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June – The 1980 recession ends. June 1 – The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched. June 3 U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
2 April – 1980 St Pauls riot in Bristol. 3 April – Education Act institutes the Assisted Places Scheme (free or subsidised places for children attending fee-paying independent schools based on results in the schools' entrance examination and means tests), gives parents greater powers on governing bodies and over admissions, and removes ...
1980 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... June 1 – The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN), is launched.
Cronkite's last broadcast of the CBS Evening News would be on March 6, 1981. Died: Ricky Knotts, 28, American racing driver; in race crash at Daytona International Speedway [39] Michael Zaffarano, American organized crime boss for the Bonanno crime family, died of a heart attack after being surprised by a raid on his headquarters by the FBI. [40]
1980 – The Refugee Act is signed into law, reforming United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons; 1980 – The Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington on 18 May kills 57. 1980 – U.S. presidential election, 1980: Ronald Reagan is elected president, with George H. W. Bush elected vice president
9 January – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announces sanctions against the Soviet Union following its invasion of Afghanistan. [1]17 January – Debbie Wardley becomes Australia's first female pilot to take to the skies when she co-pilots a Fokker Friendship on Ansett Flight 232 on the so-called "milk run" from Alice Springs to Darwin. [2]
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
January 27, 1980: Canadian Embassy sneaks six U.S. diplomats out of Iran January 6, 1980: Indira Gandhi returned to power in India January 22, 1980: Soviet H-bomb inventor Andrei Sakharov arrested and moved to closed city January 18, 1980: Price of silver hits record high of $52.80 per ounce. The following events happened in January 1980: