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| 1979 |
| | | Britain agrees to fund the purchase of land of British farmers in Southern Rhodesia willing to sell, for a much-needed land distribution programme | |
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| 1979 |
| | | The Global Commission for the Eradication of Smallpox announces that the world is free of the disease | |
|  | White doctor vaccinating 800 Zulus
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| 1980 |
| | | The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer | |
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| 1980 |
| | | The USA ends all aid to Nicaragua and provides funds to train and equip the Contras in neighbouring Honduras | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Archbishop Oscar Romero, an exponent of liberation theology, is killed as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Italian academic Umberto Eco publishes The Name of the Rose, a medieval murder mystery | |
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| 1980 |
| | | The threat of a hunger strike persuades the British government to authorize S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), a television channel broadcasting in Welsh | |
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| 1980 |
| | | A US helicopter mission fails disastrously in its attempt to rescue the embassy hostages in Tehran | |
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| 1980 |
| | | US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister | |
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