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  • Gumi, South Korea
    Jan, 1980
    Samsung

    Entering The Telecommunications Hardware Industry

    Gumi, South Korea
    Jan, 1980

    In 1980, Samsung acquired the Gumi-based Hanguk Jeonja Tongsin and entered telecommunications hardware. Its early products were switchboards. The facility was developed into the telephone and fax manufacturing systems and became the center of Samsung's mobile phone manufacturing. They have produced over 800 million mobile phones to date. The company grouped them together under Samsung Electronics in the 1980s.




  • Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1980
    Juneteenth

    Officially made a state holiday

    Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1980

    The bill passed through the Texas Legislature in 1979 and was officially made a state holiday on January 1, 1980.




  • India
    Wednesday Jan 2, 1980
    Indira Gandhi

    The 1980 Elections

    India
    Wednesday Jan 2, 1980

    Before the 1980 elections Gandhi approached the then Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Abdullah Bukhari and entered into an agreement with him on the basis of 10-point programme to secure the support of the Muslim votes. In the elections held in January, Congress returned to power with a landslide majority.




  • Orlando, Florida, U.S.
    Jan, 1980
    Ted Bundy

    Bundy was found guilty once again and Marriage

    Orlando, Florida, U.S.
    Jan, 1980

    Six months later, a second trial took place in Orlando, for the abduction and murder of Kimberly Leach. Bundy was found guilty once again, after less than eight hours' deliberation, due principally to the testimony of an eyewitness who saw him leading Leach from the schoolyard to his stolen van. Important material evidence included clothing fibers with an unusual manufacturing error, found in the van and on Leach's body, which matched fibers from the jacket Bundy was wearing when he was arrested. During the penalty phase of the trial, Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law providing that a marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constituted a legal marriage. As he was questioning former Washington State DES coworker Carole Ann Boone—who had moved to Florida to be near Bundy, had testified on his behalf during both trials, and was again testifying on his behalf as a character witness—he asked her to marry him. She accepted, and Bundy declared to the court that they were legally married.




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