* 1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from United Kingdom in 1980.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Category: United States bomber aircraft 1980 – 1989

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

However this account is questionable as Bill Haley never performed in the United States in 1980.

United States balance of trade ( 1980 – 2011 ), with negative numbers denoting a trade deficit

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.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

A similar policy applies to potential donors to the Australian Red Cross ' Blood Service, precluding people who have spent a cumulative time of six months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

The Singapore Red Cross precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of three months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

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.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

On 11 June 1980, the United States signed a treaty with the Cook Islands specifying the maritime border between the Cook Islands and American Samoa and also relinquishing its claim to the islands of Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga.

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

The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

The manual evolved from systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics, and from a manual developed by the United States Army, and was substantially revised in 1980.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

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.

* 1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.

To date, they have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup and have made just one appearance in the African Cup of Nations, back in 1980, where they finished last in their group with just 1 draw and 2 losses.

The University for Peace ( UPEACE ) was established in Costa Rica in 1980 “ to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations .”

* United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ( 1980 )

* 1980: The IUCN ( together with the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Wide Fund for Nature ) collaborate with UNESCO to publish a World Conservation Strategy

This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breaches one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; the Charter of the United Nations ; the Genocide Convention ; the United Nations Convention Against Torture ; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I ; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention ; and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

* United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO )-18 July 1980

Full-time transmission began at 6. 30pm on 24 October 1980 ( United Nations Day ), as Channel 0 / 28. The first program shown was a documentary entitled ' Who are we?

It largely contains tracks off the band's 1980 debut album Lightning to the Nations, with the non-LP single " Waited Too Long ", and its B-side " Play It Loud ", and " Streets of Gold ", which was the B-side to Diamond Head's 1980 single " Sweet and Innocent ".

Jay Silverheels ( May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980 ) was a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor.

After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.

Kirkpatrick then became a foreign policy adviser throughout Reagan's 1980 campaign and presidency and, after his election to the presidency, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held for four years.

The first ever world championship of box lacrosse, " The Nations in 1980 ", was staged in several arenas in British Columbia, Canada in July 1980 involving teams representing the United States, Australia, Canada East, Canada West and the Iroquois Nationals.

From 1977 to 1980, he served as an Ambassador at Large and Special Representative of President Jimmy Carter for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and head of the U. S. delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

From 1980 until 1992, Reich taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he wrote a series of influential books and articles, including The Next American Frontier and The Work of Nations.

In 1980 and 1981 Osborne advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Cambodian refugee problem.

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 declared that the Knesset's 1980 " Jerusalem Law " declaring Jerusalem as Israel's " eternal and indivisible " capital was " null and void and must be rescinded forthwith ".

He was excited about the band's style of music after purchasing its debut album Lightning to the Nations ( 1980 ).