November 1980

Saturday 01:

Wayanad district formed in the state of Kerala, India.

Tuesday 04:

U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.

Wednesday 12:

The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest aproach to Saturn.

Sunday 16:

Louis Althusser murders his wife and immediately confesses.

Friday 21:

1980 -Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.

Sunday 23:

A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

Tuesday 25:

No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard recovers the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a fight against Roberto Duran.

Friday 28:

Mark Morris, choreographer, gets together some friends, calls them the Mark Morris Dance Group, and puts on its first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.