Events
DateEvent
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