Josip Broz Tito died on 4 May 1980 in Ljubljana, aged 87. A Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, Tito was born Josip Broz in a village in Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army, was captured by Russia in the First World War and became a communist. During the Second World War he led the Partisan resistance against the Axis occupation and, after the war, ruled Yugoslavia as a one-party state until his death. In 1948 he broke with Stalin, and Yugoslavia followed an independent course, developing a system of workers' self-management and becoming a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. He kept the multi-ethnic federation together by balancing its nations, and after his death in 1980 it began to unravel, breaking apart in the 1990s.
Before and after
- 15 April 1980Death of Jean-Paul Sartre
- from 24 April 1980 to 25 April 1980Operation Eagle Claw
- 29 April 1980Death of Alfred Hitchcock
- from 30 April 1980 to 5 May 1980Iranian Embassy Siege
- 4 May 1980Death of Josip Broz Tito
- 8 May 1980Smallpox is declared eradicated
- 17 May 1980Internal conflict in Peru
- from 18 May 1980 to 27 May 1980Gwangju Uprising
- 1 June 1980Founding of CNN
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