January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death December 17, 1980
The temperature on December 17, 1980 was between 0.9 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
September 18 » Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
October 10 » The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
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