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    1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1400 AH.


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      January 31 - The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is taken down and set on fire, killing 36 people.

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      March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
      March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. At his funeral six days later, 42 people are killed amid gunfire and bombs.

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      May 4 - Yugoslav 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 Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
      May 26 - John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.

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    June

      June 19 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.
      June 26 - A DC-9 belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Naples after an explosion occurs in the air - 81 people die - a bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
      June 27 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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      September 12 - Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence which leads to the execution of many young activists.

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