Editing 1980 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1980}}
* [[January 4]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] proclaims a [[United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union|grain embargo]] against the [[USSR]] with the support of the [[European Commission]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Suspension of United States Exports of High Technology and Grain to the Soviet Union: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, to Assess the Effectiveness of Trade Measures ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJKvcktAQHwC&pg=PA30|year=1980|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=30–}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Global Positioning System]] time [[Epoch (computing)|epoch]] begins at 00:00 UTC.
* [[January 9]] – In [[Saudi Arabia]], 63 [[Islamist]] insurgents are beheaded for their part in the [[Grand Mosque seizure|siege of the Great Mosque]] in [[Mecca]] in November [[1979]].<ref>{{cite book|author=[Anonymous AC00557303]|title=1980: 4; 1980 : An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HDc_x0hOEAC|year=1980|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-0211-9|page=343}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I) party]] leader, [[Indira Gandhi]] returns to power as the [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] of [[India]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html|title=Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India|last=Charlton|first=Linda|date=November 1, 1984|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 17, 2017}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] – At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at [[Sincelejo]], Colombia.<ref name=HIS>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bullfight-spectators-die-when-bleachers-collapse |title=Bullfight spectators die when bleachers collapse |website=history.com |date=November 13, 2009 |publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC. |access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] – The [[London Gold Fixing]] hits its highest price ever of $843 per [[troy ounce]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart|title=Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart|website=www.macrotrends.net}}</ref> ($2,249.50 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation).
* [[January 22]] – [[Andrei Sakharov]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs|title=Human Rights in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: Hearing and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Its Subcommittee on International Organizations...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xb3VAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA84|year=1981|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=84–}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Israel]] and [[Egypt]] establish diplomatic relations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onthisday.com/countries/egypt?p=3|title=Egyptian History (Part 3)|website=OnThisDay.com|access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Canadian Caper]]: Six United States [[Diplomacy|diplomats]], posing as Canadians, manage to escape from [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], as they board a flight to [[Zürich]], Switzerland, on [[Swissair]].
* [[January 31]] – [[Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala]]: The Spanish Embassy in [[Guatemala]] is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people. In the United States, it is dubbed "Spain's own Tehran".<ref name="arias 161">{{cite book|last=Arias|first=Arturo|title=Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|date=2007|pages=161|isbn=978-0-8166-4849-8}}</ref>