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Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[edit]
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy[1]
Charan Singh - Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors[edit]
- Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
- Assam – L. P. Singh
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
- Haryana – Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (until 27 February), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 27 February)
- Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Govind Narain
- Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
- Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha (until 30 April), B. D. Sharma (starting 30 April)
- Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali (until 3 November), O. P. Mehra (starting 3 November)
- Manipur – L.P. Singh
- Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
- Nagaland – L.P. Singh
- Odisha –
- until 30 April: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- 30 April-30 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
- 1 October-3 November: S. K. Ray
- starting 3 November: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
- Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
- Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
- Sikkim – B. B. Lal
- Tamil Nadu –
- until 26 October: Prabhudas Patwari
- 26 October-3 November: M. M. Ismail
- starting 3 November: Sadiq Ali
- Tripura – L. P. Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (until 27 February), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 27 February)
- West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh
Events[edit]
- National income - ₹1,470,629 million
- 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.[3]
- 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.[4]
- 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed.[5]
- 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport.[6]
- 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota.[7]
- Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines.[8]
- The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.[9]
- 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.[10]
Law[edit]
- 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act[citation needed]
Sport[edit]
The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics.[11]
Births[edit]
- 21 January – Santhanam, actor and comedian.
- 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
- 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
- 17 March – Nikitin Dheer, actor
- 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter[12]
- 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer[13]
- 4 June – Prashanth Neel, film director.
- 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
- 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
- 7 July – Ramachandra Raju, actor.
- 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player.
- 12 August – Ghibran, music composer.
- 14 August – Prabhjot Singh, field hockey player.
- 16 August – Upen Patel, model and actor.
- 18 August – Preeti Jhangiani, actress and model.
- 30 August – Richa Pallod, model and actress.
- 10 September – Jayam Ravi, actor.
- 18 September – Akshay Kapoor, actor.
Kareena Kapoor - 18 October – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, cricketer.
- 24 October – Laila Mehdin, actress.
- 12 November – Devesh Chauhan, field hockey player.
- 13 November – Harman Baweja, actor.
- 9 December – Gagan Ajit Singh, field hockey player.
- 11 December – Arya, actor.
- 17 December – Arjun Halappa, field hockey player.
- 28 December – Deepak Thakur, field hockey player.
Deaths[edit]
- 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi, politician (b. 1946).
- 23 June – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, fourth president of India (b. 1894).
- 18 July – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (b. 1904).
- 24 July – Uttam Kumar, actor (b. 1926).
- 31 July – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (b. 1924).
- 2 August – Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
- 17 August – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer (b. 1909).
- 25 October – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (b. 1921).
- 11 November – Chenganoor Raman Pillai, Kathakali artiste (b. 1886).
- 16 November – Jayan, actor (b. 1938).
References[edit]
- ^ "Former Presidents - The President of India". presidentofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "List of Indian Prime ministers till now". My India. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "Forty Years Ago, January 1, 1980: Crucial battle in UP". The Indian Express. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Charlton, Linda (1 November 1984). "Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "India in 1982: Major events and happenings". India Today. 26 December 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Sethi, Sunil (22 January 2014). "Sanjay Gandhi dies in a dramatic plane crash, his passing to leave a political vacuum". India Today. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "SLV - ISRO". www.isro.gov.in. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Agarwall, Vijay (28 June 2004). "'I'm Rajiv Gandhi, the co-pilot'". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ Ahmad, Faizan (16 April 2010). "Blind rage and anguish, 30 yrs on". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Ramagundam, Rahul (2022). The Life and Times of George Fernandes. Penguin Random House India. p. 384. ISBN 978-0670092888.
- ^ Kesavan, N. (2 July 2016). "Revisiting the golden age of Indian hockey at the Olympics". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "Results". m2002.thecgf.com. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Dola Banerjee - Olympic Archery | India". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.