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Zimbabwe won the first gold medal in women's hockey at the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. Czechoslovakia won silver and USSR won bronze.
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There were 2 revolts that led to military intervention by other pact countries, Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Additionally there was Poland in the 1980's, where the Polish army took over.
In a sense, Poland left the Eastern Bloc in 1980 after the Worker's Revolution. They still remained a communist state, but with some elements of democracy.
In the modern Olympics world, two separate political problems resulted in major nation boycotts. For the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, US President Jimmy Carter ordered a US boycott because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The next Summer Olympics were in Los Angeles and The Soviet Union led a group of their followers in a boycott in 1984. This was their response to the US 1980 boycott.
Velvet Monkeys was created in 1980.
TJ Sparta ČKD Praha were the winner of the Czechoslovakia cup in 1980.
Velvet Rose was born on June 13, 1980, in McKinney, Texas, USA.
The cast of Lost to the Revolution - 1980 includes: Yul Brynner as Narrator
The USSR invaded Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Afghanistan in 1980.
Jan Pivec died on May 10, 1980, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Daniel Michaelli died on November 7, 1980, in Martin, Czechoslovakia.
Jan Tausinger died on July 29, 1980, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
The American Revolution was in 1776. If you were born in 1980, you would not have lived during the revolution.
Marmalade Revolution was created on 1980-02-11.
Ivo Bystrican was born in 1980, in Frdek-Mstek, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
Peter Cmorik was born on March 22, 1980, in Roznava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].