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| 1980 |
| | | Saddam Hussein invades Iran, beginning an 8-year war that will bring massive human cost | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Republican Ronald Reagan wins the US presidential election against the incumbent Jimmy Carter | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Beatle John Lennon is murdered by a psychopath on the steps of his and Yoko Ono's apartment block in New York | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Iran releases the US embassy hostages immediately after the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The SDP hives off from Britain's Labour party – and seven years later merges with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Rebels storm the Spanish parliament in Madrid and briefly hold the members hostage, in a military coup that fails | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The Kremlin appoints a general, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as prime minister of Poland | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Henry and Jane Fonda, father and daughter, star with Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism | |
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