thats happend in 1980

events of the year 1980:

January: 1th Earthquacke of 7.5 grades in azores island;

4th the president of U.S.A. ,jimmy carter, decree a seizure of cerials aganist the URSS whit the support of european cumunnity.

30th The Spanish Embassy in guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people.

frebruary:

3thFBI personnel target members of the congress of unated states in a sting operation.

22th The unated states Olympic Hockey Team defeats the sovient union in the semifinals of the winter olimpics, in the miracle on the ice.

March:
8th The first festival of rock music kicks off the soviet union
18th Fifty people are killed at thePleseks cosmodrome in russia when VOSTOK 2-M

rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.

April
25th crash of aDan- Air Boeing 727 inThenerife killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.

May:

4th yugoslab president tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgradefrom all over the world.

June:

19th Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the british Embassy in in bagdadThe unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.

September

17th After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union solidarity is established.

October

10th El Asnam in algeria is destroyed by an eathquacke which claimed more than 2,600 lives. After the quake, El Asnam is rebuilt and changes its name to the city of Chlef

December

16 th During a summit on the island of Bali OPECdecides to raise the price of petrolium by 10%.