page_title: June 1980
section_title: June 20, 1980 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1980 / June 20, 1980 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Hollywood Squares celebrating its eighth year/ beginning its ninth year. Pictured are Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, host Peter Marshall and Cliff Arquette as Charlie Weaver.
context_page_description: The following events happened in June 1980:
context_section_description: In a bout for the WBC world welterweight boxing championship, billed as "The Brawl in Montreal", former WBC lightweight champion Roberto Durán of Panama upset previously unbeaten (27 wins, no losses) Sugar Ray Leonard at Montreal's Olympic Stadium to capture the welterweight division.
  The first parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 for the 250-member National Assembly. The Ba'ath Party won 187 of the 250 seats, and 14 of 19 women candidates won their races to become the first female members to serve as Iraqi legislators.
  The Zakat and Ushr Ordinances took effect in Pakistan, changing taxation over to Islamic principles and barring loans from all non-Muslim financial institutions as part of President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's program of "Islamization" of the south Asian nation.  Under the rules, the zakat was collected for 2.5 percent of assets of greater than 1,000 rupees in savings accounts on the first day of the month of Ramadan, then redistributed to help persons in poverty.  The ushr, a 10% sales tax on goods imported from non-Muslim states, as well as 10% on harvests of irrigated farmland, and 5% on land dependent on well water. 
  At Los Angeles, paleobiologist J. William Schopf announced that microscopic fossils found in Western Australia showed the oldest evidence of the first life on Earth, estimated to have become fossilized 3.5 billion years ago.  The find was 400 million years earlier than the previous date for earliest life on earth, and had been made in the study of stromatolites, distinctive rocks that could only be formed by microorganisms. Dr. Schopf said that the fossils showed colonies of cells in threadlike filaments, and noted that single-celled bacteria must have existed much earlier, and spread over most of the earth by winds.
  The Hollywood Squares, a popular U.S. TV game show and celebrity comedy, broadcast its 3,536th and last daytime episode on NBC.
  The cult comedy The Blues Brothers and the romance The Blue Lagoon premiered on the same day, both to mixed reviews.  Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called The Blues Brothers "one of the all-time great comedies; the best movie ever made in Chicago" while Bruce Smith of New York's Daily News wrote that the film "is full of opportunities for comedy, few of them realized."  Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that The Blue Lagoon (a remake of a 1948 British film) "has triumphed on all counts" under the direction of Randal Kleiser  while Kathleen Carroll of the Daily News said that the film "moves at a snail's pace, proving, once and for all, that life in tropical paradises can be painfully monotonous."
caption: The Hollywood Squares
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