page_title: September 1980
section_title: September 18, 1980 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1980 / September 18, 1980 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Arnaldo Tamayo at an autograph session with the east-german cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn, July 2018 Deutsch: Arnaldo Tamayo 2018 bei einer Autogrammstunde zusammen mit dem DDR-Kosmonauten Sigmund Jähn in Berlin Español: Arnaldo Tamayo en el 2018 durante una firma de autógrafos junto al cosmonauta alemán oriental Sigmund Jähn en Berlín
context_page_description: Chun Doo Hwan was inaugurated as the new President of South Korea.
  Terry Fox, an amputee who had started a transcontinental run across Canada on April 12, to raise money for cancer research, was forced to end after having run 3,339 miles of the nearly 5,300 miles journey. Having started from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on the Atlantic coast with a goal of reaching the Pacific Ocean port of Victoria, British Columbia, Fox had raised $1.7 million USD before suffering shortness of breath and nausea outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he was taken to the Port Arthur General Hospital, originally for stomach flu. The next day, Fox announced that the cancer that had taken his leg had returned and had spread to his lungs.
  Francisco Villagrán Kramer resigned from his position as Vice President of Guatemala in a protest against the increased repression of human rights by President Romeo Lucas García.
context_section_description: Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez of Cuba became the first person of African descent to travel into space, as well as the first Cuban cosmonaut, as he and Yuri V. Romanenko were launched on Soyuz 38 to the Salyut 6 space station.   The flight was the seventh in the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program, which trained cosmonauts from Soviet allies.
  Died: Katherine Anne Porter, 90, American journalist and novelist whose book Ship of Fools was the best selling novel of 1962 in the U.S.
caption: Arnaldo Tamayo, pictured in 2018 [67]
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