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1.2 March

March 1 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists
March 1 - Patti Smith marries former MC5 member Fred Sonic Smith
March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
March 4 - Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
March 10 - Jean Harris shoots doctor Herman Tarnower , the inventor of the Scarsdale diet
March 14 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others
March 18 - In Russia, a Vostok rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation killing 50
March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks
March 21 - President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
March 24 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador
March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles down - 23 dead
March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1.3 April

April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, born in Birmingham, England in 1927.
April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on Sunday, November 4, 1979
April 10 - Spain and United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969
April 18 - Zimbabwe's formal independence from United Kingdom. Robert Mugabe takes his post as a Prime Minister
April 21 - Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award
April 24- 25 - Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation
April 30 – Iranian Embassy Siege – 6 Iranian-born terrorists take over Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS attacks May 5 – one terrorist survives
April 30 - Luis Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at the age of 82.

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