Historical Events in 1981 (Part 2)

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• Mar 28 Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
• Mar 28 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua

• Mar 28 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)

• Mar 29 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
• Mar 29 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
• Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Mar 29 AIAW Women's Basketball Championship, Louisiana Tech beat Tennessee 79-59 in Eugene

• Mar 30 "Chariots of Fire" directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross and Ian Charleson premieres at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)
• Mar 31 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: "Can't Stop the Music" wins

• Apr 1 Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.

• Apr 2 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
• Apr 2 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
• Apr 3 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumps 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
• Apr 3 Race riots in London's Brixton area, England
• Apr 4 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
• Apr 4 135th Grand National: Bob Champion aboard 10/1 hope Aldaniti wins by 4 lengths from 8/1 favourite Spartan Missile
• Apr 4 26th Eurovision Song Contest: Bucks Fizz for United Kingdom wins singing "Making Your Mind Up" in Dublin
• Apr 5 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
• Apr 6 Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
• Apr 6 Belgian government of Mark Eyskens forms
• Apr 7 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec

• Apr 8 Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs

• Apr 9 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
• Apr 10 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
• Apr 10 France performs nuclear test
• Apr 10 Imprisoned Provisional IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament for Northern Ireland county of Fermanagh and South Tyrone

• Apr 11 Race riot in London area of Brixton


• Apr 11 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him

• Apr 12 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
• Apr 13 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
• Apr 13 Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
• Apr 14 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
• Apr 15 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award-winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
• Apr 16 "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
• Apr 17 Carl Gottlieb's movie "Caveman", starring Ringo Starr, Shelley Long, Barbara Bach, Dennis Quaid, Jack Gilford, and John Matuszak premieres
• Apr 17 New York Islander Dennis Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals vs Edmonton Oilers tie NHL record
• Apr 17 Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
• Apr 18 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox tie Rochester Red Wings 2-2 in 32 innings (game resumed 23rd June)
• Apr 19 Oakland A's runs record to 11-0
• Apr 19 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos" premieres in NYC
• Apr 20 85th Boston Marathon: Toshihiko Seko of Japan wins men's race in 2:09:26; Allison Roe of New Zealand takes women's title in 2:26:46
• Apr 20 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
• Apr 20 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
• Apr 20 "Fire and Smoke" single released by Earl Thomas Conley (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
• Apr 21 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
• Apr 22 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
• Apr 22 Almost 1 million West German metal workers go on strike
• Apr 22 Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts
• Apr 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Apr 22 More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history
• Apr 24 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
• Apr 24 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
• Apr 24 US ends grain embargo against USSR
• Apr 25 Seattle Mariners MLB manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Kingdome grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot
• Apr 25 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan
• Apr 26 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances

• Apr 27 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
• Apr 27 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
• Apr 28 Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
• Apr 28 "We’re Fighting Back" premieres on CBS in the US, based on the formation of the Guardian Angels

• Apr 29 NFL Draft: South Carolina running back George Rogers first pick by New Orleans Saints
• Apr 30 "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances

• May 1 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
• May 1 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
• May 2 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velásquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
• May 2 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
• May 3 "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
• May 3 "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
• May 4 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
• May 4 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
• May 4 Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
• May 5 16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
• May 5 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
• May 6 "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
• May 6 US expels Libyan diplomats
• May 8 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
• May 9 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian

• May 10 Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0

• May 12 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 performances
• May 12 NY Islanders tie own record with two shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
• May 13 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st European Cup Winner's Cup against Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2-1 in Düsseldorf

• May 14 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
• May 14 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
• May 15 "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs

• May 15 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
• May 15 SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television, debuts on NBC
• May 15 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Romanian) to Salyut 6

• May 16 106th Preakness: Jorge Velásquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
• May 16 Houston shortstop Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples as Astros beat Chicago Cubs, 6-1
• May 17 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
• May 17 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
• May 19 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
• May 19 5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh
• May 21 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
• May 21 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
• May 21 Stanley Cup Final, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY: NY Islanders win back-to-back titles; beat Minnesota North Stars, 5-1 for 4 games to 1 series win

• May 22 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
• May 23 Peter Sutcliffe is convicted for the "Yorkshsire Ripper" murders of 13 women at the Old Bailey in London and sentenced to life sentences for each
• May 23 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
• May 23 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501


• May 23 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez (22) becomes the youngest 3-division world champion in history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight champion Maurice Hope in 12 rounds in Las Vegas
• May 24 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
• May 24 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona, Spain
• May 25 Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified

• May 25 Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
• May 25 Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits
• May 26 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
• May 26 The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due)
• May 27 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
• May 27 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but umpire says no
• May 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• May 27 34th Cannes Film Festival: "Man of Iron" directed by Andrzej Wajda wins the Palme d'Or
• May 27 25th European Cup: Liverpool beats Real Madrid 1-0 at Paris
• May 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 30 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
• May 30 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
• May 30 LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendance in a season in only 22 games

• Jun 3 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
• Jun 4 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus

• Jun 5 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
• Jun 5 George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
• Jun 5 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
• Jun 6 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
• Jun 6 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
• Jun 6 A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river, killing 268 officially with another 300 or more missing

• Jun 7 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" & "42nd Street" win


• Jun 7 Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility

• Jun 8 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
• Jun 8 Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
• Jun 10 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail

• Jun 10 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
• Jun 11 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
• Jun 11 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
• Jun 11 Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake in Iran, kills at least 2,000

• Jun 12 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
• Jun 12 Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
• Jun 12 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti Presidential election
• Jun 13 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

• Jun 14 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
• Jun 17 Battle between Muslims & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
• Jun 18 Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jun 18 US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires
• Jun 18 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
• Jun 18 Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
• Jun 18 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
• Jun 19 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
• Jun 19 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
• Jun 19 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
• Jun 19 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched


• Jun 20 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
• Jun 20 Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
• Jun 20 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
• Jun 21 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
• Jun 21 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: David Graham wins his second major title and becomes the first Australian to win the US Open, 3 strokes ahead of runners-up George Burns and Bill Rogers

• Jun 21 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
• Jun 21 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
• Jun 22 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
• Jun 22 Iranian president Bani Sadr deposed

• Jun 23 "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
• Jun 23 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox finally beat Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings (game began 18th April)
• Jun 23 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
• Jun 23 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
• Jun 23 NYC Mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

• Jun 25 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional

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