19 July 1980Moscow Olympics OpeningLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Formally opens the Moscow Summer Olympic Games amid a major Western boycott.
Historical records for Russia in 1980, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Formally opens the Moscow Summer Olympic Games amid a major Western boycott.
Discusses Middle Eastern security and Soviet-Syrian cooperation with Hafez al-Assad.
Signs a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Discusses Afghanistan, regional security and Soviet-Indian relations with Indira Gandhi.
Visits India and is received by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
Coordinates Soviet-bloc pressure on Poland as the Solidarity movement challenges Communist Party authority.
Sakharov is arrested
Develops an inflationary cosmological model based on quantum corrections to gravity.
Soviet forces conduct operations against Mujahidin positions in the Panjshir Valley.
Appointed Member of Politburo
The United Nations General Assembly condemns the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and calls for withdrawal.
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