Events in History in 1981 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 413

• Jun 25 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington
• Jun 25 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration as constitutional

• Jun 27 Cambodia adopts its constitution
• Jun 27 Pamela Jenks, aged 21, is crowned the 14th Miss Black America
• Jun 28 74 government officials die in attack on Islamic Republican Party conference in Tehran, Iran, including Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti
• Jun 29 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Tehran, 72 killed

• Jun 30 Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
• Jul 1 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
• Jul 1 Nell Dunn's "Steaming" premieres in London

• Jul 1 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
• Jul 3 NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
• Jul 5 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
• Jul 5 Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory
• Jul 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Jul 7 The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel
• Jul 8 France performs nuclear test
• Jul 8 French Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
• Jul 8 Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
• Jul 9 Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
• Jul 10 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
• Jul 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Jul 11 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 11 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
• Jul 14 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
• Jul 16 India performs nuclear Test
• Jul 16 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
• Jul 17 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
• Jul 17 Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
• Jul 17 Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world's longest span (1.4 km)
• Jul 17 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
• Jul 17 Lobby walkways at Kansas City's Hyatt Regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring over 200
• Jul 17 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jul 18 Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
• Jul 20 England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
• Jul 21 Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
• Jul 22 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in Rome, Italy
• Jul 24 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
• Jul 26 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

• Jul 29 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Jul 29 Former Iranian president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
• Jul 30 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
• Jul 30 Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" premieres in London
• Jul 31 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
• Jul 31 Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired

• Aug 3 France performs nuclear test in Pacific
• Aug 3 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
• Aug 4 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission

• Aug 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 5 US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
• Aug 6 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron freed
• Aug 6 NASA launches US Navy communication system Fltsatcom-5 - fails after being damaged during flight
• Aug 7 "The Washington Star" ceases all operations after 128 years of publication
• Aug 8 At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
• Aug 9 NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
• Aug 9 Six English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
• Aug 10 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
• Aug 10 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente, California closes
• Aug 12 IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0)
• Aug 12 Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
• Aug 14 George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
• Aug 19 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
• Aug 24 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
• Aug 25 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)

• Aug 26 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
• Aug 26 Voyager 2 takes photos of Saturn's moon Titan
• Aug 27 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria
• Aug 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Aug 28 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
• Sep 1 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
• Sep 1 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees
• Sep 1 Northern Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
• Sep 1 RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show

• Sep 2 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 9 Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
• Sep 10 "Guernica" painting by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
• Sep 11 2nd government of Van Agt forms in Netherlands
• Sep 12 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand: "All hell breaks loose" as anti-tour supporters fight police and planes flour-bomb the deciding third match won by the All Blacks 25-22 [1]
• Sep 13 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
• Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 14 Judge Wapner & People's Court premiere on TV

• Sep 15 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
• Sep 15 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court
• Sep 15 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
• Sep 18 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• Sep 19 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
• Sep 20 Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal
• Sep 21 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from UK
• Sep 22 Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to US Supreme Court
• Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 25 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as the 1st female US Supreme Court Justice
• Sep 26 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 27 Iran defends its besieged port of Abadan, driving back Iraqi forces
• Sep 28 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
• Sep 30 French parliament votes to abolish the death penalty, led by Minister of Justice Robert Badinter
• Sep 30 Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to KC 5-2
• Oct 1 J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder" premieres in London

• 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 9 Abolition of capital punishment in France.

• 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 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 25 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
• Oct 27 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• Oct 27 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• Oct 28 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
• Nov 1 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
• Nov 1 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• Nov 4 Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" premieres in NYC
• Nov 4 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
• Nov 4 Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
• Nov 5 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of cocaine
• Nov 7 France performs nuclear test
• Nov 8 Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
• Nov 10 Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz" premieres in NYC
• Nov 12 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
• Nov 12 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
• Nov 12 Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal" premieres in NYC
• Nov 12 Great Britain performs nuclear test
• Nov 14 2nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 2 returns to Earth
• Nov 14 Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired and working again
• Nov 14 Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18
• Nov 14 Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
• 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 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
• Dec 1 Yugoslavian charter flight crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, 180 killed
• Dec 2 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, opens at 11:30 AM
• Dec 2 Spanish government requests membership of NATO
• Dec 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 4 According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa.
• Dec 4 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
• Dec 5 France performs nuclear test
• Dec 7 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
• Dec 8 France performs nuclear test
• Dec 9 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
• Dec 10 -13] El Salvador army kills 900
• Dec 10 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC
• Dec 10 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
• Dec 11 Argentine President General Roberto Viola flees
• Dec 11 El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.
• Dec 11 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
• Dec 11 UN Security Council chooses Javier Pérez de Cuélla of Peru as the 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Dec 12 Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
• Dec 13 Poland's authoritarian communist government declares martial law and arrests Solidarity activists in a failed attempt to crush the opposition
• Dec 14 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
• Dec 15 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
• Dec 16 Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls

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