page_title: August 1980
section_title: August 3, 1980 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: August 1980 / August 3, 1980 (Sunday)
context_page_description: The following events happened in August 1980:
context_section_description: The closing ceremony was held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Of the 81 participating national teams, 18 marched with the Olympic flag instead of their national flags in order to show their disapproval of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Later, in place of the American flag to identify the nation that would host the next summer games, the flag of Los Angeles was hoisted instead.
  The first triathlon in Canada was held at Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park near Saanich, British Columbia, almost six years after the modern event had been introduced in San Diego on September 25, 1974.  The event of a one-mile swim across Elk Lake, a 20-mile bicycle race and a ten-kilometer run, attracted 51 competitors.
  Born: 
  Teuku Rifnu Wikana, Indonesian film actor, in Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra
  Nadia Ali, Libyan-born Pakistani-American singer, in Tripoli
  Died: Donald Ogden Stewart, 85, American author and screenweriter
caption: U.S. flag substitute, 1980