October 1981 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 US's largest private investment bank Salomon Brothers sold to commodities trader Phibro Corporation for $483 million

Oct 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
Oct 2 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
Oct 3 Irish Nationalists at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
Oct 4 Meadowlands Arena opens in Rutherford, New Jersey
Oct 5 Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
Oct 5 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American (posthumously)

Oct 7 Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt

Oct 8 US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

Oct 10 Anwar Sadat's funeral service held in Cairo

Oct 11 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
Oct 13 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected President of Egypt
Oct 14 Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner
Oct 15 Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
Oct 16 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
Oct 16 Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
Oct 18 Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
Oct 18 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader

Oct 19 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel Prize for Physics (laser)

Oct 20 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
Oct 20 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
Oct 22 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
Oct 22 Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland
Oct 22 The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
Oct 22 The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
Oct 22 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame artificial sweetener for tabletop use following years of scrutiny
Oct 22 US national debt tops $1 trillion
Oct 22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Oct 23 US national debt hits $1 trillion

Oct 24 Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth

Oct 1 Deborah James, British teacher, journalist, author (You, Me and the Big C), and charity campaigner, born in London, England (d. 2022)
Oct 3 Beth Revis, American fantasy and science fiction author (Across the Universe trilogy), born in North Carolina
Oct 4 Ilhan Omar, Somali American politician (Rep-D-Minnesota 2018-) one of first Muslim women elected to US House, born in Mogadishu, Somalia
Oct 4 Scott Hammond, American photographer
Oct 8 Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia Guillermo, daughter of Princess Christina of the Netherland, born in Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct 27 Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier (FIS World C'ship gold Moguls 2007, bronze 2011), born in Penticton, British Columbia
Oct 29 Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer (Brisbane Lions), born in Port Fairy, Australia

Oct 30 American businesswoman and daughter of businessman Donald Trump, and his 1wst wife, Ivana, born in Manhattan, New York City

Oct 31 Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer (Give Me [Songs for Lovers]), born in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Oct 31 Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E, born in Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan

Oct 22 Best-selling author Michael Crichton (39) weds broadcast journalist Suzanne Childs

Oct 2 Harry Golden, Jewish-American journalist and writer (Only in America), dies at 79
Oct 3 Walter Mehring, German writer (Die Gedichte, Lieder und Chansons des Walter Mehring), dies at 85