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with the
support of the European Commission
.
, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in
the siege of the Great Mosque
in Mecca
in November,
1979.
in Pasadena, California
.
, becoming a
temporary tourist attraction.
, Colombia.
scientist
and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow
.
and Egypt
establish
diplomatic relations.
diplomats, posing as
Canadians
, manage to escape from Tehran
, Iran
as they
board a flight to Zürich
, Switzerland
.
is invaded and set on fire,
killing 36 people. It is called "Spain's own Tehran",
similar to the 1979–80 Iran American U.S. Embassy Hostages of
Americans.
personnel target members of the Congress of the United States
in a sting operation..
.
, followers of John Frum's
cargo cult on the island of Tanna
declare
secession as the nation of Tafea
. Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union
in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.'s parliament
will decide the fate of the American embassy
hostages.
ousts the government of Henck Arron; leaders Desi Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a
National Military Council.
, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.
..
, a plane
crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw
, killing a
14-man American boxing team and 73
others.
in Russia
, when a
Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its
launch pad during a fueling operation. will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
.
are erected in Elbert County, Georgia
.
. At his funeral 6 days later, 42 people are
killed amid gunfire and bombs.
is found in Jerusalem
.
begins.
's Transport Works Union Local
100 goes on strike, which
continues for 11 days.
. severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes
economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on
November 4, 1979.
and the
United
Kingdom
agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar
and Spain, closed
since 1969.
in a coup
d'état, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that
country. gains independence from the United
Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes
Prime Minister.
, a commando mission in Iran to rescue
American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems
ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the
failed operation.
, killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst
air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of
loss of life.
, Australia..
: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian
embassy in London
, UK.
SAS
retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist
survives.
President Tito dies.
The
funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic
meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations
in Belgrade
from all over the world (only the funeral of
Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news
coverage and a higher number of delegations).
, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time
served by an inmate).
, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay
, sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to
a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge
collapses.
.
court acquits 4 white police officers of killing
Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance
executive, provoking 3 days of race riots.
, Ayacucho
.
erupts
in Washington
, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in
damage.
, South
Korea
begin demonstrations, calling for democratic
reforms.
reject by
a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in
Tehran.
: Johnny Rutherford
wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is
Hall's second as an owner. storm government offices on the island of Tanna.
Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them
away., military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters
die.
by Joseph Paul
Franklin (the first major news story for CNN).
, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and
injuring over 250.
, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake
President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party
nomination.
, comedian Richard
Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
.
president
Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad
retaliates by sending the army against them.
after an explosion occurs in the air; 81 people
die. A bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the
accident but no culprits are ever found.
.
, Poland
; 7 people
are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
, including the city of Eau
Claire
. It causes over $250m in damage, and 1
person is killed. Governor and actor Ronald
Reagan is nominated for U.S. President,
at the Republican
National Convention in Detroit, Michigan
. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops
its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying
moderate Republicans.
., Soviet Union., dies in Cairo
. gains independence.
at the railway station
in Bologna
, Italy
kills 85
people and wounds more than 200.
..
),
reportedly taken by a dingo.
, Saudi Arabia., Poland.
Gdańsk Agreement is signed,
opening a way to start the first in the communist block free organization not
controlled by regime "Solidarność" ie. Solidarity.
opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles
(16.32 km), stretching from Goschenen
to Airolo
.
, Poland, the
nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed
in Asunción
, Paraguay
.
orders
its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
of Estonia
are quickly forced down.
and
Xerox introduce the DIX
standard for Ethernet, which is the first
implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s
speeds.
is destroyed by an earthquake, which claims more than 2,600
lives. After the quake, El Asnam is rebuilt and
changes its name to the city of Chlef
. railroads. Labour
Party.
's
television studio in Cincinnati
, holding 9 employees hostage for several hours
before releasing them and taking his own life.
.
refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until
December.
. Reagan's genial, witty performance causes
him to overtake Carter in the polls.
and
Honduras
sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute
fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of
Justice. government
recognizes Solidarity., proclaims
himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne. defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the
beginning of the Iran hostage
crisis.
space probe
Voyager I makes its closest
approach to Saturn, when it flies within
77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and
sends the first high resolution images of the world back to
scientists on Earth.
.
on the Las Vegas Strip
kills 85 people.
: a magnitude 7 earthquake
in southern Italy kills
approximately 4,800 people and leaves 300,000 homeless.
by Mark David
Chapman in front of The Dakota
apartment building in New York City.
, OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%.
," kills himself by overdose
on San
Quentin
prison death
row.
, Australia, decriminalizes
homosexual acts between consenting adults.
., California.| World population | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1975 | 1985 | |||||
 World |
4,434,682,000 | 4,068,109,000 | 4,830,979,000 |  396,297,000 |
|||
 Africa |
469,618,000 | 408,160,000 | 61,458,000 |
541,814,000 | 72,196,000 |
||
 Asia |
2,632,335,000 | 2,397,512,000 | 234,823,000 |
2,887,552,000 | 255,217,000 |
||
 Europe |
692,431,000 | 675,542,000 | 16,889,000 |
706,009,000 | 13,578,000 |
||
|
361,401,000 | 321,906,000 | 39,495,000 |
401,469,000 | 40,068,000 |
||
|
256,068,000 | 243,425,000 | 12,643,000 |
269,456,000 | 13,388,000 |
||
 Oceania |
22,828,000 | 21,564,000 | 1,264,000 |
24,678,000 | 1,850,000 |
||
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Justice (b. 1898) Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
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The Grateful Dead (b.
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