Posts tagged with ‘Moscow Olympics’

  • This Day in History March 21, 1980

    By Ruth on March 21, 2013
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    I have to admit that I remember 1984 Olympics and how everyone talked about the 1980 boycott.  I guess I didn’t pay attention to this boycott.  Notwithstanding, it was on this date in 1980, that President Jimmy Carter announced that the U.S.would boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics.  This came after the Soviet Union refused to withdraw from Afghanistan by the […]