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1980 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.
The 1980 United States Census begins. There are 226,545,805 United States residents on this day. New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days. April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4 ...
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
October 1980 events in the United States (1 C, 4 P) November 1980 events in the United States (6 C, 20 P) December 1980 events in the United States (1 C, 8 P)
Libya's president Muammar Gaddafi announced a currency exchange program and the introduction of new Libyan dinar banknotes for the five and ten dinar denominations (worth, at the time, $16 and $32) and directed that citizens would be allowed one week to exchange their existing notes at the Central State Bank branches, after which only the old 5 ...
The following events happened in December 1980: December 1, 1980 (Monday) ... The explosion happened at 2:12 in the morning local time; the accident is listed in some ...
The U.S. Department of Energy released its emergency plans for gasoline rationing in the event of a fuel shortage during the summer. Features of the plan, which never needed to be implemented, included a four-day workweek, requirements that car drivers choose three days per week not to drive, limiting gasoline purchases to $7.00, and allowing gasoline to be bought only on odd or even numbered ...
The following events happened in July 1980: ... States to adopt a calendar of year-round school as ... were on a 3-week vacation at any given time for every 9 weeks ...