page_title: September 1980
hierarchical_section_title: September 1980
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte Frontverläufe im ersten Golfkrieg English: Map of the frontlines in the Iran-Iraq War
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.
caption: September 22, 1980: Iraq begins eight-year long war with Iran
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