8 października 1980 roku była środa pod znakiem zodiaku ♎. Był to 281 dzień roku. Prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych był Jimmy Carter.
Jeśli urodziłeś się w tym dniu, masz 45 lata. Twoje ostatnie urodziny upłynęły środa, 8 października 2025 roku, 263 dni temu. Twoje następne urodziny przypadają na dzień czwartek, 8 października 2026 roku, w 101 dni. Żyłeś przez 16 699 dni lub około 400 791 godzin lub około 24 047 515 minut lub około 1 442 850 900 sekund.
Date: 08 October 1980
By PRANAY B. GUPTE Special to The New York Times
Iranians rally Behind Government of Pres Bani-Sadr as war with Iraq enters its third week (M)
Date: 09 October 1980
striking reporters and mailers reach tentative agreement with Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co, ending 26-day strike; publisher Donald Dwight comments (S)
Date: 09 October 1980
Leonard R Sussman, representative of Inter-American Press Assn, says at meeting of UNESCO that any international program for development of communications 'should not reflect political objectives'; speech is part of campaign by West to protest package of communication programs under consideration by UNESCO that has been interpreted as attack on Western concept of free press; further discussions are scheduled with report by Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, UNESCO general secretary (M)
Date: 08 October 1980
Ellen Marks, reporter for Idaho Statesman, refuses to disclose news source and Judge Karen Vehlow reaffirms $500 fine she had imposed, saying she does not intend to make martyr of Marks by sending her to jail; Marks refused to disclose names or other details of people she had used in article about woman who had gone into hiding and was accused by her former husband of kidnapping her own daughter; based refusal to testify on 1st Amendment (S)
Date: 08 October 1980
Tass reports that Egypt has expelled the journalists (S)
Date: 08 October 1980
By ROBERT LINDSEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Asst Atty Gen William Schaefer 3d, in opening statement in murder trial, tells jurors he will offer proof that Adamson had lured reporter Don Bolles to meeting at Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix with promise of news tip, that Bolles told witnesses after bombing 'John Adamson did it, that Adamson had built bomb, and that he had described details of murder before and after it occurred; William Feldhacker, 1 of Adamson's 2 attorneys, tells jurors in his opening statement that defense will prove there is reasonable doubt of his guilt by challenging prosecution's evidence and credibility of its witnesses (S)
Date: 09 October 1980
By JAMES FERON Special to The New York Times
James Special
Westchester County (NY) Court Judge Russell R Leggett rules that pretrial hearings in case of Jean S Harris, who is accused of murdering Dr Herman Tarnower, should be kept open to press and public because statements that she wanted suppressed were already matter of public record (M)