November 1981 in History

Events in History

Nov 16 President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador

Nov 19 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 billion for Marathon Oil
Nov 20 Burundi adopts its constitution
Nov 20 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
Nov 21 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
Nov 22 Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
Nov 22 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
Nov 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 23 President Reagan vetoes House Joint Resolution 357 which called for further appropriations for fiscal year 1982
Nov 24 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
Nov 25 Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles

Nov 25 Pope John Paul II names Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger "Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith"

Nov 28 New Zealand general election won by ruling National party and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon

Nov 29 Major Iranian offensive mounted on central front
Nov 30 Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17)
Nov 30 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
Nov 30 South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested

Nov 6 Cassie Bernall, American murder victim, born in Wheat Ridge, Colorado (d. 1999)
Nov 10 Jason L. Dunham, American Corporal in the United States Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient, born in Scio, New York (d. 2004)
Nov 11 Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, born in Luxembourg City
Nov 13 Rivkah, American comic book writer and artist (Steady Beat), born in Austin, Texas

Nov 25 American activist (Global Health Corps) and twin daughter of US President George W. Bush, born in Dallas, Texas

Nov 25 Jenna Bush Hager, American author, news personality (Today with Hoda & Jenna) and twin daughter of US President George W. Bush, born in Dallas, Texas
Nov 25 Mauricio Rua, Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist
Nov 26 Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
Nov 26 Natalie Gauci, Australian Idol 2007 winner, born in Melbourne, Australia
Nov 28 Sharon Needles [Aaron Coady], American drag queen, recording artist and TV performer (RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 winner), born in Newton, Iowa

Nov 2 Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, dies at 70
Nov 3 Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator, dies at 85

Nov 7 American author and historian (The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization), dies at 96

Nov 15 Walter Heitler, German physicist, quantum field theorist, philosopher, and writer (Man and Science), dies at 77
Nov 19 Griffiths Mxenge, South African anti-apartheid activist, murdered at 46
Nov 20 Rolf Bongs, German writer, dies at 74
Nov 22 Hans Krebs, German-British doctor and research biochemist specializing in metabolic reactions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), dies at 81 [1]
Nov 29 Alphonse de Waelhens, Belgian philosopher (Psychosis), dies at 70
Nov 29 Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)