After the base closed, it was transformed into the Charleston Correctional Facility, which opened in 1980.

In 1980, it looked like Joe was headed to AAA Charleston -- until Andre Thornton was felled by a knee injury, giving Charboneau his shot at the big leagues.

Wise's political career began in 1980, when he defeated an incumbent senator for election to the state Senate of West Virginia as a Democrat from the state capital, Charleston.

* No Second Wind ( 1980 ), featuring Sheriff Chick Charleston

The RiverDogs were founded in 1980 as the Charleston Royals, and were a farm team of the Kansas City Royals.

The Charleston Trust is a charity set up in 1980 to restore and maintain the home of the Bloomsbury Group artists for the benefit of the public.

In 2006, Cremins returned to coaching at the College of Charleston, hoping to restore the basketball program there to the status of a significant team in college basketball that it experienced under coach John Kresse from 1980 to 2002.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

1980 — Cook Islands – United States Maritime Boundary Treaty establishes the Cook Islands – American Samoa boundary

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

From 1950 to 1980, DDT was extensively used in agriculture — more than 40, 000 tonnes were used each year worldwide — and it has been estimated that a total of 1. 8 million tonnes have been produced globally since the 1940s.

In 1994 he compared model results to observed temperatures and found that the predicted temperatures for 1950 – 1980 deviated from the temperatures that had actually occurred, from which he concluded in his regular column in The Washington Times — with the headline that day " Climate Claims Wither under the Luminous Lights of Science "— that climate models are faulty.

Between 1980 and 1983, 20 percent of the work force was unemployed — double the percentage of the late 1970s.

* 1980 — Walter J. Mead ( Professor of Economics, UCSB )

) The number 802 was simply the next free number IEEE could assign, though “ 802 ” is sometimes associated with the date the first meeting was held — February 1980.

* 1980 Stock — Replacement stock

This idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying ..." — Robert Smith 2003 ( about the Peake character that inspired the early Cure song The Drowning Man in 1980 )

Marino Marini ( 27 February 1901 Pistoia — 6 August 1980 Viareggio ) was an Italian sculptor.

Burning Britain — The History of UK Punk 1980 – 1984 ( London: Cherry Red Books ).

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

In January 1980, the production of Hypnotised was finished at Eden Studios in London, with the Undertones recording the three further songs written the previous December, plus two further songs — " Hypnotised " and a cover of " Under The Boardwalk " — which had been written that month.

" Wednesday Week "— the second single to be released from Hypnotised — was released in July, 1980.

Between September and December 1980, the Undertones performed two further tours: the ' Disaster Tour ( European Style )', which saw the band perform in continental Europe and — in December — the ' See No More ' tour of the UK.

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980.

In the summer of 1980 University of Virginia classmates John Taylor and Kelton Flinn wrote Dungeons of Kesmai, a six player game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons which used Roguelike ASCII graphics.

The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.

Carpenter followed up the success of Halloween with The Fog ( 1980 ), a ghostly revenge tale ( co-written by Hill ) inspired by horror comics such as Tales from the Crypt and by The Crawling Eye, a 1958 movie about monsters hiding in clouds.

Between 1975 and 1980, she created such characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, an obnoxious woman with wild black hair whose trademark complaint, " It's always something -- if it ain't one thing, it's another ", gave her autobiography its title, and who would tell stories about the gross habits of celebrities on the show's " Weekend Update " news segment, inspired in name and appearance by Rose Ann Scamardella, a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City.

Although inspired by The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, the 1980 movie The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, used aerial shots of the Timberline Lodge as part of its opening scene.

In 1980, Record Mirror voted the band number one for the most inspired comeback of the year.

By 1980, even Lennon was envious of Wings ' ( and McCartney's ) continuing success, which largely inspired Lennon's own comeback that year.

The performances were widely seen and heard on the 1980 live album and the UK-only movie of the benefit and inspired other rock performers to emulate Townshend.

Potter later returned to similar territory with Blade on the Feather ( 1980 ), inspired by the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, although in this drama the protagonist Jason Cavendish ( Donald Pleasence ) is clearly modeled after Philby.

His films include, the psycho-thriller Sisters ( 1973 ), a film about dual personalities and with music from Hitchcock's frequent and favorite collaborator, composer Bernard Herrmann, Obsession ( 1976 ) which was somewhat inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill ( 1980 ), the assassination thriller Blow Out ( 1981 ) told about a sound-effects man who witnessed the ' accidental ' killing of the governor and the erotic Body Double ( 1984 ) which was about a struggling B-movie actor who became involved in a tale of intrigue and mystery involving his erotic next-door ' body double ' neighbor.

In June 1980 they issued the single, " Slogun ", with lyrics inspired by the Marxist manifesto: " Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace / Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health / Therapy through violence!

In August 1980, Benatar released her LP, Crimes of Passion, featuring her signature song " Hit Me with Your Best Shot " along with the controversial song " Hell is for Children ", which was inspired by reading a series of articles in the New York Times about child abuse in America.

Kurtis Mantronik ( Kurtis el Khaleel ), a Jamaican-Canadian émigré, began experimenting with electro music in the early 1980s, inspired by early electro tracks like " Riot in Lagos " ( 1980 ) by Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto.

At the time of their first self-titled EP, in 1980, the band changed their name to Red Cross, which was allegedly inspired by the masturbation scene in the film, The Exorcist.

The first of its kind when it opened in 1980, WPZ's savanna inspired the building of similar exhibits across the country.

A refurbished and decorated 1980 Ford Denning ( resembling bus used in the film ) featuring a giant steel stiletto heel which extended from and retracted into the roof — inspired by some of the scenes from the film — was paraded around the Olympic Stadium.

First published in 1980, Where's Spot was inspired by the reaction of Eric's two-year-old son to an advert in which lifting the flap revealed a funny picture and to a bedtime story made up to go along with it.

In 1967 Sutherland returned to Wales and was once again inspired by the landscape, regularly working in the region until his death in 1980.

In March 1980, about a month before his death, he was interviewed by his assistant, Benny Lévy, and within these interviews he expressed his interest in Judaism which was inspired by Levy's renewed interest in the faith.

In 2002, The Economist magazine said, " Possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century was the Bayh-Dole act of 1980.