious and imperious. I mean, was John Gotti so unreasonable that he had to kill a man just because shit happens? John Favera didn't even make any mistake - shit just happens. I can't even find the words to describe how condescending guys like Gotti are and how patronized I feel knowing that they need preferential consideration. Yes, I have to watch out for pedestrians and children when I drive - I have no problem with that as I strive to give everybody equal consideration. I can even accept that I could get myself shot robbing the wrong person - not because he may be a mobster, but because I advocate both my fellow man and myself having the same right to defend ourselves. But I am too adamant about equal rights and responsibilities to give some lowlife any special consideration.

It was may 14th Saint Helen erupted 😮

What makes 1980 very special to me? Is that, on the 1st day of school, 9th grade, age 14, around September 5th , I got high on marijuana for the 1st time!!
It sucks, though, that John Bonham died a few weeks later.

Got pulled over in 1980 at 17 with a case of beer in the car and all 4 guys with open beers. The cop made us dump our beers and put the remaining beer in his trunk. Warned us don’t let him catch us again and drove off. Things have definitely changed.

That $3.10 per hour went waaaay further than $15 an hour in 2023