Editing 1980 (section)

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1980}}
[[File:Moscow Olympic Games, 1980 (22).jpg|thumb|200px|Moscow Olympic Games on August 2, 1980]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]] becomes the 4th [[President of Iceland]], the world's first democratically directly elected female president.<ref>{{cite book|title=The World Factbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY7Ig1HyPi4C&pg=RA1-PA219|year=1996|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|pages=219}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] – [[Strage di Bologna]]: A terrorist bombing at the [[Bologna Centrale railway station]] in Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.<ref>{{cite book|title=Modern Italy: The difficult democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBAMAQAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Electa|page=92| isbn=9788843509157 }}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow officially [[1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony|ends]].
* [[August 4]] – [[Hurricane Allen]] (category 5) pounds [[Haiti]], where it kills more than 200 people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael R. Hall|title=Historical Dictionary of Haiti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RbzX4PjxtgC&pg=PA135|year=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7810-5|pages=135}}</ref>
* [[August 7]]–[[August 31|31]] – [[Lech Wałęsa]] leads the first of many strikes at the [[Gdańsk Shipyard]] in the [[Polish People's Republic]].
* [[August 17]] – In Australia, baby [[Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|Azaria Chamberlain disappears]] from a campsite at Ayers Rock ([[Uluru]]), reportedly taken by a [[dingo]].
* [[August 19]] – In one of aviation's worst disasters, 301 people are killed when [[Saudia Flight 163]] catches fire in [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]].
* [[August 31]] – Victory of the strike in [[Gdańsk Shipyard]], Poland. The [[Gdańsk Agreement]] is signed, opening a way to start the first free (i.e. not state-controlled) trade union in the [[communist bloc]], "[[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]]" (''Solidarność'').