January 1980 calendar

January 1980
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in January 1980.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on January 1980: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of January 1980?

Events

01 Jan 1980 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins
02 Jan 1980 US President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to Moscow.
03 Jan 1980 Gold hits record US$634 an ounce.
04 Jan 1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
06 Jan 1980 Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
07 Jan 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation approving $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
09 Jan 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
10 Jan 1980 Last broadcast of Rockford Files on NBC
11 Jan 1980 Debut of Pretenders
12 Jan 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
13 Jan 1980 King of Schnorrers closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 performances
14 Jan 1980 Blues Brothers movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens
16 Jan 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
17 Jan 1980 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3.
18 Jan 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
20 Jan 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
21 Jan 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
22 Jan 1980 Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
24 Jan 1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is ordered to be liquidated due to bankruptcy.
25 Jan 1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
26 Jan 1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
27 Jan 1980 Near Livermore, California, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs.
28 Jan 1980 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman and Sally Field win.
29 Jan 1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
31 Jan 1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41.
10 Jan 1980 The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.[26]