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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1980s | |
| By this point, 22 percent of all restaurant dining was occurring in fast-food outlets. | 1 |
| 1980, March 6 | |
| Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman elected to the Académie Française. | 2 |
| April 15 | |
| Death of Jean-Paul Sartre. | 3 |
| Oct. 3 | |
| A bombing outside of a synagogue on rue Copernic in Paris killed four persons and injured ten. The terrorist attack raised fears that nascent anti-Semitism in French society could burgeon. President Giscard d'Estaing responded by launching a campaign against neo-Nazi and other racist organizations. | 4 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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