page_title: September 1980
section_title: September 7, 1980 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1980 / September 7, 1980 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Bezoek Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang, met premier Lubbers tijdens regeringsdiner 17 juni 1985
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: Hua Guofeng resigned from the position as Premier of the People's Republic of China, which he had held since 1976, in what one reporter described as "China's most orderly transfer of administrative authority in this century."    In his resignation speech, made at the meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing, Hua (who remained the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party), asked the delegates to approve Zhao Ziyang as his replacement. 
  In his speech, Chairman Hua also announced that the experimental one-child policy, used by individual cities since 1979, would be mandated nationwide "so that the rate of population growth may be brought under control as soon as possible", implementing what one reporter described as "the most ambitious population-control policy ever adopted by a major power." 
  The 32nd Primetime Emmy Awards were held in Pasadena, California, but 51 of the 52 nominated actors showed up for the U.S. television awards.  The boycott by celebrities came during the ongoing strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).   The only exception to the actors' boycott was Powers Boothe, who won the award for "Outstanding Actor in a Dramatic Special".  Booth, who received a standing ovation, said in his acceptance speech, "This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest."  
  John McEnroe, who had lost to Bjorn Borg in July in a close match at Wimbledon, defeated Borg in the finals of the U.S. Open of tennis in another close match that came down to the final set.  McEnroe had won the first two sets, 7-6 and 6-1, and Borg tied by winning the next two sets, 7-6 and 7-5.  McEnroe defended his 1979 U.S. Open championship in the final set, winning 6 games to 4. 
  Born: 
  Nikki Jamal, Azerbaijani-born English pop music singer for the duo Ell & Nikki; as Nigar Mutallibzadeh in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union.
  Gabriel Milito, Argentine soccer football defender; in Bernal
caption: Zhao
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