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January
January 1-April 1 - A national steel strike is called in the United Kingdom.;
January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Victoria of Sweden Crown Princess over her younger brother.;
January 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.;
January 6 - The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia.;
January 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.;
January 9 - In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.;
January 11 - Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.;
January 21 - The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a troy ounce;
January 22 - Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.;
January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.;
January 27 - Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, thus ending the Canadian caper operation.;
January 31 - The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is taken down and set on fire, killing 36 people.;
February
February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel are targeting members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.;
February 2-February 3 - The infamous New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot takes place: 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.;
February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.;
February 13 - The XIII Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.;
February 15 - In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea.;
February 22 - The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.;
February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.;
February 25 - A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron. Leaders Desi Bouterse and Rou Horb replace it with a National Military Council.;
February 27 - M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.;
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