Template:Year in India Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy[1]
Charan Singh - Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh –
- Assam –
- Bihar –
- Gujarat –
- Haryana –
- Himachal Pradesh –
- Jammu and Kashmir –
- Karnataka –
- Kerala –
- Madhya Pradesh –
- Maharashtra –
- Manipur –
- Meghalaya –
- Nagaland –
- Odisha –
- Punjab –
- Rajasthan –
- Sikkim –
- Tamil Nadu –
- Tripura –
- Uttar Pradesh –
- West Bengal –
Events
- 1 January – Dr. Leo Rebello becomes the Director of the Natural Health Centre, Bombay.[3]
- 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.[4]
- 25 January – Dr. Leo Rebello forms All India Letter Writers Association and is elected its president.[5]
- 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash.[6]
- Rajiv Gandhi began work for Indian Airlines.[7]
- The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.[8]
Sport
The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics.[9]
Births
- 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
- 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
- 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter[10]
- 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer[11]
- 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
- 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
- 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player
- 14 August – Prabjoth 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.
- 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
- 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
- ↑ Former Presidents - The President of India. presidentofindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ List of Indian Prime ministers till now. My India(2014-04-16). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ HEALTHWISDOM.ORG - HEALTH AWARENESS SITE. www.healthwisdom.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India. The New York Times(1 November 1984). Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ AILWA - All India Letter-Writers Association. www.karmayog.com. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ Sanjay Gandhi dies in a dramatic plane crash, his passing to leave a political vacuum. India Today(22 January 2014). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ 'I'm Rajiv Gandhi, the co-pilot'. The Times of India(28 June 2004). Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ Blind rage and anguish, 30 yrs on. The Times of India(16 April 2010). Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ Revisiting the golden age of Indian hockey at the Olympics. The Hindu(2 July 2016). 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.