A study funded by the UK Burmese Cat Club in 1980 was inconclusive when seeking causes.

* 1910 – Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer ( d. 1980 )

The Constitution of Chile was approved in a national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

To match the USA's military buildup, the Soviet Union increased its own military spending to 27 % of its GDP and froze production of civilian goods at 1980 levels, causing a sharp economic decline in the already failing Soviet economy.

__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.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

* 1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo

Luís Cabral served from 1974 to 1980, when a military coup d ' état led by João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira deposed him.

After the military coup, in 1980 PAIGC admitted in its official newspaper " Nó Pintcha " ( dated November 29, 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

Before the military buildup began in fiscal year ( FY ) 1980, United States military assistance to Honduras was less than US $ 4 million.

Amnesty International estimated that at least 184 people were " disappeared " during from 1980 to 1992 in Honduras, most likely by the Honduran military.

From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ).

Rioting ensued throughout Liberia, finally leading to a military coup d ' état in April 1980.

Between 1980 and 2006, Liberia was governed by a series of military and transitional governments.

After training he went to work for the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves, who were at the time destabilizing Turkey, which led to a military coup in 1980.

The West responded to the Soviet military actions by boycotting the Moscow Olympics of 1980 and providing clandestine support to the Mujahadeen, including Osama bin Laden, as a means to challenge the Soviet Union.

His succession had been decided as early as 1980, with the support of the military and party apparatus.

International law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets, but use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ( CCW ) in 1980.

Because of its location, it became the site of military facilities used first by the British and then by the United States, following an access agreement signed in 1980 by the United States and Oman.

* 1903 – Pierre Garbay, French army general and military governor of Paris ( d. 1980 )

Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose ( in constant 2000 dollars ) from $ 267. 1 billion in 1980 ( 4. 9 % of GDP and 22. 7 % of public expenditure ) to $ 393. 1 billion in 1988 ( 5. 8 % of GDP and 27. 3 % of public expenditure ); most of those years military spending was about 6 % of GDP, exceeding this number in 4 different years.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup.

The constitution first approved in 1980 and substantially revised in 1992 forms the basis of government organization.

In 1980, after Tito's death, economic, political, and religious difficulties started to mount and the federal government began to crumble.

In reaction to this report, the UK government banned anyone who had received a blood transfusion since January 1980 from donating blood.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

The opening of the Tilbury container docks, further east in Essex, rendered them redundant and in 1980 the British government gained control.

services, government, and commerce 60, 6 %, industry 21, 2 %, agriculture 18, 2 % ( 1980 )

In late 1980, the government was overthrown in a relatively bloodless coup led by Prime Minister and former armed forces commander João Bernardo Vieira.

From November 1980 to May 1984, power was held by a provisional government responsible to a Revolutionary Council headed by President João Bernardo Vieira.

* 1980: The Solidarność movement under Lech Walesa begin opposition to the Communist government in Poland.

From 1962 until 1980, the U. S. donated $ 280 million in aid to Liberia, in exchange for which Liberia offered its land free of rent for U. S. government facilities.

After the 1980 coup d ’ état he served some time in Doe ’ s government until he was sacked in 1983 on accusation of embezzling government funds.

Following the dissolution of the Republican Party in 1876, the True Whig Party dominated the Liberian government until the 1980 coup, eventually creating what was effectively a one-party state.

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.

His efforts at consolidating the single-party government were challenged in 1980 by student-led anti-government demonstrations, which were brutally put down by three coup attempts.

His efforts at consolidating the single-party government were challenged in 1980 by student-led anti-government demonstrations, which were brutally put down, and by three coup attempts.

Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this threat, the apartheid regime in South Africa continued to finance the destabilization of Mozambique.

* 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.

* 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60 % vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.