* 1917 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

* 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop ( b. 1917 )

* 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.

** Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic Archbishop ( d. 1980 )

During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads achieved notoriety when a sniper assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero during Mass in March 1980.

During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads ( known in Spanish by the name of Escuadrón de la Muerte, " Squadron of Death ") achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero for his social activism in March 1980.

The film Knightriders ( 1981 ) by George A. Romero starring Ed Harris used scenes shot in Fawn Township ( 1980 ) for the movie.

In the November 1980 general elections, Governor Romero Barceló was re-elected by a margin of 3, 503 votes ( one of the closest in Puerto Rico history ), though his party lost control of the state legislature to the main opposing party, the PPD.

In 1978 as member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, he campaigned to help delay the anticipated assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and represented the British Council of Churches at the funeral in El Salvador in 1980 when 14 people died around him.

Carlos Romero Barceló 1976 – won ; 1980 – won ; 1984 – loss

" In 1986, a second award was established to honor and emulate the spirit of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, who was murdered on March 24, 1980.

Reelected as mayor in 1980, Padilla became increasingly dissatisfied with Romero and the incumbent governor's capacity to lead the party to another victory in 1984 after barely winning reelection by a less than one-half of one percent margin in 1980.

ARENA was founded shortly following the assassination of Óscar Romero in 1980 ; its founder is generally considered responsible for Romero's killing, but died before he could be charged.

The last big demonstration of the CRM occurred on March 24, 1980, during the funeral of Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated the week before.

In 1980, he traveled to El Salvador to attend the funeral of the slain Archbishop Oscar Romero.

On October 31, 1980, five days before the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan appeared at Maine West with actors Cesar Romero and Robert Conrad, giving a 30 minute address to the students and other invited guests.

Others also suffered martyrdom because they empowered the poor and dispossessed to move for change: the chief bishop in El Salvador Archbishop Óscar Romero ( though conservative in respect to religion ) was gunned down whilst celebrating the Eucharist on 24 March 1980.

While in college, McClintock, along with Puerto Rico's current governor Luis Fortuño, founded the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association, a student organization that contributed to the electoral victory of Carlos Romero Barceló in 1980.

More political instability and the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 sparked the beginning of the Civil War ( Lonely Planet ).

In this instance, there was a dosage of 562 during the first two hours and a total dosage of 1980 for the four-hour period, a four-fold increase.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

* 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.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

In the fall of 1980, she transferred to Vanderbilt University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Between 1980 to 1986, Sakharov was kept under tight Soviet police surveillance.

Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for " anti-Soviet activities ".

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

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.

They later married on October 11, 1975, and their only child, Chelsea, was born on February 27, 1980.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.