1980 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1980?
- January 1, 1980 – Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
- January 7, 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- January 26, 1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
- February 16, 1980 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 24, 1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
- March 20, 1980 – The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
- March 24, 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- March 27, 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- April 20, 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- May 17, 1980 – 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.
- June 10, 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
- July 10, 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- August 1, 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
- August 14, 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- August 31, 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
- September 16, 1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- September 18, 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
- September 22, 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
- October 24, 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
- October 30, 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
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