* 1980 – Matthew Carey, American actor

* 1980 – Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper

* 1980 – Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish ski racer

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )

* 1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist

* 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress

* 1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer

* 1980 – Monique Ganderton, Canadian actress and stunt-woman

* 1980 – András Horváth, Hungarian footballer

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer, producer, and actor

* 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Texas Battle, American actor

* 1980 – Nuria Cabanillas, Canadian-Spanish gymnast

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

* 1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland

Relations between the Republic of Vanuatu and Cuba began shortly after the former gained its independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, and began establishing its own foreign policy as a newly independent state.

In 2003, the NZBS further extended restrictions to preclude permanently donors who had received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom since January 1980, and in April 2006, restrictions were further extended to include the Republic of Ireland and France.

In the Czech Republic, anyone who spent more than six months in the UK or France between the years 1980 and 1996 or received transfusion in the UK after the year 1980 is not allowed to donate blood.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile of 1980

The first U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti arrived in October 1980.

However, the political process from Liberia's founding in 1847, despite widespread corruption, was very stable until the end of the First Republic in 1980.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

Social resistance to the policies of Marxist-Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the Solidarity, the first non-communist controlled trade union in the Warsaw Pact that was formed in the People's Republic of Poland in 1980.

Southern Rhodesia subsequently gained international recognition of its independence in April 1980, when it became the independent Republic of Zimbabwe.

The Chinese-backed Zimbabwe African National Union eventually took power in 1980, when the internationally-recognised Republic of Zimbabwe was formed.

On 30 July 1980, amidst the brief Coconut War, the Republic of Vanuatu was created.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In April 1980, under Babrak Karmal, the Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan were made law.

Category: Members of the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland ( 1976 – 1980 )

Category: Members of the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland ( 1980 – 1985 )

Subsequently, the nation became the short-lived state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia ; it was not until April 18, 1980, that the country was internationally recognized as independent as the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Shields was the author of several novels and short story collections, including The Orange Fish ( 1989 ), Swann ( 1987 ), Various Miracles ( 1985 ), Happenstance ( 1980 ), and The Republic of Love ( 1992 ).

As a professor of archaeology at UCLA from 1963 to 1989, Gimbutas directed major excavations of Neolithic sites in southeastern Europe between 1967 and 1980, including Anzabegovo, near Štip, Republic of Macedonia and Sitagroi and Achilleion in Thessaly ( Greece ).

He was one of the founding members of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980.

Article 22 of the 1980 Constitution of Chile states that all inhabitants of the Republic owe respect to Chile and to its national emblems.