1980

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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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1980

Das Jahr 1980 markiert den Beginn der 1980er-Jahre. International steht es insbesondere im Zeichen der Geiselnahme von Teheran und dem Einmarsch der UdSSR in Afghanistan wodurch sich auch die Fronten im Ost-West-Konflikt nach der Entspannungspolitik der 1970er wieder verschärfen. Die USA und zahlreiche weitere Westmächte boykottierten die Olympischen Sommerspiele in Moskau. Auch der Beginn des acht Jahre andauernden Ersten Golfkriegs fällt ins Jahr 1980.