1980 жылғы сәуір айының оқиғалары

Month of 1980

The following events happened in April 1980:

The long running American police drama Hawaii Five O came to an end after 12 seasons and 279 episodes. In the series finale, Honolulu police detective Steve McGarrett (portrayed by actor Jack Lord was finally able to capture his archenemy, Wo Fat (played by Khigh Dhiegh), who had been introduced on the first episode on September 20, 1968. What would become the band R. E. M. was created as lead vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, drummer Bill Berry and bassist Mike Mills played their first show together, for a birthday party for their friend Kathleen O'Brien at an Episcopal church in Athens, Georgia. Two weeks later, they first performed under R. E. M. name at the Coffee Club 11 11 in Athens on April 19. A then record price for a postage stamp— U. S. $850,000— was paid at an auction by an unidentified bidder for the British Guiana 1c magenta. The one cent stamp, issued by British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1856, had set the previous record of $280,000 when it was purchased in 1970 by a nine member syndicate headed by dealer Irwin Weinberg. On June 17, 2014, Weinberg's syndicate would resell the stamp for US$9,480,000. In 2020 dollars, the progression of the price paid was $1,900,000 (1970), $2,700,000 (1980) and $10,266,000 (2014).

The United States severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed additional economic sanctions, after the Ayatollah Khomeini rejected any plan to transfer the U. S. Embassy hostages from the control of students to the custody of the Iranian government. Carter ordered all of Iran's diplomats to leave the country before the end of Tuesday, sent United States marshals to close all Iranian consulates, prohibited any additional Iranian citizens from entering the U. S., and barred almost all American exports to Iran. Prior to Carter's announcement, U. S. State Department official Henry Precht, director of the department's Office of Iranian Affairs, summoned Iran's charge d'affaires, Ali Agah, to his office and presented him the expulsion orders requiring the remaining 35 diplomats to leave. Agah told reporters afterward that the staff had been "treated disrespectfully". When Agah's aide, Mohammed Lavassini, insisted that the Iranian government was providing protection to the American hostages, Precht angrily replied, "Bullshit!" The Misgav Am hostage crisis began when five members of the Arab Liberation Front seized an Israeli Jewish kibbutz in the occupied Golan Heights captured a group of children and held them hostage. The Sayeret Matkal special force team retook the kibbutz ten hours later. Died: Eloy "Buck" Canel, 74, Argentine born American sportscaster who made Spanish language radio broadcasts from 1937 to 1979.

The first United States Women's World Bodybuilding Championship was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the traditional site for the Miss America beauty pageant. Thirty competitors were hosted by the Caesars Boardwalk Regency Hotel. Rachel McLish of Harlingen, Texas, was the winner of the first contest. Died: Michael T. Gottlieb, 79, American champion contract bridge player

The resettlement of Eniwetok Atoll began as 450 former residents were returned to the chain of 40 coral islands in the Marshall Islands, a United States territory. The residents departed on two ships from Majuro, where many of them had been living for 33 years. Eniwetok's people had been removed from Eniwetok by the United States in 1947 in order for U. S. to use the atoll for its atmospheric thermonuclear bomb tests. A three year cleanup effort was conducted from 1977 to 1980 to make the atoll free of radioactivity from 43 nuclear tests, and for habitation to be constructed. At the same time, preparations were being made for other Eniwetok residents to be returned to their home after living for 33 years on the Ujelang Atoll. Soyuz 35 was launched with Soviet cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin and docked with the unoccupied Salyut 6 space station. Popov and Ryumin spent more than six months in outer space as the "resident crew" and remained at the station until October 11, while other crews arrived and departed, including Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, who arrived on Soyuz 36 on May 26 and then returned on Soyuz 35 on July 31. A four man active service unit of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade, nicknamed the "M60 unit", lured the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) into an ambush on Stewarstown Road, killing Constable Stephen Magill and wounding two others. The Madison Square Garden Sports Network, which had launched on cable on September 22, 1977, was renamed the USA Network. On the same day, Madison Square Garden named its channel on New York's Sterling cable television as "Madison Square Garden Network", later abbreviated to MSG Network. Gordie Howe scored his final National Hockey League career goal, which had opened on October 16, 1946. Howe played in the NHL in five decades (40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s), appearing in 1,767 NHL and 419 WHA games. His final goal was scored on April 9, 1980, in his penultimate game, for the Hartford Whalers in an 8 4 playoff loss to Montreal. Britain's Associated Television (ATV) network and ITV's regional channels broadcast a dramatization of the 1977 public execution of Saudi Arabian Princess Mishaal for adultery, Death of a Princess, leading to a protest by Saudi Arabia. By agreement between Britain's Foreign Office and ATV, a disclaimer was inserted at the beginning of the broadcast that said "We have been asked to point out that equality for all before the law is regarded as paramount in the Muslim world," in that the man who committed adultery with Princess Mishaal was also executed. Died: Muhammad Baqir al Sadr, 45, Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric and his sister Bint al Huda al Sadr, 42, opponents of the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were executed in Najaf for their role in leading the Shia Muslim uprising against the Ba'ath Party.

India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi narrowly missed an assassination attempt in New Delhi when a man threw a stiletto at her from only 6 feet (2 m) away. The six inch knife grazed one of her bodyguards but Gandhi was uninjured. At the 52nd Academy Awards, Kramer vs. Kramer won the Oscar for Best Picture, and its star, Dustin Hoffman won the award for Best Actor, and Sally Field was awarded Best Actress for the title role in Norma Rae. The heavy metal group Iron Maiden released its first album, the self titled album Iron Maiden, in the United Kingdom.