January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death February 3, 1980
The temperature on February 3, 1980 was between 2.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
February 24 » The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.
February 25 » The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
May 18 » Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3billion in damage.
September 12 » Military coup in Turkey.
September 26 » At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.
Day of cremation February 7, 1980
The temperature on February 7, 1980 was between 3.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
September 1 » Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
November 28 » Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
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