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Toggle Events subsection. 1.1 January. 1.2 February. 1.3 March. ... 1980 was a leap year ... The largest state funeral in history is organized, with state delegations ...
He is sentenced to death by the jury; his execution is set for June 2, 1980. March 21 Mafioso Angelo Bruno is assassinated in Philadelphia. U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. March 22 – The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia. [3]
The history of the United States from 1980 until 1991 includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first three years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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.
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.
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
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