Editing 1980 (section)

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1980}}
* [[November 4]] – [[1980 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] challenger and former Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] of [[California]] defeats incumbent [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] President [[Jimmy Carter]] and is elected the 40th President of the United States.
* [[November 7]] – Legendary  actor [[Steve McQueen]] dies at the age of 50 of a cardiac arrest after surgery to remove tumours in his neck after previously been diagnosed with lung cancer.
* [[November 10]]–[[November 12|12]] – [[Voyager program]]: The [[NASA]] space probe ''[[Voyager I]]'' makes its closest approach to [[Saturn]], when it flies within {{convert|77,000|mi|km}} of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high-resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
* [[November 20]] – The [[Gang of Four]] trial begins in China.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Lawrance|title=China Under Communism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7mGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-74792-4|pages=104}}</ref>
* [[November 21]]
** A [[MGM Grand fire|fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino]] on the [[Las Vegas Strip]] kills 85 people.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fire and the Environment: Ecological and Cultural Perspectives : Proceedings of an International Symposium, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 20-24, 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwVcDLZM1HkC&pg=PA237|year=1991|publisher=Southeastern Forest Experiment Station|pages=237}}</ref>
** A record number of viewers on this date (for an entertainment program) tune into the U.S. television show ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'' to learn who shot lead character [[J. R. Ewing]]. The "[[Who shot J.R.?]]" event is an international obsession.
* [[November 23]] – The 6.9 {{M|w}} [[1980 Irpinia earthquake|Irpinia earthquake]] shakes southern Italy with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Officially, there were 2,483 people killed and 8,934 injured, though the deaths may have been as high as 4,900.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annali di geofisica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZAVAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Istituto nazionale di geofisica|page=61}}</ref>