Editing 1980 (section)

==Events==
*February 14 - [[Kenneth Parnell]] abducts 5-year old Timothy White from his home in Ukiah, California.
*March 1 - Steven Stayner, now 14, takes Timothy White and escapes from captivity, eventually arriving at a police station in Ukiah. Police capture and arrest Kenneth Parnell the following day.
*March 22 - [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA) is founded.
*April 12 - [[William Tolbert]], President of Liberia, is deposed in a military coup lead by Master Sergeant [[Samuel Doe]], who subsequently forms a military junta known as the [[People's Redemption Council]] to govern the country.
*April 18 - [[Robert Mugabe]] is named Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
*May 17 - In Peru, [[Shining Path]] start its armed struggle in Ayacucho. Beginning of the internal conflict in Peru.
*May 18 to 27 - The [[Gwangju Uprising]] takes place in Gwangju, South Korea, in response to protests against the martial law. An estimated 2000 people are killed.
*June 23 - Italian magistrate Mario Amato is assassinated in Rome by members of [[Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari]].
*June 28 - Tadmor Prison massacre: Syrian Army soldiers under command of [[Rifaat al-Assad]] enter [[Tadmor Prison]] in Palmyra, killing close to a thousand inmates. The massacre was a response to a failed assassination attempt on President [[Hafez al-Assad]] the day before.
*July 17 - [[Luis García Meza]] seizes control of Bolivia in a violent military coup, known as the '''Cocaine coup'''.
*August 2 - The Bologna Massacre: [[Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari]] bombs a railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and injuring over 200.
*September 1 - [[Chun Doo-hwan]] is elected President of South Korea.
*September 12 - [[Kenan Evren]] takes in power in Turkey after a coup. He subsequently establishes a military dictatorship.
*September 20 - [[Saddam Hussein]] invades Iran in an attempt to annex Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan Province and the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab, beginning the Iran-Iraq War.
*September 26 - Oktoberfest bombing: German far-right terrorist [[Gundolf Köhler]] plants an explosive device at an Oktoberfest entrance which explodes instantly, killing 13 people (including himself) and injuring 213.
*October 3 - The [[1980 Paris synagogue bombing]] takes place. Four people are killed and 46 are injured. The [[Federation of National and European Action]] claims responsibility. 
*October 6 - Beginning of the Ugandan Bush War.
*October 23 - [[Siad Barre]] restores the Supreme Revolutionary Council.
*November 14 - [[Nino Vieira]] takes power in Guinea-Bissau following a bloodless military coup, and declares himself President of Guinea-Bissau.
*December 4 - Sultan Ibraimov, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kyrgyz SSR, is assassinated at his home in Cholpon-Ata on Lake Issyk-Kul under mysterious circumstances. It is believed that the [[KGB]] were behind the assassination.
*December 8 - English singer-songwriter and former member of The Beatles John Lennon is assassinated by [[Mark David Chapman]].
*December 17 - [[Milton Obote]] is restored as President of Uganda.