In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

Fraying amongst the members of the Warsaw Pact nations and instability of its western allies, first indicated by Lech Wałęsa's 1980 rise to leadership of the trade union Solidarity, accelerated, leaving the Soviet Union unable to depend upon its Eastern European satellite states for protection as a buffer zone.

In 1980, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich expanded upon the political meaning of lesbian by proposing a continuum of lesbian existence based on " woman-identified experience ".

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

In 1980 the American College of Rheumatology agreed upon diagnostic criteria for scleroderma.

In 1980 Stanley L. Weinberg, a veteran high-school teacher in Iowa, began to organize statewide Committees of Correspondence " committed to the defense of education in evolutionary theory ," modelled upon the committees of correspondence in pre-Revolutionary America.

The syndicated show abolished the Secret Square upon expansion to 5 days a week in 1980.

After his morning show on NBC got cancelled in October 1980 after only 18 weeks on the air, David Letterman was still held in sufficient regard by the network brass ( especially NBC president Fred Silverman ) that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian is being courted by a syndication company, NBC gave him a $ 20, 000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

The IUCN's World Conservation Strategy ( 1980 ) was founded upon this kind of principle, and clearly announced the IUCN's ambitions to more effectively enter into dialogue with the promoters of human development.

This " marriage " was unsuccessful and a " divorce " was soon agreed upon and in 1980 the present municipality was created.

In 1980, he resigned as ISE director, and upon his retirement from Ramapo in early 1983, he moved to Burlington, Vermont.

W. A. Speck wrote in 1980 that a reason Macaulay's History of England " still commands respect is that it was based upon a prodigious amount of research ".

Demand for the real 808 sound is so great that street prices for a used machine have remained close to what the cost of a new TR-808 was upon its initial release in 1980 when adjusted for inflation.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Bell was elected to the City Council of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.

* Leica R3 – the first electronic Leitz SLR – 1976 to 1980, based upon the Minolta XE1 / 7.

* R4MOT / R4 / R4S / R4S Mod2 – 1980 – 87 a new compact model based upon the Minolta XD11.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

In January 1980, McCartney was arrested for possession of 7. 7 ounces of marijuana upon arriving at Tokyo airport for Wings ' concert tour of Japan.

The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet and has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 ( Norwegian ) and 1955 ( Danish ), although Danish did not officially recognize the W as a separate letter until 1980.

Orion got a shot in the arm at the end of 1980, when Woody Allen announced upon the expiration of his contract that he would be leaving UA ; he planned to make three movies with his longtime collaborators at Orion.

) As an effort to promote Jewish law, the Mishpat Ivri movement has had relatively few gains, which include: ( 1 ) the Foundations of Law Act of 1980, allowing judicial reasoning to draw upon Halakha, ( 2 ) the limited accretion of case law that refers to Halakha, ( 3 ) occasional references to Halakha in legislative deliberations, and ( 4 ) the placement of a single Mishpat Ivri expert ( Nahum Rakover ) in the Attorney General's office.

Eager to pay off a huge tax bill upon his return the UK in the late-1970s ( Purple's excesses included their own tour jet and a home Lord rented in Hollywood from actress Ann-Margret ), Lord joined former Deep Purple band member David Coverdale's new band, Whitesnake in August 1978 ( Paice joined them in 1980 and stayed till 1982 ).

** The Prisoner ( video game ), a 1980 computer game based upon the series

The Ninth Configuration was not a commercial success upon its cinematic release in 1980 ; however, it received generally strong notices and a Best Picture nomination at the 1981 Golden Globe Awards.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

The red flag introduced under Taraki was replaced in 1980, shortly after the Soviet intervention, to the more traditional colours black, red and green.

His intervention in Sweden's 1980 referendum on the future of nuclear power is often pinpointed by opponents of nuclear power as saving it.

The concerns of Stonehill, Taylor and Howard and other Solid Rock musicians led to an intervention on June 17, 1980 with Norman organized by Philip F. Mangano, the Solid Rock business manager.

In early 1980 the play was roundly criticized by Secretary General Hu Yaobang-the first public intervention in the arts since the Cultural Revolution.

The death of Joan Antoni Pàmias in 1980 revealed the need for the intervention of the official bodies if the institution was to remain a leading opera house.

Carter responded to the Soviet intervention by withdrawing the SALT II treaty from the Senate, imposing embargoes on grain and technology shipments to the USSR, and demanding a significant increase in military spending, and further announced that the United States would boycott the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.

This sudden crackdown on Solidarity was reportedly out of fear of Soviet intervention ( see Soviet reaction to the Polish crisis of 1980 – 1981 ).

Détente ended after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, which led to America's boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

The military overthrew their governments on several occasions: In 1960, the Adnan Menderes government was deposed and Menderes himself was executed ; on March 26, 1971, the government of party veteran Suleyman Demirel was threatened with military intervention and forced to resign ; and on September 12, 1980 the military carried out a full-scale coup, suppressing all political parties, including Demirel's AP.

In early 1980 the play was roundly criticized by Secretary General Hu Yaobang-the first public intervention in the arts since the Cultural Revolution.

The province's geographical location bordering Iraq and its oil resources also make it a politically sensitive region, particularly given its history of foreign intervention, notably the Iraqi invasion of 1980.

The journal Parti Bayrağı ( Flag of the Party ) was another legally published monthly that appeared between 1978 and the military intervention in 1980.

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U. S. economy rebound.

* 1980 – Eight U. S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

In 1980, the U. S. Congress passed an Acid Deposition Act.

Cambridge U. Press, 1980.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

The first U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti arrived in October 1980.

* 1980 – Four U. S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.

* 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U. S. Congress.

After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U. S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981.

In 1980 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and was on a U. S. postage stamp in 1983.

Another point which has distanced these strips was the U. S ./ Canada-centric humor, with a few jokes being totally untranslatable to some languages, however by 1980, the strip became the universal family fare product that it's known for.

* Upton, Anthony E. The Finnish Revolution, 1917-1918 ( U. of Minnesota Press, 1980 )

* 1980 – Through cooperation between the U. S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper.

* 1980 election for U. S. Senate

* J. Joseph Smith ( 1904 – 1980 ), U. S. Representative from Connecticut

In 1980, the U. S. had boycotted the Summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

During their 133 years in power ( 1847 – 1980 ), the Americo-Liberian ruling class had a complicated relationship with the U. S.

Between 1946 and 1960 Liberia received from some $ 500 million in unrestricted foreign investment, mainly from the U. S. From 1962 to 1980, the U. S. donated $ 280 million in aid to Liberia.

Between 1945 and 1980, the posture of Western European states towards Liberia was largely that of the U. S .. Americo-Liberian rulers received hundreds of millions of dollars in unrestricted foreign investment, mainly from the U. S., but also from Western Europe.

From 1962 until 1980, the U. S. donated $ 280 million in aid to Liberia, in exchange for which Liberia offered its land free of rent for U. S. government facilities.

Memoirs of War, 1914-1915 Cornell U. Press, 1980.