An Almanac

1980
March 27: in the North Sea oil platform collapses Norwegian Alexander Kielland, 123 persons dying of its crew of 212 people

December 8: New York, John Lennon (member of British rock group The Beatles) is assassinated by Mark David Chapman, a mentally disturbed who wanted to become a musician.

1981
April 1: U.S. launching the first mission of a space shuttle.

February 23 in Spain, members of the Civil Guard in front of lieutenant colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, entering the Congress of Deputies shot and interrupt the meeting, while it was conducting the vote for president to appoint Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo. The attempted coup was followed unevenly captaincies by the Spanish army generals, despite the Captain-General of Valencia, Jaime Milans del Bosch, ordered a curfew in the city and brought tanks to patrol the streets, as well as the Division Acorazada Brunete, quartering near Madrid was partially mobilized.

1982
February 14 - Physicists at Stanford University say that they have managed to detect a magnetic monopole.

September 1 - During the grave crisis exchange rate, fiscal and oil broke out in June 1981 in his report to Congress the president of Mexico José López Portillo nationalizes the entire Mexican banking system and establishes control widespread changes.


1983
February 24 - The Spanish government approves draft incompatibilities for senior positions.

August 30 - It killed the mayor of Santiago de Chile, General (R) Carol Urzúa, along with his two bodyguards at the hands of the Revolutionary Left Movement.

1984
January 4 - Israeli aerial bombardment on Lebanon causing more than 100 dead and 400 wounded in the region of Baalbek.

August 11, 1984 United States: Ronald Reagan gave the following words, while testing a microphone, without knowing who was in the air (his words were live radio): "Compatriots Americans, I am glad to say that today I signed a law that to outlaw Russia forever. We started bombing in five minutes. "

1985
February 21: The U.S. government suspended military relations with New Zealand and no longer regarded as an ally country.

March 1: Uruguay is restored democracy with the assumption of Julio Maria Sanguinetti as president.

1986
February 6: In the centre of Madrid, an ETA commando killed the admiral Christopher Columbus Carvajal and his driver.

February 18: Israeli troops occupy Lebanon again to free two hostages.

1987
June 12 - The former emperor of the Central African Empire, Jean-Bedel Bokassa is sentenced to death.

October 29 - Chile: The date was able to convene a general strike at the University of Chile, including almost all academic faculty, staff and students against the rector-designate Jose Luis Federici, paralysing the functions of the University for two months, until, in a major political victory, was replaced by Juan de Dios Vial.

1988
November 8 - George H. W. Bush, new president of U.S. after winning the Democrat Michael Dukakis.

Dec. 21 - Bombing of Lockerbie killed 270 people.

1989
February 6 - Thirty thousand Soviet soldiers leave Afghanistan, while the capital, Kabul, was plunged into chaos.

September 1 - Argentina, Entel is privatized by decree of President Carlos Menem.