1980 January 7
The Steelers dump the Houston Oilers 27-13 to get their fourth shot at the Super Bowl.

1980 January 9
The newly installed County Commissioner Cyril Wecht announces his resignation as County Coroner.

1980 January 14
A large crowd sends the Steelers off to their fourth consecutive Super Bowl game in Miami.

1980 January 20
The "Super Steelers" rally three times in a close contest to defeat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 and win Super Bowl XIV, the fourth Super Bowl victory in six years.

1980 January 23
University of Pittsburgh students make hundreds of dollars worth of free long distance calls when the pay phones in a dormitory lobby malfunction.

1980 January 30
U.S. Steel reported a loss of $293 million, the largest quarterly decline in the firm's history.

1980 February 1
A jury orders the electrocution of Bennie Graves, a Homewood-Brushton man convicted in the strangulation killing of two children for whom he had been babysitting.

1980 February 6
Contract negotiations continue between the United Steelworkers and the "Big 9" companies.

1980 February 8
PAT's Board of Directors approve a 10 cents fare increase.

1980 February 11
Robert L. Hawkins, Jr., former Allegheny County Manpower Director, receives a 6-1/2-year prison sentence and is ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $79,000 restitution on 83 counts of payroll fraud.

1980 February 17
A Carnegie Mellon University study asserts that the outlook for the steel industry in Pittsburgh is brighter than expected because the firms will invest $1.1 billion dollars updating equipment, building new facilities and installing environmental controls.

1980 February 18
A record number of speakers and spectators packed the school board's public hearing to oppose the board's desegregation plan.

1980 February 21
Six days before the deadline set by the state Human Relations Commission, the school board remains divided over desegregation.

1980 February 28
The County Commissioners offered a $18.3 million plan to line the Allegheny River with parks.

1980 March 1
PAT bus and trolley fares are raised 10 cents despite a last-ditch court battle by a community group.