Editing 1980 (section)

===March===
{{Main|March 1980}}
* [[March 1]]
** [[Steven Stayner]] returned home after being kidnapped for seven years, and brought a 5 year old, [[Timothy White (abduction victim)]], who had been kidnapped after Steven, to a police station to save him.
** The [[Commonwealth Trade Union Council]] is established.
** The ''[[Voyager 1]]'' probe confirms the existence of [[Janus (moon)|Janus]], a moon of [[Saturn]].
* [[March 3]] – [[Pierre Trudeau]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[March 4]] – [[Robert Mugabe]] is elected Prime Minister of [[Zimbabwe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1980: Mugabe to lead independent Zimbabwe |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/4/newsid_2515000/2515145.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=20 May 2021 |date=1980-03-04}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] – The [[Soviet Union]]'s first [[Tbilisi Rock Festival (1980)|rock music festival]] starts.
* [[March 14]] – [[LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007]] crashes during an emergency landing near [[Warsaw]], Poland, killing a 14-man American [[boxing]] team and 73 others.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|date=|title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-62 SP-LAA Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19800314-1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051112075535/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19800314-1 |archive-date=November 12, 2005 |access-date=2020-07-12|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] – Fifty people are killed at the [[Plesetsk Cosmodrome]] in Russia, when a [[Vostok-2M]] rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
* [[March 19]]–[[March 20|20]] – The {{MV|Mi Amigo}}, the ship housing [[pirate radio]] station [[Radio Caroline]], sinks off the English coast (the station returns aboard a new ship in [[1983]]).
* [[March 21]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] announces that the United States will boycott the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in Moscow because of the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Tom Caraccioli|author2=Jerry Caraccioli|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGoNAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=New Chapter Press|isbn=978-0-942257-40-3|page=82}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – A mine lift cage at the [[Vaal Reefs]] gold mine in South Africa falls {{convert|1.9|km|mi}}, killing 23 workers.<ref name="Association1981">{{cite book|author=Reader's Digest Association|title=Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook, 1981|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yyAwAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Reader's Digest Association|isbn=978-0-89577-089-9|page=12}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – The Norwegian oil platform ''[[Alexander L. Kielland (platform)|Alexander L. Kielland]]'' collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.<ref>{{cite book | last = Bignell | first = Victor | title = Understanding systems failures | publisher = Manchester University Press in association with Open University | location = Manchester Dover, N.H | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780719009730 | page=79}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – The [[Talpiot Tomb]] is discovered by construction workers in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Simcha Jacobovici|author2=Charles R. Pellegrino|title=The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery That Changes History Forever|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkOwM7S4dEcC&pg=PA4|year=2008|publisher=HarperElement|isbn=978-0-00-724569-7|pages=4}}</ref>