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1980   News                           

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  • President Halts Grain To Russia Following Afghanistan Invasion 
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  • Carter Severs Diplomatic Ties To Iran. Khomeini Militants Hold Hostages 
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  • US Olympic Committee Votes To Boycott Moscow Summer Games 
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  • 125,000 Cuban Refugees Released By Castro Arrive In Miami 
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  • US Rescue Mission To Iran Fails, 8 Die As Two Aircraft Collide 
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  • Washington Volcano Mount Saint Helen Erupts , 22 Die 
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  • Iraq Invades Iran 
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  • John Lenon Is Shot To Death In New York 

    In The News
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  • Andrei Sakhorov Is Exiled to Gorky 
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  • Operation "Abscam" indicts 30 officials 
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  • Yugoslav leader Marshall Tito, 87 dies  
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  • Workers seize shipyards in Gdansk, Polish court recognizes Solidarity as umbrella union 
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  • Reagan defeats Charter 43 million to 35 Million 
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  • Gold hits 880 dollars per ounce 
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  • Inflation rate hits 13.5%, Prime rate hits 21% 
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  • Gang of four including Mao's wife go on trial in Beijing 
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  • 400 case of "Toxic Shock Syndrome" caused by certain kinds of Tampons 
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  • Trial of Elvis Presley's physician reveals Elvis took 10,000 pills in the 20 months prior his death 
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  • Fads, Rubik's Cube, Sony Walkman, Yoda 

       
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