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1980
Events
January
January 1
– Changes to the
Swedish Act of Succession
make
Princess Victoria of Sweden
first in line to the throne ("heir apparent") and therefore Crown Princess, ahead of 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
Global Positioning System
time
epoch
begins at 00:00 UTC.
The president of
Sicily
,
Piersanti Mattarella
, is killed by the
Mafia
.
January 9
– In
Saudi Arabia
, 63
Islamist
insurgents are beheaded for their part in the
siege of the Great Mosque
in
Mecca
in November,
1979
.
January 11
–
Nigel Short
, 14, becomes the youngest
chess
player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
January 20
–
Cuba
recognizes the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
(SADR).
January 21
The
London Gold Fixing
hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a
troy ounce
.
is beached at
Brighton
, becoming a temporary tourist attraction.
At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at
Sincelejo
, Colombia.
January 22
–
Andrei Sakharov
,
Soviet
scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
January 24
– The
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
is ordered liquidated due to bankruptcy, and debt owed to creditors.
January 26
–
Israel
and
Egypt
establish diplomatic relations.
January 27
–
Canadian Caper
: Six United States
diplomats
, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from
Tehran
,
Iran
as they board a flight to
Zürich
, Switzerland on
Swissair
.
January 31
– The Spanish Embassy in
Guatemala
is
invaded and set on fire
, killing 36 people. It is called "Spain's own Tehran", similar to the 1979–80 Iran American hostage crisis.
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