1980-The Plunge — a gay BDSM bathhouse with a swimming pool on the northwest corner of 11th and Folsom ( in 1983 the swimming pool was covered over and became the surface of the dance floor of the popular bisexual dance club the Oasis ).

* 1980-The first est Training in Israel.

* 1980-The Plantation Historical Museum is founded ; population 48, 653.

* 1980-The airline changed its name to Airborne Express.

* 1980-The Moria Dwarves awaken Durin's Bane, a Balrog, which kills Durin VI, king of Khazad-dûm ; the Nazgûl return to Mordor and lay siege to Minas Ithil.

* November 1, 1980-The village of Chōkai gained town status.

* 1980-The first Women's National Collegiate Rowing Championship is held.

* 1980-The national economic malaise of the 1970s culminated in Detroit hosting the Republican National Convention which nominated Ronald Reagan who stayed at the Renaissance Center while in Detroit.

* 1980-The beginning of the golden era of Mashina Vremeni.

* 1980-The R14 TS gained a larger 1. 4 litre engine.

* 1980-The R14 LS was added, featuring the 1. 4 litre engine from the TS but a more basic equipment specification like the R14.

* 1980-The Institute of Energy Conversion at University of Delaware develops the first thin film solar cell exceeding 10 % efficiency using Cu2S / CdS technology.

* 1980-The small boat inshore cod fishery remained the main employment in this community, which in 1980 reported 22 full-time fisherman in 6 crews who drew each season for the traditional berths.

* 1980-The 1980 Azores Islands earthquake on January 1 devastated Terceira São Jorge and Graciosa islands happened at 4: 42 p. m. OST ( 6: 42 p. m. GMT ) measuring 7 on the Richter Scale.

In 1946, Herald-Traveler Corporation acquired Boston radio station WHDH.

In 1990, Mobil acquired the service station network of Esso Australia.

The NASA NDIF tracking station at Johannesburg, South Africa, acquired the spacecraft about 31 minutes after launch.

Before NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT & T's New York City station WEAF ( later WNBC, now CBS-owned WFAN ).

( Westinghouse later reclaimed the WJZ callsign when it acquired a Baltimore television station in 1959 ; WJZ-TV in Baltimore, and its sister radio station, are now owned by CBS.

ABC had just come into existence as a radio network in 1943 and did not enter network television until 1948, when it acquired a station in New York City.

The lighting of the courthouse was begun in 1915, when lights were acquired with the intention of stringing them from the railroad station to the town square for the state G. A. R.

In addition to a Hilton Hotel and the train station, Metropark also features the headquarters of Engelhard Corporation ( acquired by BASF in 2006 ) and Eaton Corporation's Filtration Division.

More land was acquired at Prospect Hill, near the Conanicut Battery site, for an observation and fire control station.

The community that grew up around the railroad station acquired a post office branch in 1852.

NBC shut down W9XR by 1933, just as it had done with WX9AP, which it acquired in its purchase of radio station WMAQ.

With the closure of Clayton West railway station and subsequent reopening of much of the branch line as Kirklees Light Railway, Shelley finally acquired a railway station in 1997.

In 1989, Selkirk was acquired by Maclean-Hunter, which was committed to returning the station to an alternative format.

The mid-1990s were another era of transition for CFNY as station owner Maclean-Hunter was acquired by Rogers Communications in 1994.

Although the synagogue survived Kristallnacht without damage, it was acquired by the municipality after the war and converted into a fire station.

Also in 2005 Siemens acquired Flender Holding GmbH ( Bocholt, Germany, gears / industrial drives ), Bewator AB ( building security systems ), Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control, Inc. ( Industrial and power station dust control systems ), AN Windenegrie GmbH.

His car was found abandoned 17 February 1995 at the Severn View service station near the Severn Bridge, which has since acquired notoriety for being a suicide spot.

The more prosperous AM stations, or their owners, acquired FM licenses and often broadcast the same programming on the FM station as on the AM station (" simulcasting ").

In 1999, Sinclair decided to exit radio station ownership, selling most of its radio stations, including WWKB, WBEN and WGR ( the latter being acquired by Sinclair in 1997 ), to Entercom Communications.

Most WB affiliates also had another standardization name branding scheme: In Lakeland, Florida a UHF station went all out and acquired the call letters WWWB and called their station " The WB-32.

When the company acquired WWN, they ran the station under its old name, essentially adding another sub region to their ownership, as in addition to operating these two, they also operated a region serving North and West Wales under the Teledu Cymru name.

And he began wooing station owners to convince them that a refurbished ABC was about to burst forth.

As part of this restoration programme, refurbished offices have opened on the east side of the station to replace the ones lost on the west side, and a new platform 0 opened underneath them on 20 May 2010.

Other mementos of the past are gone, including the ice plant, which was south of Bridge Road, and the old train station, which now, refurbished and relocated west of Hobe Sound, serves as an office building for Becker Groves and the Texaco station east of the Winn-Dixie plaza.

Recently there have been discussions to have the " T " stop in Pawtucket at the old train station ( which would be substantially refurbished ) or at a platform elsewhere on the line.

This plan went ahead and Embsay railway station was refurbished throughout the second half of the 70's and reopened in 1981.

The station has a newly refurbished Tea Room which is inside a Goods Warehouse.

The station building was rebuilt in the early 1920s when the line was modernised and was refurbished during late 2007 / early 2008 at street level with a modern tiling scheme inside and out, giving the station a more modern look.

The Brighouse bus station has been refurbished with funding from Metro and was re-opened in May 2009.

The station was refurbished in 2007 with the addition of new lighting, tiling and additional security cameras.

The tram station has been refurbished, and was the first to display the Metrolink corporate identity unveiled in 2008.

Since then the OCC Foundation, using funds designated for the Orange Coast College School of Sailing & Seamanship, has refurbished the facilities on the island, made significant capital improvements, and has helped fund the use of the island as a field station to teach summer classes in Island Ecology, Biological Diversity, Vertebrate Biology, Intertidal Ecology, kayaking, and photography.

* Meeting Creek, a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station.

In 2009 a statue of the collie, Ruswarp, was sited on the platform of the refurbished Garsdale railway station.

The town's railway station, which was refurbished at a cost of £ 1 million in 2009, is a northern terminus of Merseyrail, and the line continues, with a change from electric to diesel multiple units, through to Preston.

In February 2008 it opened the only bookshop in the newly refurbished St Pancras railway station, which became the Eurostar London terminal.

A Skyride station is also located nearby, which was newly refurbished for the 2010 season.

The station platforms were also refurbished with new wall tiling in the green, blue, black and white tiling scheme used later by Holden on many stations of the period and still visible at neighbouring St James's Park station.

A further revision in 2008, and subsequently rolled-out, re-emphasises the Calvert font, most obviously in posters and in signage at the refurbished Haymarket station in the centre of Newcastle.

The original station was partially refurbished in 2002 by Railtrack at a cost of £ 4 million.

A new gated northern access fronting Cornwall Street has been added, easing interchange with the Shadwell DLR station, whilst the rest of the station was also heavily refurbished.

During this time the station was heavily refurbished.