Main article: October surprise conspiracy During the Iran hostage crisis, the Republican challenger Ronald Reagan feared a last-minute deal to release the hostages, which would hand incumbent Jimmy Carter a goodwill vote winning the election. Due to the release of the hostages at the precise moment of Reagan's inauguration on January 20, 1981, rumors surfaced that the Reagan campaign made a "secret hostage deal with the Iranian government" whereby the Iranians would hold the hostages until Reagan was inaugurated, ensurin ...

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1980 - January. January 1 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model January 2 - Rebekah Teasdale, British model and journalist January 7 - Gabriela Bazan, Peruvian activist January 8 - Rachel Nichols, American actress January 9 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer January 11 - Mike Williams, American football player January 14 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player January 16 - Albert Pujols, Dominican Major League Baseball player January 16 - Michelle ...

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1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH. 1980 - Events. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...

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The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, or Budapest Treaty, is an international treaty signed in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 1977. It entered into force on August 9, 1980, and was later amended on September 26, 1980. The treaty is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As of October 2005, 61 countries were party to the Budapest Treaty. The accession to the Treaty is open to States party to the Paris Conve ...

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1980 in aviation - January. January 8 - a Mooney 231 lands in San Francisco, after flying coast to coast non-stop, setting a record by completing the flight in 8 hours and 4 minutes. January 16 - British Island Airways and Air Anglia merge to form Air UK. 1980 in aviation - February. an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18 flies 30,000 km (18,642 miles) from Moscow to the Molod ...

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May May 13 - Antonov An-3 June June 20 - Beechcraft Commuter June 24 - Microturbo Microjet 200 July July 12 - KC-10 Extender July 23 - Aérospatiale Dauphin II August August 11 - Learjet Longhorn 50 August 16 - EMBRAER Tucano August 19 - Boeing Vertol Model 234 September September 26 - Shanghai Y-10 November ...

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U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums and vocals. U2 has been one of the most popular rock bands in the world since the 1980s. According to the RIAA, they have sold approximately 50.5 million albums in the U.S., had six #1 albums in the U.S. and are widely considered as one of the most successful groups of the last 25 years. The band is also very politically a ...

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U2 - Formation and breakthrough 1976 – 1980 U2 - Boy and October 1980 – 1981 U2 - War 1983 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire and Live Aid 1984 – 1986 U2 - The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum 1987 – 1989 U2 - Achtung Baby Zoo TV and Zooropa 1991 – 1994 U2 - Pop and Popmart 1996 – 1998 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind and Elevation 2000 – 2001 U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Vertigo 2004 – U2 - Next album recordings 2006 – 2007 U2 - Other projects
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The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organise the Olympics was Los Angeles. The choice between them was made on October 23, 1974 on the 75th IOC session. Moscow defeated Los Angeles by 39 votes to 20. The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football (soccer) tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk. 1980 Summer Olympics - Highlights. Although approxima ...

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Banyan is an old-time networking company which around the 1980s produced VINES, a network protocol and set of utilities. It was once a competitor in the file server market with Novell, Inc. and others. VINES also included StreetTalk Directory Services, one of the first viable directory services to appear in a network operating system (akin to LDAP). In October 1999 Banyan became ePresence, an internet service provider. At the same time, it announc ...

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The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, or Budapest Treaty, is an international treaty signed in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 1977. It entered into force on August 9, 1980, and was later amended on September 26, 1980. The treaty is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As of October 2005, 61 countries were party to the Budapest Treaty. The accession to the Treaty is open to States party to the Paris Conve ...

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Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigade Van Meerhaegue on October 12, 1955, in Tourcoing, France) is a notable French porn actress who began her career at the age of 20 performing in pornographic films from 1976 through 1980. In 1980, having become a kind of idol of French X-rated film industry's golden age, she decided to put an end to her hardcore career and appeared in more "traditional" movies and "big" productions, such as I comme Icare (Henri Verneuil, 1980) in which she played a prostitute, and in Pour la peau d'u ...

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In the mathematical area of order theory, completeness properties assert the existence of certain infima or suprema of a given partially ordered set. A special use of the term refers to complete partial orders or complete lattices. However, many other interesting notions of completeness exist. The motivation for considering completeness properties derives from the great importance of suprema (least upper bounds, joins, "") and infima (greatest lower bounds, meets, "") to the theory of partial orders. Finding a supremum means to ...

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1980 in South Africa - January. 12 January - The British Sports Council begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in sport 14 January - Local community at Soekmekaar resist forced removal and damage police station 25 January - Three Umkhonto we Sizwe operatives Stephen Mafoko, Humphrey Makhubo and Wilfred Madela held the staff and customers in a Silverton bank in Pretoria hostage. This was followed by a shoot-out with the police in which two civili ...

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Hans Asperger (February 18, 1906 – October 21, 1980) was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger's Syndrome is named. Born in Vienna, Asperger published the first definition of Asperger's Syndrome in 1944. In four boys, he identified a pattern of behavior and abilities that he called "autistic psychopathy," meaning autism (self) and psychopathy (personality disease). The pattern included "a lack of empathy, little ability to form friendships, one-sided conversation, intense absorption in a special interest, and clumsy movements." Asperger called children with AS "little professors" because of their ability to ...

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Prince Vong Savang was born in September 27, 1931-(d.1981?), at the Royal Palace Luang Prabang, Laos. His father was King Savang Vatthana amd mother was Queen Khamphoui. He died at the hands of the communists in a so-called "seminar camp" in Laos ca. 1980, probably executed, or starved to death. He became the Crown Prince on October 20, 1962, and married Princess Mahneelai, and they had four sons and three daughters. Their children are Prince Soulivong Savang, Prince Thayavong Savang, Prince Kiranvong Savang, Prince Anourathavarman Savang, Princess Manisophana Savang, Princ ...

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Christopher Timothy (born October 14, 1940) is a Welsh-born actor best known for playing James Herriot in the television series All Creatures Great and Small. Timothy was born in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. His T.V. career started in the 1969 series Take Three Girls. He went on to appear in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in 1973 and Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle in 1977 before winning the role of Herriot. He played the role from 1978 until 1980 and again between 1988 and 1990. In 2000 he was cast as ...

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Christopher Black Cannon (born October 20, 1950) is a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the Republican Party, representing the third district of Utah (map), since 1997. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and attended Brigham Young University. From 1980 until 1996 he was a lawyer and business owner. Notable jobs include time as a solicitor for the department of the interior from 1983 to 1986, and time as Utah Republican Party finance chairman from 1992 unti ...

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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 - 1 July 1980) was a scientist and novelist. Born in Leicester, he was educated at University College, Leicester and Cambridge University, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. He served as a Minister in the Labour government of Harold Wilson. Snow is most noted for his lectures and books regarding his concept of "The Two Cultures", as developed in The Two C ...

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William A. "Pat" Patterson (October 1899 — 1980) was the president of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966. Patterson was born on a sugar plantation on Oahu, Hawaii. When Patterson was 13, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco, California, while he remained at Honolulu Military Academy. Not liking the academy, he decided to leave. He persuaded a captain to allow him to work on his ship in exchange for passage to San Francisco. Instead of finishing high school in San Francisco, Patterson became an office worker at W ...

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