President Jimmy Carter announces the American boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, protesting the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Olympics Games, hosted in Moscow by the Soviet Union, went on as scheduled despite 65 nations declining invitations to compete.
Year
1980
Date of Event
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