During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

In 2000, the same policy was applied to people who have resided in France, for at least three months from January 1980 to December 1996.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

In Poland, anyone who cumulatively spent six months or longer between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996 in the UK, Ireland or France is permanently barred from donating.

From December 3, 1978, to September 20, 1980, Encyclopedia Brown was a daily and Sunday comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

She died on 11 December 1980, aged 62.

In the December 23, 1980 strip, Jon states that he is 30 years old ( meaning he is 61 years old as of January 2012, although he has not aged physically ).

John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 ) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member

* Johnny Bench: Number 1 Home Run Hitter of All Catchers, Baseball Digest, December 1980

Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980 ) was a German naval commander during World War II.

A 4 December 1980 press statement stated that, " We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were ", and was simply signed " Led Zeppelin ".

Minor Threat's first performance was in December 1980, opening on a bill with Bad Brains, Phfat Raskals, and S. O. A.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC ( July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980 ) was a Canadian philosopher of communication theory.

" Seven out of the total fifteen issues of this gazette appear during student strikes organized in November and December 1980 as part of the Solidarity upheaval.

The first public pre-paid remote memory phonecard was issued in the United States in December 1980 by Phone Line.

# Held the office of secretary or assistant or deputy secretary on 22 December 1980, or

On December 8, 1980, one month after the election of Ronald Reagan brought Republicans back to power in Washington, he switched his party affiliation from Independent to Republican.

Therefore, when Zimbabwe Rhodesia returned to colonial status from December 1979 to April 1980, it was named " Southern Rhodesia " ( which had always been the official British government name for Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia ).

* Desi Bouterse ( July 1980 – 3 December 1992 )

Susanna Hoffs joined sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson to form a band in Los Angeles in December, 1980.

The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

The group also called attention to the December 4 edition of Fox and Friends, accusing the program of misleading its viewers with a " questionable graphic " showing the result of a Rasmussen Reports climate-change poll totaling 120 percent.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

In December 1943, a third resistance organization, an anticommunist, anti-German royalist group known as Legaliteti, took shape in Albania's northern mountains.

In December 2004, during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ) | War in Afghanistan, a group of U. S. Army soldiers tries to free a HMMWV, which is stuck in the sands of southern Afghanistan.

As of December 2011, the IEEE 802. 15. 6 task group has approved a draft of a standard for Body Area Network ( BAN ) technologies.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

When Congress reconvened on December 5, 1853, this group, termed the “ F Street Mess ”, along with Virginian William O. Goode, formed the nucleus that would insist on slaveholder equality in Nebraska.

In December 1934, a small group of nationalists — members of the newly formed Moroccan Action Committee ( Comité d ' Action Marocaine — CAM )— proposed a Plan of Reforms that called for a return to indirect rule as envisaged by the Treaty of Fès, admission of Moroccans to government positions, and establishment of representative councils.

The group finally declared its full autonomy and incorporated legally with Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and was approved on December 7, 2011 with papers held for by present procurators.

In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye.

On 27 December 1974, a group of FSLN guerrillas invaded a party at the home of the Minister of Agriculture, killing him in the process of taking several leading government officials hostage.

The last group of Japanese soldiers surrendered on Saipan on December 1, 1945.

In December 1975, the group won the RAM ( Rock Australia Magazine )/ Levi's Punk Band Thriller competition.

The group of them then travelled to Akka and Haifa in Palestine ( modern day Israel ) on pilgrimage, arriving on December 14, 1889.

In a poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid following the first prorogation of the 40th parliament on December 4, 2008, it was found that 51 % of the sample group thought the prime minister was directly elected by Canadians.