• Source: 1980 in Liberia

      • Events in the year 1980 in Liberia.


      Incumbents


      President
      William Tolbert (until April 12)
      Samuel Doe (from April 14, as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council)
      Vice President
      Bennie Dee Warner (until April 12)
      Thomas Weh Syen (from April 14, as Co-Chairman of the People's Redemption Council)
      Chief Justice
      James A. A. Pierre (until April 12)
      Emmanuel Gbalazeh (after April 14)


      Events


      January 8 – The Progressive People's Party is registered.
      March 10 – George Boley is arrested on charges of treason and sedition.
      March 28 – The oppositional Progressive People's Party is banned by an act of the Legislature of Liberia.
      March 31 – Liberia establishes diplomatic ties with Ecuador.
      April 12 – 1980 Liberian coup d'état
      President William Tolbert is assassinated following an attack led by seventeen members of the Armed Forces of Liberia on the Executive Mansion.
      The Liberian Constitution of 1847 is suspended.
      George Boley is released from prison.
      April 14 – The People's Redemption Council is established, with Samuel Doe as its chairman, and head of state of Liberia.
      April 22 – The Doe regime executes five of President Tolbert's cabinet ministers and eight former Liberian officials by firing squad.
      April 30 – Former Vice President Bennie Dee Warner announces the formation of a government-in-exile in Ivory Coast with the intention of overthrowing the Doe regime.
      August 26 – Doe leaves to visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in his first international visit since his taking power.
      Full date unknown
      Matilda Newport Day is abolished.
      Liberia establishes formal diplomatic relations with Libya.


      Births


      May 22 – Eddie Watson, Liberian-born Ghanaian actor


      Deaths


      April 12 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia, in Monrovia (b. 1913)
      April 22 – Thirteen officials executed by the Doe Regime, including:
      Cyril Bright, former Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs
      Joseph J. Chesson, Minister of Justice
      Cecil Dennis, Secretary of State (b. 1931)
      Richard A. Henries, Speaker of the House of Representatives (b. 1908)
      Charles T. O. King, Deputy Minister for Agriculture
      David Franklin Neal, former Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs
      P. Clarence Parker II, Chairman of the National Investment Council and Treasurer of the True Whig Party
      James T. Phillips, former Minister of Finance and former Minister of Agriculture
      James A. A. Pierre, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
      John W. Sherman, Assistant Minister of Commerce and Trade
      Frank J. Stewart Sr., Director of the Budget
      Frank E. Tolbert, President Pro-Tempore of the Senate (b. 1910)
      E. Reginald Townsend, Chairman of the True Whig Party (b. 1917)
      November 10 – Momolu Dukuly, former Secretary of State, in Monrovia (b. 1903)


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