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June 23–September 6 – The 1980 United States heat wave claims 1,700 lives. June 27 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 19 and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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.
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.
At 7:38 a.m. in Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. [57] A 1,400-foot (430 m) section of the bridge collapsed, killing 35 people. Twenty-three of the dead had been the passengers and driver of a Greyhound bus that had just departed St. Petersburg, Florida as one of its stops on the way ...
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1980 May: race riots in ... Florida Historical Quarterly. 79 (3): ... Viva Florida: History Happened Here. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities. This page was last ...
The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the Cardozo and the Carlyle, reopened in 1978.
The following events happened in July 1980: July 30, 1980: Israel's parliament votes for Jerusalem reunification and annexes former Jordanian territory in East Jerusalem (green) to Israel's West Jerusalem (blue) [ 2 ]