1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1400 AH.

Events

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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 6 - President of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by mafia
• January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
• January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, sixty three Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.
• January 11 - Nigel Short, fourteen years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
• January 22 - Andrei Sakharov, a Russian scientist and human right activist, is arrested in Moscow.
• January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• January 31 - Takedown of the embassy of Spain in Guatemala; the embassy was then set on fire, killing 36 people.

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1980. Keith Green. So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt. "Pledge My Head to Heaven" with Bob Dylan on harmonica: http://bit.ly/8YxWbK
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1980. Keith Green. So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt. "Pledge My Head to Heaven" with Bob Dylan on harmonica: http://bit.ly/8YxWbK

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