Gauntlett bought a 12. 5 % stake in Aston Martin for £ 500, 000 via Pace Petroleum in 1980, with Tim Hearley of CH Industrials taking a similar share.

Edlin was created by Tim Paterson in two weeks in 1980, and was expected to have a six-month shelf life.

It would be readapted in 1980 and again in Tim Burton's 1999 Sleepy Hollow.

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents.

* 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer

* 1980 – Tim Maurer, American singer ( Suburban Legends )

* 1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer

* 1980 – Tim Peper, American actor

In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a Disk Operating System ( DOS ) they had not yet developed for the Intel 8088-based IBM PC, Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase a Quick and Dirty Operating System ( QDOS ) written by Tim Paterson who, at the time, was employed at Seattle Computer Products.

Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1980.

** Tim Hardin, American musician ( d. 1980 )

The play premiered on Broadway in 1980 with Ian McKellen as Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart, and Jane Seymour as Constanze.

* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, and Humphrey Lyttelton ( Robson Books, London, 1980 )

* Tim Verkooijen ( b. 1980 ), D-Bag

* Tim Burgess ( b. 6 October 1961, Macclesfield ) – percussionist, drummer ; not the Charlatans ' lead singer, but previously in Solid Air around 1980 with 3 school friends.

In April 1980 SCP assigned 24-year-old Tim Paterson to develop a substitute for CP / M-86.

In 1980, Tim Macmillan started producing pioneering video work in this field while studying for a BA at the ( then named ) Bath Academy of Art using 16mm film arranged in a progressing sequence of pinhole cameras.

Over the next three years his singing, playing and especially his writing skills increased exponentially, and although Tim remained the leader, Neil was playing a vital role in the band by 1980.

* The Private Eyes ( 1980 film ) a film starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway

* 1980: Evita – Book and lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

* 1980 — Works by Tim Head and Nicholas Pope.

* Tim Hardin ( 1941 – 1980 ), American folk musician and composer

The 1980 WFC, held in Baltimore, Maryland, was chaired by Chuck Miller and Tim Underwood.

Future Cardiacs percussionist Tim Quy first performed with the band ( as a stand-in bass player ) at Snoopies nightclub in Richmond at the start of 1980.

Tim Berners-Lee apparently named his precursor of the World Wide Web ENQUIRE, after this work in 1980.

The book is best remembered today, however, as the inspiration for a program called ENQUIRE written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee and which anticipated the functionality of wikis.

The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982.

Varsity: Partnered with the UCA, Varsity created the National High School Cheerleading Championship in 1980.

The Shura Council is the 264-member upper house of Parliament created in 1980.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

The beginning of the Orange Alternative are in a student movement called the Movement for New Culture created in 1980 at the University of Wrocław.

Piaget created the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until 1980.

Around 1980, the long-distance trail Grande Traversata delle Alpi ( GTA ) was created to draw more attention to the manyfold of remote, sparsely inhabited valleys.

The unqualified word Smalltalk is often used to indicate the Smalltalk-80 language, the first version to be made publicly available and created in 1980.

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.

When the original IBM-PC was created in 1980, there were three leading competing operating systems: PC-DOS, CP / M-86, and UCSD p-System, while Xenix was added in 1983-1984.

Turner created CNN in 1980.

On 30 July 1980, amidst the brief Coconut War, the Republic of Vanuatu was created.

The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander " Sandy " Trevor in Columbus, Ohio.

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

On March 26, 1980, the European Space Agency and the Centre National d ' Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) created Arianespace, the world's first commercial space transportation company.

GLS United, formed by three widely known radio moderators, was perhaps the first German hip hop group, releasing the first German-language hip hop song " Rappers Deutsch " in 1980 although they were just a novelty act created for this one song.

The United States Refugee Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96-212 ) was an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U. S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions for the effective resettlement and absorption of those refugees who are admitted.

The first dedicated online chat service was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander " Sandy " Trevor in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1980, Brzezinski planned Operation Eagle Claw, which was meant to free the hostages in Iran using the newly created Delta Force and other Special Forces units.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the Academy received complaints that the make-up work in The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) was not going to be honored.

It was first published in 1980 by Gorgonstar, a small company created by the designers.