February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
Day of death May 16, 1980
The temperature on May 16, 1980 was between 7.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
July 23 » Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
July 30 » Vanuatu gains independence.
September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October 29 » Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
Day of cremation May 20, 1980
The temperature on May 20, 1980 was between 8.2 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
May 27 » The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
September 30 » Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
October 10 » The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
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