1980 - January. 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 announces release of its first personal computer. January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giv ...

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1980 - January. January 3 - Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (murdered) (b. 1910) January 8 - John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907) January 10 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894) January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904) January 29 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893) January 30 - Professor Longhair, Ame ...

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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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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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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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Senior police officers warned that, despite greater surveillance, a terrorist attack on London on the scale of the Madrid train bombings was "inevitable". [5] Such an attack occurred when four bombs exploded in the London Underground and on a bus during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. A message claiming responsibility was posted on the Qal3ah forum in the name of 'The Secret Organisation Group of Al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in Europe'. In the op ...

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See also: 1979 in film 1980 1981 in film 1970s in film 1980s in film years in film film 1980 in film - Events. April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London. Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA) 1980 in film - Top three grossing films. North America St ...

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78 Diana (dye-an'-a) is a large and dark main belt asteroid. Its composition is carbonaceous and primitive. It was discovered by Robert Luther on March 15, 1863 and named after Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt. 78 Diana occulted a star on September 4, 1980. A diameter of 116 km was measured, closely matching the value given by the IRAS satellite. … | Previous minor planet | 78 Diana | Next m ...

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Ask a Stupid Question Day is a holiday celebrated in the United States by school students and teachers. Though Ask a Stupid Question Day takes place on September 28, it is observed on the last school day of September. The origins of this day are hard to trace, though it is believed the holiday was started in the 1980s by school teachers to encourage their students speak up and ask questions that the students would not have normally asked as they felt they were stupid questions. School teachers believe that the only stupid question is a qu ...

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A is an album by Jethro Tull. It was released on August 29, 1980 in the U.K. and September 1 of the same year in the United States. The album was recorded in the summer of 1980 using Maison Rouge Mobile and Maison Rouge Studios in Fulham, London. Eddie Jobson guested on the album, playing keyboards and electric violin. The album was produced by Ian Anderson and Robin Black. A was recorded as an intended Ian Anderson solo album before Tull's record label, Chrysalis, asked that it become credited to the group ...

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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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Wagga Brothers is an Australian rugby league team that plays in the Group 9 competition based in areas surrounding Wagga Wagga, regional New South Wales. Wagga Brothers - History. The first general meeting to form a senior club was 11 September 1979. The first game was played on the 23rd March 1980 against the Wagga Magpies in the Group 9 competition. The Wagga Brothers did not win a game in the Group 9 competition and had no other choice but to play in the Group 13 competition due to an exemption from Grou ...

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Dr. Thich Thien An (September 1926 - November 1980) was an influential teacher of Vietnamese Zen Buddhism who was active in the United States. Dr. Thich Thien-An came to the United States from Vietnam in the summer of 1966 as an exchange professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His students discovered that he was not only a renowned scholar, but a Zen Buddhist monk, as well. He was eventually convinced to teach the practice of Zen meditation to his students and ...

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Ed McMahon. The show's announcer and Carson's sidekick was Ed McMahon, who from the very first show would introduce Carson with a drawn-out "Heeeeeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" (something McMahon was inspired to do by the over-emphasized way he had introduced reporter Robert Pierrepoint on the NBC Radio show Monitor). McMahon, who had served the same purpose for Carson's ABC game show Who Do You Trust? for five years previously, would remain standing to the side a ...

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Béla Károlyi (born September 13, 1942 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania), is an world-renowned gymnastics coach. Together with his wife, Marta, Károlyi has coached United States and Romania Olympic teams to medal success. Károlyi's debut as a coach was in 1974. His Olympic coaching debut was during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. He was also a coach for Romania at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. During a Romanian team tour of the United States in 1981, he and his wife, Martha defected, getting ...

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Billy Blanks (born September 1, 1955) is a fitness guru, martial artist, actor, and the inventor of Taebo. Blanks was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the fourth of fifteen children. As a child he had dyslexia and a hip abnormality; he did not take up martial arts until the age of 14. However, he quickly excelled, winning several state, local and national championships. He is a seven-time world Karate champion, and holds a seventh-degree black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. In the 1980s, Blanks was the captain of the U.S. Olympic Karate team. ...

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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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Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; Hanyu Pinyin: Yáo Míng; born September 12, 1980 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese professional basketball player. He currently plays center for the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association. Yao Ming is the tallest active player in NBA basketball, listed at a playing height of 7 feet, 6 inches (2.29 m) and is rumored to be still growing. Yao Ming - CBA career. Yao Ming de ...

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