| Date | Event |
|---|
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1981 |
José Ardévol Died |
|
1981 |
Tony Aubin Died |
|
1981 |
Tadeusz Baird Died |
|
1981 |
Samuel Barber Died |
|
1981 |
Robert Russell Bennett Died |
|
1981 |
Roslyn Brogue Died |
|
1981 |
Cornelius Cardew Died |
|
1981 |
Hoagy Carmichael Died |
|
1981 |
Marius Casadesus Died |
|
1981 |
Nico Dostal Died |
|
August
16
1981 |
Alexandra du Bois Was Born |
|
1981 |
Ron Grainer Died |
|
1981 |
Howard Hanson Died |
|
March
10
1981 |
Bill Hopkins Died |
|
1981 |
Rami Khalife Was Born |
|
1981 |
Ingemar Liljefors Died |
|
1981 |
Nico Muhly Was Born |
|
1981 |
Ernst Pepping Died |
|
1981 |
Daniel Patrick Quinn Was Born |
|
1981 |
Vahram Sargsyan Was Born |
|
1981 |
Kazimierz Serocki Died |
|
1981 |
Heinrich Strecker Died |
|
1981 |
Geirr Tveitt Died |
|
1981 |
Harry Warren Died |
|
January
01
1981 |
Greece Enters The European Community |
|
January
01
1981 |
Palau Achieves Self-government - Still Not Independent |
|
1981 |
Hendrik Andriessen Died |
|
January
02
1981 |
Yorkshire Ripper Is Arrested In Sheffield |
|
January
08
1981 |
Farmer Sees UFO In Trans-en-Provence, France |
|
January
10
1981 |
FMLN Gaining Control In Salvadoran Civil War |
|
January
15
1981 |
Pope John Paul II Receives Lech Walesa |
|
January
17
1981 |
President Of Philippines Lifts Martial Law |
|
January
18
1981 |
Smith And Mayfield Parachute Off Skyscraper |
|
January
19
1981 |
US/Iran Agree To Release 52 American Hostages |
|
January
20
1981 |
Reagan Inaugurated, Iran Releases 52 Hostages |
|
January
21
1981 |
Ireland: DeLorean DMC-12 Production Begins |
|
January
25
1981 |
Mao Zedong's Widow Sentenced To Death |
|
January
28
1981 |
Reagan Lifts Price Controls Ending Crisis |
|
February
06
1981 |
Army Of Uganda Begins Ugandan Bush War |
|
February
08
1981 |
Greece: 21 Football Spectators Trampled To Death |
|
February
10
1981 |
Fire At Vegas Hilton Kills Eight |
|
February
11
1981 |
100,000 US Gallons Of Radioactive Coolant Leaked |
|
February
13
1981 |
Sewer Explosions Devastate Louisville, Kentucky |
|
February
14
1981 |
Dublin Nightclub Fire Kills 48 |
|
February
23
1981 |
Antonio Tejero Attempts Coup In Spain |
|
February
24
1981 |
Athens Earthquake Kills 16 |
|
March
01
1981 |
IRA Member Sands Begins Prison Hunger Strike |
|
March
05
1981 |
British Home Computer Launched By Sinclair Research |
|
March
06
1981 |
Cronkite Resigns CBS After 19 Years |
|
March
27
1981 |
Solidarity Movement In Poland |
|
March
30
1981 |
President Reagan Shot |
|
April
03
1981 |
First Portable Computer Unveiled In San Francisco |
|
April
04
1981 |
Iran Attacks Iraqi Airbase |
|
April
09
1981 |
Accidental Collision Sinks Japanese Cargo Ship |
|
April
11
1981 |
Riots In Brixton, South London Result In Numerous Injuries |
|
April
12
1981 |
First Columbia Shuttle Launch During STS-1 Mission |
|
April
14
1981 |
1st Shuttle Flight- Columbia - STS1 |
|
April
18
1981 |
Pawtucket: Longest MLB Game Temporarily Suspended |
|
April
25
1981 |
Japan: Nuclear Plant Repairs Expose 100 To Radiation |
|
April
26
1981 |
Harrison Performs First Open Fetal Surgery In California |
|
April
27
1981 |
Xerox PARC Introduces The Computer Mouse |
|
May
05
1981 |
Long Kesh Prisoner Dies After Hunger Strike |
|
May
06
1981 |
Maya Lin Wins To Design Memorialm |
|
May
10
1981 |
Mitterrand Becomes First Socialist President Of France |
|
May
12
1981 |
Hughes Dies In Irish Republican Hunger Strike |
|
May
13
1981 |
Pope Assassinated By Mehmet |
|
May
21
1981 |
Maze Prison: Irish Republicans Die, Hunger Strike |
|
May
21
1981 |
Italy Release Propaganda Due's Criminal List |
|
May
24
1981 |
President Aguilera Dies In Aircraft Accident |
|
May
25
1981 |
Gulf Cooperation Council Formed In Riyadh |
|
May
26
1981 |
Italian Arnaldo Forlani Resigns After Scandal |
|
May
26
1981 |
EA-6B Prowler Crashes On The Flight Deck Of USS Nimitz. Kills 14 |
|
May
31
1981 |
Jaffna Library Burned, Result Of Ethnic Biblioclasm |
|
June
05
1981 |
Rare Pneumonia Actually AIDS |
|
June
06
1981 |
Train Fell Bagmati River Death Toll 1000 |
|
June
07
1981 |
Iraqi Nuclear Reactor Destroyed By Israel |
|
June
11
1981 |
Quake Kills 2,000 In Iran |
|
June
13
1981 |
Teenager Shoots Blanks At Queen Elizabeth II |
|
June
16
1981 |
Reagan Awards Medal To Ken Taylor |
|
June
18
1981 |
Lockheed Nighthawk Makes First Flight |
|
June
24
1981 |
Humber Bridge Opens To Traffic |
|
June
25
1981 |
Microsoft Restructures, Incorporates In WA |
|
June
27
1981 |
Mao Zedong Blamed For Cultural Revolution |
|
June
28
1981 |
73 Islamic Republic Party Officials Killed, Tehran Bombing |
|
July
01
1981 |
L.A. Wonderland Murders Allegedly Organized By Nash |
|
July
07
1981 |
Reagan Appoints O'Connor To Supreme Court |
|
July
09
1981 |
Donkey Kong Is Released And Helps Start Mario, Future Mascot |
|
July
16
1981 |
Mohamad Becomes Malaysia's Prime Minister |
|
July
17
1981 |
UK: Humber Bridge Opens |
|
July
17
1981 |
Fatal Walkway Collapse At Kansas City, MO Hyatt |
|
July
19
1981 |
Mitterrand Reveals Soviet Spy Dossier |
|
July
27
1981 |
Barlow Marries Langton On British TV |
|
July
27
1981 |
Adam Walsh Was Kidnapped And Murdered After Two Weeks |
|
July
29
1981 |
Prince Charles Weds Lady Di |
|
August
01
1981 |
MTV Airs First Video By The Buggles |
|
August
03
1981 |
Senegalese Opposition Parties Launch Anti-imperialist Action |
|
August
05
1981 |
Reagan Fires Thousands Of Workers |
|
August
07
1981 |
Washington Star Ceases 128-year Publication Run |
|
August
10
1981 |
Walsh's Son Inspires America's Most Wanted |
|
August
12
1981 |
The IBM Personal Computer Is Released |
|
August
19
1981 |
U.S. Fighters Shoot Libyan Jets In 1981 |
|
August
24
1981 |
Lennon Murder: Chapman Gets 20 Years |
|
August
25
1981 |
Spacecraft Makes Closest Approach To Saturn |
|
August
30
1981 |
Iranian Leaders Assassinated In Bombing |
|
September
01
1981 |
Central African Republic Coup Overthrows President |
|
September
15
1981 |
O'Connor First Female Supreme Court Justice |
|
September
15
1981 |
John Bull Becomes Oldest Operable Steam Locomotive |
|
September
15
1981 |
Vanuatu Enducted Into United Nations |
|
September
18
1981 |
Assemblée Nationale Abolish Capital Punishment In France |
|
September
19
1981 |
Simon And Garfunkel Reunite For Concert |
|
September
21
1981 |
Belize Independent From United Kingdom |
|
September
21
1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor First Female Supreme Court Justice |
|
September
25
1981 |
Belize Joins The United Nations |
|
September
26
1981 |
Nolan Ryan Sets Baseball Record |
|
October
03
1981 |
Hunger Strike Ends In Northern Ireland |
|
October
06
1981 |
Ehyptian President Answar Al-Sadat Is Murdered |
|
October
09
1981 |
Abolition Of Capital Punishment In France |
|
October
14
1981 |
Mubarak Elected President After Sadat Assassinated |
|
October
20
1981 |
BLA And Weather Underground Kill Three |
|
October
21
1981 |
PM Papandreou's Election Ends Conservative Streak |
|
October
22
1981 |
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Decertifyed |
|
October
27
1981 |
Soviet Submarine U137 Runs Aground In Sweden |
|
November
01
1981 |
Independence From U.K. For Antigua And Barbuda |
|
November
11
1981 |
Antigua And Barbuda Joins United Nations |
|
November
12
1981 |
Mission STS-2 Was The 1st Time Space Was Used Twice |
|
November
23
1981 |
Ronald Reagan |
|
November
25
1981 |
Cardinal Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI |
|
November
28
1981 |
Schoolchildren Experience Marian Apparitions |
|
November
30
1981 |
U.S., Soviets, In Geneva Weapons Negotiations |
|
December
01
1981 |
Inex-Adria Flight Crashes In Corsica |
|
December
04
1981 |
South Africa Grants Independence To Ciskei |
|
December
11
1981 |
900 Civilians Dead During Salvadoran Civil War |
|
December
13
1981 |
Martial Law Declared. Prevents Solidarity In Poland |
|
December
14
1981 |
Knesset Extends Israel Law To Occupied Golan Heigts |
|
December
15
1981 |
Suicide Car Bomb At Iraqi Embassy |
|
December
17
1981 |
American General Abducted In Italy |
|
December
19
1981 |
16 Dead On Stricken Union Star |
|
December
30
1981 |
Gretzy Breaks Hockey Record His Third Year |
|
December
31
1981 |
A Coup Removes Ghana's President |