Born in September 1980 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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September 1980 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in September 1980

• September 1, 1980: Terry Fox is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, after finding out that the cancer has spread to his lungs.
• September 2, 1980: Ford Europe launches the Escort MK3, a new front-wheel-drive hatchback.
• September 3, 1980: Zimbabwe breaks diplomatic and consular relations with South Africa, even though it maintains a commercial mission in Johannesburg.
• September 5, 1980: The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel, at 16.3 kilometres (10.1 mi), stretching from Göschenen to Airolo beneath the Gotthard Pass.
• September 12, 1980: Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence leading to the execution of many young activists.
• September 17, 1980: After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
• September 21, 1980: Bülent Ulusu, ex admiral, forms the new government of Turkey (44th government, composed mostly of technocrats).
• September 22, 1980: The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets", initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
• September 26, 1980: Oktoberfest bombing: 13 people are killed and 211 injured in a right-wing terror attack in Munich (West Germany).
• September 30, 1980: Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.