1980

  • Happy Birthday Per-Gunnar “P-G” Andersson (1980)

    Per-Gunnar “P-G” Andersson (born 10 March 1980 in Årjäng) is a Swedish rally driver. He is a two-time winner of the Junior World Rally Championship. In 2011, Andersson competed in two WRC events with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC, finishing seventh in Sweden and in Italy. He drove Tommi Mäkinen Racing’s Subaru Impreza STi R4 on Rally Finland, finishing fifteenth. He was also signed…

  • Voyager 1 Passes Saturn (1980)

    Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program, to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are…

  • Happy Birthday Mikko Hirvonen (1980)

    Mikko Hirvonen (born 31 July 1980) is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers’ championship and helped Ford to the manufacturers’ title in both 2006 and 2007. In 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 he finished runner-up to Sébastien…