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

Why didn't the Soviet Union collapse in 1980 then?

During the late 1970s he acquired a large public audience as a critic of the then Labour government's disregard of civil liberties ; his writings from this time are collected in Writing By Candlelight ( 1980 ).

Entering the Olympics in 1928, India won all five games without conceding a goal and won from 1932 until 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980.

* 1980 – Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Asset manager Jeremy Grantham wrote that if the Simon-Ehrlich wager had been for a longer period ( from 1980 to 2011 ), then Ehrlich would have won on four of the five metals.

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

By 1980 due to poor ratings and then infrequent television coverage the golden-age of kickboxing in Japan was suddenly finished.

On May 3, 1980, he married psychotherapist Carla Green, who then also began serving as his manager ; she later became a personal trainer.

Friedman served as an unofficial adviser to Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign, and then served on the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board for the rest of the Reagan Administration.

There have also been minor changes to the uniform design throughout the years, such as changing the color of the facemask from gray to white ( 1980 ), and then to purple ( 1985 ); and adding the Norseman logo to the sleeves ( 1996 ).

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

Because of its location, it became the site of military facilities used first by the British and then by the United States, following an access agreement signed in 1980 by the United States and Oman.

Simmons and McDaniels started hanging around Two-Fifths Park in Hollis in late 1980, hoping to rap for the local DJs that performed and competed there, and the most popular one known to frequent the park was Mizell, then known as " Jazzy Jase ".

An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled " Presence of the Past ".

The unemployment rate rose from 7 % in 1980 to 10. 8 % in 1982, then declined to 5. 4 % in 1988.

This led to the production of shows including Logan's Run then there was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 – 1980 ).

Jon Postel then proposed a Mail Transfer Protocol in 1980 that began to remove the mail's reliance on FTP.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

They then changed to white shoes in 1980.

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.

During the 1980 Summer Olympics, the sailing ( then known as yachting ) events were held at Pirita, north-east of central Tallinn.

Subsequent events led to the cross-shareholding structure between Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong Land which was first instigated in 1980 by then taipan David Newbigging.

Along with his father, Jim Shea Sr., he passed the Olympic Torch to the 1980 U. S. Men's Hockey Team, who then ignited the Olympic Cauldron.

He worked on a kibbutz – an Israeli collective community – in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran in 1980.

Their subsequent first album, an independent release on their own label, Day Glo Records, garnered them enough airplay on the then fledgling L. A. alternative radio station KROQ-FM to lead to a re-release of the album on Epic Records in 1980, and the release of two further albums, Locals Only and Oh No, Not Them Again on Enigma, with Mark Miller, keyboard player Jerry Weber and lifeguard / guitarist Andy Jackson.

* 1980 – Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.

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.

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

In 1980, a German car maker, Audi, at that time not noted for their interest in rallying, introduced a rather large and heavy coupé version of their family saloon, installed a turbocharged 2. 1 litre five-cylinder engine, and fitted it with four-wheel drive.

In 1980 Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC / DC, after a night's heavy drinking, was found lifeless in a car outside 67 Overhill Road, East Dulwich.

Although Deutsch died in 1980, SERA-CD continues research and development to this day, from light to heavy vehicles using conventional and hybrid propulsion technology.

David Nizam " Brownsound " Baksh ( born 26 July 1980 ) is a Canadian guitarist, singer and producer of Indo-Guyanese descent, best known as the ex-lead guitarist of punk band Sum 41, but has since become a singer / guitarist in his own heavy metal / reggae project Brown Brigade.

The Leyland Roadtrain was a range of heavy goods vehicle tractor units manufactured by Leyland Trucks between 1980 and 1990.

Veeck had been a heavy smoker and drinker until 1980.

is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1980 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi.

In a January 1980 announcement, Hubbard told his followers that a nuclear war was imminent and that the Rundown would enable them to deal with heavy fallout.

* Gus G or Gus Gus, stage name of Greek heavy metal guitarist Kostas Karamitroudis ( born 1980 )

His work and that of his fellow USGS scientists convinced the authorities to close Mount St. Helens to the general public before the 1980 eruption, and to maintain the closure in spite of heavy pressure to re-open the area ; their work saved thousands of lives.

In December 1979 Siffre released ' One World Song ' a duet with Jackie which received heavy rotation on Radio Luxembourg in the final week of that year into 1980.

Since 1980, Hunting Island has suffered major beach erosion as a result of heavy tides from the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and Saint Helena Sound, and is expected to shrink in size by ten per cent over the next forty years.

In 1980, promoter Paul Loasby, along with Maurice Jones, planned a one day festival dedicated specifically for bands within the hard rock and heavy metal genre.

He formed the band 「 i · suman · gwa · 365Il 」( Lee Soo Man and 365 days ) in 1980, which became the first heavy metal band formed in the Korean music industry.

Gollin has worked on particle physics experiments studying muon scattering ( 1975 – 1981, intended to test the ideas of " Quantum Chromodynamics "), neutral K meson decay parameters ( 1980 – 1993, measuring things relating to " CP violation "), and electron-positron annihilation ( 1993 – 2005, measuring production and decay properties of heavy quarks ).

What was remarkable is that they proved to have a singer-songwriter of genuine talent in Cathy Lesurf, and after she had left for the Albion Band in 1980 they became The Oyster Band ( sometimes the Oysterband ), an increasingly heavy and politically aware electric folk unit who produced some of the best work in the genre in the 1980s and 1990s, merging into the developing folk punk and independent scenes.

By 1980, the relatively heavy THM400 was being phased out of usage in passenger cars in response to demand for improved fuel economy.

Doxford Engines Ltd. ( opposed-piston heavy marine engines ) used a common rail system ( from 1921 to 1980 ) whereby a multi-cylinder reciprocating fuel pump generated a pressure of approximately 600 bar, with the fuel being stored in accumulator bottles.

It was however still reeling from a venture into the Northern Territory in 1980, which incurred heavy losses.

In 1962 the airline had started operations of heavy freigters, and by the 1980 had a fleet of 29 covering the entire Soviet Union and changing its name to Transport Aviation.

Kostas Karamitroudis () also known as Gus G, born September 12, 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is a heavy metal guitarist.