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  1980s timeline
     
1980
 
    
The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer       
1980
 
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The USA ends all aid to Nicaragua and provides funds to train and equip the Contras in neighbouring Honduras      
1980
 
    
Archbishop Oscar Romero, an exponent of liberation theology, is killed as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador       
1980
 
    
Italian academic Umberto Eco publishes The Name of the Rose, a medieval murder mystery       
1980
 
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The threat of a hunger strike persuades the British government to authorize S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), a television channel broadcasting in Welsh      
1980
 
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Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister