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[edit] Events of 1980

[edit] January

• January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Victoria of Sweden Crown Princess over her younger brother.
• January 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
• January 6 - GPS time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia.
• January 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

January 22: Andrei Sakharov arrested.

• January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.
• January 11 - Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
• January 20 - The Pittsburgh Steelers become the first NFL franchise to win 4 Super Bowls, defeating the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV 31-19 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
• January 21 - The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a troy ounce. The MS Athina B is beached at Brighton, becoming a temporary tourist attraction.
• January 22 - Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.

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• January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• January 27 - Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, thus ending the Canadian caper operation.
• January 31 - The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is taken down and set on fire, killing 36 people.

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[edit] February

• February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel are targeting members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.
• February 2-February 3 - The infamous New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot takes place: 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.
• February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
• February 10 - Prathap VS born in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
• February 13 - The XIII Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• February 15 - In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea.

February 22: Olympic "Miracle on Ice"

• February 22 - The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.
• February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
• February 25 - A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron. Leaders Desi Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
• February 27 - M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.

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[edit] March

• March 1 - The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
• March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• March 4 - Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
• March 8 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union
• March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
• March 18 - Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
• March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks.
• March 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
• March 21 - Mafioso Angelo Bruno is assassinated in Atlantic City.
• March 24 - The Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
• March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. At his funeral 6 days later, 42 people are killed amid gunfire and bombs.
• March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles, killing 23.
• March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• March 27 - The Silver Thursday market crash occurs.
• March 28 - Talpiot Tomb is found in Jerusalem.
• March 31 - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operate final train.

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[edit] April

• April 1 - The Mariel boatlift from Cuba begins.
• April 1 - New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days.
• April 2 - The St. Pauls riot breaks out in Bristol.
• April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
• April 10 - Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969.
• April 12 - Samuel Kanyon Doe takes over Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
• April 18 - Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
• April 19 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the song, What's Another Year.
• April 21 - Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon, but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award.
• April 24 - Pennsylvania Lottery Scandal: the Pennsylvania Lottery is rigged by 6 men including the host of the live TV drawing, Nick Perry.
• April 24-April 25 - Operation Eagle Claw, 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.
• April 25 - crash of a Dan-Air Boeing 727 in Tenerife killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.
• April 26 - Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Australia
• April 27 - The Dominican embassy siege ends with all hostages released and the guerrillas flying to Cuba.
• April 30 - Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives.
• April 30 - Luis Muñoz Marín, the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at the age of 82.
• April 30 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix ascends to the throne.

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The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a plot to rig the Daily Number, a three digit game the Pennsylvania Lottery offers. ... The Pennsylvania Lottery is the state lottery of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ... Nick Perry (1916-2003) A television and radio personality who became infamous after being indicted in a scandal involving the rigging of the Pennsylvania Lottery. ... is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants United States Iran Commanders Col. ... is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dan-Air (Dan Air Services Limited) is a defunct airline based in the United Kingdom. ... Flag of Tenerife Tenerife in the Canary Islands chain. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Beatrix (born January 31, 1938 as Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld) has been the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since April 30, 1980. ... The thrones for The Queen of Canada, and the Duke of Edinburgh (back) in the Canadian Senate, Ottawa are usually occupied by the Governor General and his/her spouse at the annual State Opening of Parliament. ...

[edit] May

• May 4 - Yugoslav 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).
• May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
• May 9 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the 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.
• May 9 - The Norco shootout takes place.
• May 11 - Mobster Henry Hill busted on drug possession.
• May 17 - A Miami, Florida court acquits 4 White police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a Black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots.
• May 17 - On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
• May 18-May 27 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
• May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released
• May 20 - 1980 Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
• May 24 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
• May 25 - Indianapolis 500: 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.
• May 26 - John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
• May 26 - In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.

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• June 1 - In Los Angeles, comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
• June 3 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250.
• June 3 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
• June 10 - Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, which says in part: 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[1]
• June 10 - A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
• June 19 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.
• June 20 - Augusta AVA became the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
• June 22 - West Germany beats Belgium 2-1 to win the Euro 80.
• June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash.
• June 23-September 6 - 1980 United States heat wave
• June 25 - A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
• June 26 - A McDonnell Douglas DC-9 belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Palermo 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.
• June 27 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
• June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir is elected president of Iceland.