The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

A new Constitution was approved by plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term.

In the Netherlands, conservatives merged into a new Christian democratic party in 1980.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

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.

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

* The Making of the English Working Class London: Victor Gollancz ( 1963 ); 2nd edition with new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, third edition with new preface 1980.

The peak of these incidents would occur in 1980 with new recruit Phil Carman making headlines for head-butting an umpire.

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

The new Holden WB commercial vehicles and the Statesman WB limousines were introduced in 1980.

In 1980 a new Vadstena Municipality was split off.

The West Stand was opened in 1977 and the new East Terrace was completed by March 1980.

However, his government lost a vote of confidence in 1980 and was replaced by a new cabinet headed by Sir Julius Chan as prime minister.

The term " paraphilia " was introduced in the DSM-III ( 1980 ) as a subset of the new category of " psychosexual disorders ".

After Higson graduated in 1980, he moved in with Whitehouse, working by day as a decorator and performing at night and the weekends with his new punk-funk group The Higsons.

After a seven-year hiatus brought on by poor health, Heinlein produced five new novels in the period from 1980 ( The Number of the Beast ) to 1987 ( To Sail Beyond the Sunset ).

Permanent Waves ( 1980 ) dramatically shifted Rush's style of music via the introduction of reggae and new wave elements.

* The Illuminati Papers ( 1980 ) collection of essays and new material

In September 1980, President Choi Kyu-ha was forced to resign from president to give way to the new military leader, Chun Doo-hwan.

* 1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Picochet.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

In 1980 Richman again formed a new Modern Lovers, with Keranen, drummer Michael Guardabascio and backing singers Ellie Marshall and Beth Harrington.

A new constitution, drafted by the military, was rejected in a November 1980 referendum.

In fact, it was the success of the compilation film, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie in 1980, featuring the archived film of these characters that prompted Warner Brothers to organize Warner Brothers Animation as a new production division to restart production of original material.

* 1980 – Houcine Camara, French singer

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company.

* Imanol Harinordoquy ( born 1980 ), French international rugby union player ( born in Bayonne, but grew up in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port )

In 1980, at the invitation of the French Minister of Culture, she founded the baroque dance company " Ris et Danceries ".

* 1980 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer ( b. 1914 )

* 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist

* 1980 – Sinik, French singer and rapper

* 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer

* 1886 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Eva Green, French actress

* 1980 – Steed Malbranque, French footballer

* 1980 – Sandra Laoura, French skier

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

25, 1980 ) French writer, critic and lexicologist

* 1980 – Gennaro Bracigliano, French footballer

* 1980 – Michaël Llodra, French tennis player

* 1980 – Sebastien Frey, French footballer

* 1980 – Alfred Plé, French Olympic rower ( b. 1888 )

The second novel of this series, Therese and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel ( Thérèse et Pierrette à l ' école des Saints-Anges, 1980 ), was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, Le combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was championed by union activist Monique Simard.

* 1915 – Roland Barthes, French critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

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

Weir's lyrics have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, but the French lyrics remain unaltered.

* 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher ( d. 1980 )