Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and before the height of role-playing games, SJG created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes.

Founded in 1980, Toronto Ultimate Club based in Toronto, has 3300 members and 250 teams, playing year round.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Founded in 1966, the ski hill operated intermittently due to varying conditions, and seldom after 1980.

Founded in 1980, the annual event of traditional folk dance and song has become the focal point for the largest gathering of dance teams and musicians in the South of England.

Founded in 1980 by members of Chichester Hockey Club as a fund-raising event, the festival has grown in size and ambition.

Founded in 1869, the party dominated Liberian politics from 1878 until 1980 to the extent that the country was virtually a one-party state, although opposition parties were never outlawed.

Founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, the A. R. T.

Founded in 1974, Monaghan County Museum is recognised as one of the leading provincial museums in Ireland, with a prestigious Council of Europe Award conferred in 1980, among others, to its credit.

Founded as the Lutheran Bible Institute of Seattle in 1944, the school was located in Seattle for nearly four decades before moving to the Providence Heights campus in Issaquah, Washington, in 1980.

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Founded in 1980 by Luiz Mott, in the city of Salvador, Bahia, the GGB was registered as a non-profit organization in 1983, and was declared a public service organization of the city of Salvador in 1987.

Founded in 1980, the NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust is an organisation involved in forest restoration.

Founded in 1980 by David Blatter with a single armored car in Missoula, Montana, the company now stretches throughout the western US, providing service to Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, North Dakota, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state.

Founded in 1980 in New Orleans as an independent union of Hyatt employees, the union became part of SEIU in 1984.

Founded November 10, 1980, the station is broadcast locally in high-definition on channel 43 ( virtual channel 69. 1 ).

Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas ( 1980 ), and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec.

Founded in 1980, it is located in the 1905 Summit School building, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Founded in 1980, it specialises in manufacturing ultrafiltration membranes and provides engineering support for its worldwide plants.

Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they became successful outside their native country.

Founded in 1980 as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. ( which was renamed " Panasonic Corporation " on October 1st, 2008 ) soccer club in Nara Prefecture and a member of the Japan Soccer League.

Founded in November, 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS was officially registered on March 19, 2000 in Vatican City as a foundation.

Founded as the Lothian Specialist Music School in 1980, it changed its name in 1996 when Lothian Regional Council was dissolved into four separate unitary councils.

Founded in 1980, it is one of the first niche-oriented television providers in the United States.

Founded in 1980 in New York City's Chinatown, the museum began as the New York Chinatown History Project by historian John Kuo Wei Tchen and community resident and activist Charles Laiand to promote a better understanding of Chinese American history and to address the concern that " the memories and experiences of aging older generations would perish without oral history, photo documentation, research and collecting efforts.

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, ISU is classified as a Research University with very high research activity ( RU / VH ) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly.

Founded in 1923 as the first Catholic university in the Netherlands, it used to be called ( Catholic ) University of Nijmegen until 2004, when it took its current name.

Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896 .< ref >

Founded in 1969, it traces its roots back to its two earlier predecessor organizations, St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College, founded in 1855 and 1860 respectively.

Founded by Pope Pius V ( Antonio Ghislieri ) in 1567, since 18th century laically managed, nowadays under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, it is ranked among high qualifying institutions by the Italian Ministry for Education and University.

Founded as the Missouri Dental College in 1866, the Washington University School of Dental Medicine was the first dental school west of the Mississippi River and the sixth dental school in the U. S. The school closed in 1991.

Founded in 1836, the University at first comprised just two colleges: University College London, which previously had no official chartered status and did not apply religious tests to its students, and King's College, which had been chartered since 1829 and which admitted only members of the Church of England.

Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Founded in 1996 and awarded University status in 2002, it consists of the Lagos Business School and of Enterprise Development Services.

Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany.

Founded in 1966 ( after operating as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta since 1945 ) the U of C is composed of 14 faculties and more than 85 research institutes and centres.

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the state university in Northern France was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then as Université de Lille with faculty expansion from Douai to Lille from mid-19th century onwards.

Founded in 1889 as the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for Women, Georgia College and State University has since grown to become the state's premier public liberal arts university.

Founded in 1848, University of Wisconsin – Madison is the largest university in the state, and the flagship of the UW System, with a total enrollment of over 41, 000 students, of whom approximately 30, 000 are undergraduates.

Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origination to a group of Baptists from White Deer Valley Baptist Church who deemed it " desirable that a Literary Institution should be established in Central Pennsylvania, embracing a High School for male pupils, another for females, a College and also a Theological Institution.

Founded as the Junior Agricultural School of Central Arkansas in 1927, Arkansas State University Beebe's campus has evolved and grown to become a center for long-distance learning and technical trade programs in central Arkansas.

Founded in 1924, Harding University, a private, higher-academic, Christian university affiliated with the Churches of Christ, has its main campus in Searcy.

Founded in 1789, Georgetown University features a mix of Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture.

Founded in May 1996, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of three medical schools in the state of Kentucky.