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Clockwise from top-left: people welcoming six freed hostages back to the United States, as a result of the "Canadian Caper"; the 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union in what is now Russia; Pac-Man is released in the arcades becoming the highest-earning arcade game of all time; Iraq invades Iran initiating the Iran-Iraq War; students of Gwangju, South Korea uprise in response to the coup d'état of May Seventeenth; John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman outside his New York City apartment; Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy explodes killing 85 and injuring 200; Mount St. Helens erupts killing approximately 57 people.
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1980 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1980 MCMLXXX
Ab urbe condita
2733
Armenian calendar
1429 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԹ
Assyrian calendar
6730
Baháʼí calendar
136–137
Balinese saka calendar
1901–1902
Bengali calendar
1387
Berber calendar
2930
British Regnal year
28 Eliz. 2 – 29 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2524
Burmese calendar
1342
Byzantine calendar
7488–7489
Chinese calendar
己未年 (Earth Goat) 4677 or 4470 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4678 or 4471
Coptic calendar
1696–1697
Discordian calendar
3146
Ethiopian calendar
1972–1973
Hebrew calendar
5740–5741
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2036–2037
- Shaka Samvat
1901–1902
- Kali Yuga
5080–5081
Holocene calendar
11980
Igbo calendar
980–981
Iranian calendar
1358–1359
Islamic calendar
1400–1401
Japanese calendar
Shōwa 55 (昭和５５年)
Javanese calendar
1912–1913
Juche calendar
69
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4313
Minguo calendar
ROC 69 民國69年
Nanakshahi calendar
512
Thai solar calendar
2523
Tibetan calendar
阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 2106 or 1725 or 953 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 2107 or 1726 or 954
Unix time
315532800 – 347155199
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