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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
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
The threat of a hunger strike persuades the British government to authorize S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), a television channel broadcasting in Welsh
1980
Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister
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