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March 21, 1980
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by
mauler
Mon Jul 26 2021 at 22:42:04
On
March 21
,
1980
...
U.S. president
Jimmy Carter
announces that the United States will boycott the
1980 Summer Olympic Games
scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer, in protest of the Soviet Union's refusal to remove its troops from
Afghanistan
.
The crime boss of the South Philadelphia mafia,
Angelo Bruno
, is shot in the back of the head with a shotgun and killed by an unknown assailant while sitting in his car in front of his home. The killing sets off a brutal
mob war
that would claim 28 lives between 1980 and 1985. It is believed that Bruno's own
consigliere
,
Antonio Caponigro
, was behind the hit, as Bruno had just resumed speaking to federal investigators the day before. Caponigro's own dead body will be found in the trunk of a car in New York just a few weeks later.
The iconic season finale of the third season of the popular TV show
Dallas
is broadcast for the first time. In this famous cliffhanger episode entitled "A House Divided," main character
J.R. Ewing
is mysteriously shot, leading to the catchphrase "
Who Shot J.R.?
" as America spends all spring and summer pondering who the mysterious shooter might be.
Howard Witkin, a glass company executive, is shot to death at his
Santa Clara
townhouse in a murder-for-hire scheme. His ex-wife Judith Barnett's second husband Robert Singer is convicted of first degree murder for hiring hit men to do the job, apparently so that he could get his hands on Witkin's money when it was inherited by Judith and Howard's children. However in a twist, ten years later it is discovered that Judith herself actually masterminded the hit, with Singer covering for her, and she is convicted of first degree murder in 1994.
Walenty Badylak
, a Polish baker and veteran of Poland's wartime Underground Home Army, sets himself ablaze in
Krakow
's Main Square and dies from self-immolation in protest against the Polish communist regime's refusal to acknowledge the
Katyn Massacre
.
Cartoonist
Nicole Hollander
's long-running daily newspaper comic strip
Sylvia
is published for the first time. The strip will run all the way until 2012.
The legendary boxing rivalry between American
Bobby Chacon
and Mexican
Rafael Limón
continues with
Chacon-Limón III
, held at the Forum in Los Angeles. Chacon prevails in a closely fought, 10-round split decision.
English
post-punk
band
The Pop Group
releases its genre-defining (and -defying) second studio album
For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
Brazilian soccer legend
Ronaldinho
is born in
Porto Alegre
,
Brazil
.
March 22, 1980
The Pop Group
Ronaldinho
consigliere
Xaviera Hollander
Sylvia
Katyn Forest Massacre
1980
post-punk
Kraków
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