January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
June 10 » Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of death December 28, 1980
The temperature on December 28, 1980 was between -3.6 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 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 » The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
June 1 » Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
July 7 » Institution of sharia law in Iran.
September 30 » Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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