Common year starting on Thursday
Calendar year
1981 (MCMLXXXI ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium , the 81st year of the 20th century , and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
February
February 4 – Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway .[8]
February 8 – In Greece, 20 fans of Olympiacos F.C. and 1 fan of AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured, after a stampede at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus , possibly because Gate 7 does not open immediately after the end of the game.
February 9 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Pińkowski resigns, and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski .[9]
February 14 – Stardust fire : A fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin , Ireland in the early hours kills 48 people and injures 214.[10]
February 17 –22 – Pope John Paul II visits the Philippines .
February 23 – 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt ("23-F"): Antonio Tejero , with members of the Guardia Civil , enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The coup fails after being denounced by King Juan Carlos .[11]
February 24 – A powerful, 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Athens , killing 22 people, injuring 400 people and destroying several buildings and 4,000 houses, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki , Kiato and Xylokastro .
March
April
May
May – Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari project in the Amazon basin .
May 1 – Pensions in Chile : The new Chilean pension system, based on private pension funds , begins.
May 4 – The European Law Students' Association (ELSA) was founded in Vienna by law students from Austria, West Germany, Poland and Hungary.
May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin 's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. from 1,421 other entries.
May 13 – Pope John Paul II assassination attempt : Pope John Paul II is shot by Mehmet Ali Ağca , a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience. The Pope recovers.[14]
May 15 – A prison officer, 31-year-old Donna Payant , disappears at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York. She is later found to have been murdered by convicted serial killer Lemuel Smith . It is the first time a female prison officer has been killed while on duty in the United States.[15]
May 21 – François Mitterrand becomes the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic .
May 22 – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder in England.
May 25 – In Riyadh , the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .
May 26 – The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due .
May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong .
May 31 – Burning of Jaffna library , one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century.
June
June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems , the first recognized cases of AIDS .
June 6 – Bihar train disaster : Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the Bagmati River in Bihar , India, killing between 500 and 800.
June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician.
June 10 – Alfredo Rampi, a 6-year-old boy, falls into an artesian well in Vermicino, near Rome. After nearly three days of failed rescue attempts followed with bated breath from all over Italy, Alfredino dies inside the well, at a depth of 60 meters.
June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, teenager Marcus Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots close to Queen Elizabeth II , startling her horse.[16] [17]
June 18
June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.
June 27
July
July 1 – Wonderland murders : The Wonderland Gang of cocaine dealers is brutally murdered in Los Angeles.[21] Eddie Nash is suspected of involvement, but will never be convicted.[22]
July 3 – The Toxteth riots in Liverpool , England, start after a mob saves a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds start after increased racial tension.
July 7 – United States President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor , to the Supreme Court of the United States .[23]
July 9 – Donkey Kong is released, marking the first Donkey Kong and Mario smash hit arcade game developed by Nintendo in Japan.
July 10
July 16 –21 – England become the first team this century to win a cricket Test match after the follow-on when they beat Australia by 18 runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.
July 17
July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour commences in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of apartheid .
July 21 – Panda Tohui is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.
July 29 – A worldwide television audience of over 750 million people watch the Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London, UK.[26]
July 30 – 1981 Polish hunger demonstrations : As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in Łódź to protest about food ration shortages in Communist Poland .[27]
August
August 1 – The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched in the United States and airs its first video, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles .[28]
August 9 – 1981 Major League Baseball strike ends in the United States, and Major League Baseball resumes with the All-Star Game in Cleveland 's Municipal Stadium .[29]
August 12 – The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.[30]
August 19 – Gulf of Sidra incident : Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. Navy fighters over the Gulf of Sidra . The U.S. jets destroy the Libyan fighters.[31]
August 23 – South African troops attack SWAPO bases in Xangongo and Ongiva , Angola , during Operation Protea .[32]
August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering John Lennon in Manhattan eight months earlier.
August 27 – North Korea fires a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flying in South Korean and international airspace. The missile misses and the airplane is unharmed.[33]
August 30 – 1981 Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing : Eight people, including the country's president and prime minister, are killed when a briefcase, planted by People's Mujahedin of Iran , explodes in the building.[34]
August 31 – A bomb explodes at the United States Ramstein Air Base in West Germany, injuring 20 people.
September
September 1 – Gregorio Conrado Álvarez is inaugurated as a military de facto President of Uruguay .[35]
September 4 – An explosion at a mine in Záluží , Czechoslovakia , kills 65 people.
September 7 - British plantation company, Guthrie was taken over by the Malaysian government after successfully purchasing shares to become the major shareholder. This is famously called the 'Dawn Raid attack'.[36]
September 10 – Picasso 's painting Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid .
September 15
September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City .
September 18 – France's National Assembly votes to abolish Capital punishment in France .[37]
September 19 – Solidarity Day march , in support of organized labor, draws approximately 250,000 people in Washington, D.C.
September 20 – The overcrowded ferry boat Sobral Santos II capsizes in the Amazon River , Óbidos, Brazil , killing at least 300 people.[38]
September 21 – Belize , formerly British Honduras , gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
September 25 – Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court .
September 26
September 27 – TGV high-speed rail service between Paris and Lyon , France, begins.
September 27 –29 – Iran–Iraq War : Iranian forces break the Siege of Abadan in Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh .[40]
October
November
December
December 1 – An Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-80 strikes a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica , killing all 180 people on board.
December 4 – South Africa grants Ciskei independence, not recognized outside South Africa.
December 7 – Rotary International charters the Rotary Club of Grand Baie, Mauritius .
December 8
December 10 – During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels , Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO .
December 11
December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland , to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity .
December 15 – A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed.
December 17 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades .
December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat disaster : While attempting to rescue those on board the Union Star off the coast of South-West Cornwall , the lifeboat Solomon Browne is lost with all crew. Sixteen people in all are killed.[50]
December 28 – The first American test-tube baby , Elizabeth Jordan Carr , is born in Norfolk, Virginia .
December 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann 's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings .
Date unknown
January to March – Heavy snow causes many houses and buildings to collapse in northwestern Japan ; 152 are killed.
Cuba suffers a major outbreak of dengue fever , with 344,203 cases.[51]
Use of crack cocaine , a smokeable form of the drug, first reported in the United States and Caribbean .[52]
Luxor AB presents the ABC 800 computer.
Polybius , an urban legend game, is said to have been released in Portland, Oregon ; there is no evidence for its existence.
The State Council of the People's Republic of China lists the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou , Suzhou and Guilin as those where the protection of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be treated as a priority project.
Pepsi enters China .[53]
China becomes the first country to ever reach a population of 1 billion around the end of 1981.[54]
Births
January
January 1
January 2 – Maxi Rodríguez , Argentine footballer
January 3 – Eli Manning , American football player[56]
January 5 – Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman), Canadian DJ/producer[57]
January 6 – Rinko Kikuchi , Japanese actress
January 8
January 9 – Euzebiusz Smolarek , Polish footballer
January 10 –
January 11 – Jamelia , British singer
January 15
January 17 – Ray J , American rapper and singer
January 19 – Lucho González , Argentine footballer[60]
January 20
January 21 – Izabella Miko , Polish actress and dancer
January 25
January 26 – Gustavo Dudamel , Venezuelan conductor[65]
January 27
January 28 – Elijah Wood , American actor and producer[68]
January 30 – Dimitar Berbatov , Bulgarian footballer
January 31
February
February 2 – Emily Rose , American actress
February 3 – Ben Sigmund , New Zealand footballer[71]
February 4
February 5 – Nora Zehetner , American actress
February 8
February 9 – Tom Hiddleston , British actor
February 10
February 11
February 12 – Selena Li , Hong Kong actress
February 17
February 18 – Andrei Kirilenko , Russian basketball player
February 23 – Josh Gad , American actor, comedian, and singer[72]
February 24 – Lleyton Hewitt , Australian tennis player[73]
February 25
February 27
March
March 1 – Will Power , Australian racing driver
March 2 – Bryce Dallas Howard , American actress[77]
March 3
March 5 – Hanna Alström , Swedish actress
March 10
March 11 – Matthias Schweighöfer , German actor, director and producer
March 13 – Olena Kot , Ukrainian journalists.[79] [80]
March 15 – Young Buck , American rapper
March 17 – Kyle Korver , American basketball player[81]
March 18
March 19 – Kolo Touré , Ivorian football player
March 26 – Luke Ford , Canadian-Australian actor
March 28
March 29 – Megan Hilty , American actress and singer
March 31 – Maarten van der Weijden , Dutch Olympic swimmer
April
May
May 1 – Alexander Hleb , Belarusian football player[86]
May 5 – Craig David , English singer[87]
May 8 – Stephen Amell , Canadian actor
May 11
May 12
May 13 – Rebecka Liljeberg , Swedish actress
May 15
May 16 – Joseph Morgan , English actor[90]
May 17 – Shiri Maimon , Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress
May 19
May 20
May 21 – Anna Rogowska , Polish pole vaulter
May 22
May 23 - Dessa , American Doomtree singer
May 24 – Andy Lee , Australian comedian and musician
May 25 – Logan Tom , American volleyball player[91]
May 26 – Anthony Ervin , American swimmer
May 27 – Alina Cojocaru , Romanian ballerina
May 29
June
June 1
June 3 – Mike Adam , Canadian curler
June 4
June 5 – Sébastien Lefebvre , Canadian musician (Simple Plan )
June 7
June 9
June 12 – Adriana Lima , Brazilian model
June 13 – Chris Evans , American actor
June 14 – Lonneke Engel , Dutch model
June 15 – Veljo Reinik , Estonian actor
June 17 – Amrita Rao , Indian actress
June 18 – Ella Chen , Taiwanese singer
June 21
June 23 – Joe Taslim , Indonesian actor and martial artist
June 24 – Júnior Assunção , Brazilian mixed martial artist
June 25
June 27 – Majida Issa , Colombian actress
June 28 – Mara Santangelo , Italian tennis player
June 29
July
July 1
Orlando Cruz , Puerto Rican boxer
Tim Reddy, International Man of Mystery
July 3
July 4 – Tahar Rahim , French actor
July 5
July 6
July 8 – Anastasia Myskina , Russian tennis player
July 11 – Susana Barreiros , Venezuelan judge
July 12 – Bojana Novakovic , Serbian-Australian actress
July 13
July 15 – Norhafiz Zamani Misbah , Malaysian footballer
July 17 – Mélanie Thierry , French actress
July 18 – Michiel Huisman , Dutch actor, musician and singer-songwriter[94]
July 19 – Nikki Osborne , Australian actress
July 21
July 22
July 23 –
July 24
July 25 – Finn Bálor (aka Fergal Devitt), Irish professional wrestler
July 26 – Maicon Douglas Sisenando , Brazilian footballer
July 27 – Li Xiaopeng , Chinese gymnast
July 29 – Fernando Alonso , Spanish double Formula 1 world champion[97]
July 30 – Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer (d. 2017 )[98]
August
August 3 – Fikirte Addis , Ethiopian fashion designer
August 4
August 5 – Anna Rawson , Australian professional golfer
August 6 - Leslie Odom Jr. , American actor
August 8
August 9 – Li Jiawei , Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
August 10
August 12
August 14
August 15
August 17 – Hinde Boulbayem
August 18 – Jan Frodeno , German triathlete
August 20 – Ben Barnes , English actor (Prince Caspian )
August 21 – Jarrod Lyle , Australian golfer (d. 2018 )
August 24 – Chad Michael Murray , American actor
August 25 – Rachel Bilson , American actress
August 27 – Patrick J. Adams , Canadian actor and director
August 29
September
October
October 1 – Roxane Mesquida , French actress
October 3 – Zlatan Ibrahimović , Swedish international[104]
October 5 – Enrico Fabris , Italian speed skater
October 8 – Chris Killen , New Zealand footballer[105]
October 12
October 15
October 16 – Caterina Scorsone , Canadian actress
October 19 – Dmitri Shlyakhtin , former Russian professional football player
October 20 – Stefan Nystrand , Swedish swimmer
October 21 – Nemanja Vidić , Serbian football player
October 23 – Huo Siyan , Chinese actress
October 24
October 25 – Shaun Wright-Phillips , English footballer
October 26 – Guy Sebastian , original Australian Idol 2003 singer
October 28
October 29
October 30
October 31 – Frank Iero , American guitarist (My Chemical Romance )
November
November 2
November 4 – Lakshmi Menon , Indian model
November 8 – Joe Cole , English footballer[109]
November 11
November 14 – Russell Tovey , British actor[110]
November 15 – Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer
November 16 - Kate Miller-Heidke , Australian singer, songwriter and actress[111]
November 18
November 19 – Yfke Sturm , Dutch model
November 20
November 22 – Song Hye-kyo , South Korean actress
November 25 – Xabi Alonso , Spanish footballer[112]
November 26
November 27 – Bruno Alves , Portuguese footballer
November 29 – Bakhyt Sarsekbayev , Kazakh Olympic boxer
December
December 2 – Britney Spears , American singer-songwriter, choreographer[113]
December 3
December 6 – Lior Suchard , Israeli mentalist
December 9 – Dia Mirza , Bollywood actress
December 11
December 13 – Amy Lee , American pianist/singer-songwriter (Evanescence )
December 14 – Amber Chia , Malaysian model and actress
December 15
December 16 – Krysten Ritter , American actress, musician, author, and model[115]
December 20 – Leo Bertos , New Zealand footballer[116]
December 24 – Dima Bilan , Russian pop-singer
December 26 – Nikolai Nikolaeff , Australian actor
December 27
December 28
December 29 – Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater[117]
Deaths
January
January 1
January 3
January 5
January 6 – A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (b. 1896 )[120]
January 10
January 11 – Beulah Bondi , American actress (b. 1889 )
January 12 – Sir John Nicoll , British colonial governor (b. 1899 )
January 13 – Robert Kellard , American actor (b. 1915 )
January 16 – Bernard Lee , English actor (b. 1908 )
January 19 – Francesca Woodman , American photographer (b. 1958 )
January 21 – Allyn Joslyn , American actor (b. 1901 )
January 23 – Samuel Barber , American composer (b. 1910 )
January 25 – Adele Astaire , American actress (b. 1896 )
January 27 – Léo Collard , Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1902 )
January 29 – Lajos Korányi , Hungarian footballer (b. 1907 )
January 30 – John Gordon , Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1912 )
January 31 – Cozy Cole , American jazz drummer (b. 1909 )
February
March
March 1 – Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón , 14th President of Panama (b. 1903 )
March 4 – Torin Thatcher , American actor (b. 1905 )
March 5 – Yip Harburg , American lyricist (b. 1896 )
March 6 – George Geary , English cricketer (b. 1893 )
March 7
March 9 – Max Delbrück , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906 )[122]
March 10 – Flavio Calzavara , Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900 )
March 11 – Kazimierz Kordylewski , Polish astronomer (b. 1903 )
March 14 – Paolo Grassi , Italian actor (b. 1919 )
March 15 – René Clair , French film director (b. 1898 )
March 20 – Gerry Bertier , American college football player (b. 1953 )
March 21 – Mark Donskoy , Russian Soviet film director (b. 1901 )
March 22
March 23
March 26 – Cyril Dean Darlington , English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, (b. 1903 )
March 29 – Eric Williams , 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911 )
March 30
March 31 – Frank Tieri , American gangster (b. 1904 )
April
May
May 1 – Barry Jones , American actor (b. 1893 )
May 3 – Nargis , Indian actress (b. 1929 )
May 5 – Bobby Sands , Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1954 )
May 6 – Frank O'Grady , Australian public servant (b. 1900 )
May 7 – Hiromichi Yahara , Imperial Japanese Army officer (b. 1902 )
May 8 – Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1897 )
May 9
May 11
May 12 – Benjamin Sheares , Singaporean politician and professor, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907 )
May 13 – Ben Andrews , American actor (b. 1942 )
May 14 – J. Posadas , Argentine politician (b. 1912 )
May 17 – Hugo Friedhofer , German-American film composer (b. 1901 )
May 18
May 20 – Dositej, Metropolitan of Skopje (b. 1906 )
May 21 – Yuki Shimoda , American actor (b. 1921 )
May 22 – Boris Sagal , Ukrainian-American television and film director (b. 1923 )
May 23
May 24
May 25
May 28
May 29 – Soong Ching-ling , Acting head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893 )
May 30
May 31
June
June 2 – Rino Gaetano , Italian musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1950 )
June 5 – Miguel Contreras Torres , Mexican actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1899 )
June 10
June 12 – Mahmoud Fawzi , Egyptian diplomat and political figure, 35th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1900 )
June 13 – George Walsh , American actor (b. 1889 )
June 14 – Sir Ronald Holmes , British government official in Hong Kong (b. 1913 )
June 16 – Sir Thomas Playford , Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (b. 1891 )
June 17 – Sir Richard O'Connor , British general (b. 1889 )
June 19
June 22
June 23 – Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907 )
June 28
July
July 1
July 3 – Ross Martin , American actor (b. 1920 )
July 7 – Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi , South Yemenite socialist leader, 1st President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen ) (b. 1920 )
July 8 – Joe McDonnell , Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1951 )
July 10 – Giorgio De Lullo , Italian actor and director (b. 1921 )
July 16 – Harry Chapin , American singer and songwriter (b. 1942 )
July 27 – William Wyler , American movie director (b. 1902 )[130]
July 28 – Stanley Francis Rother , American priest, martyr, and Blessed (b. 1935 )
July 29 – Robert Moses , American urban planner (b. 1888 )
July 31 – Omar Torrijos , Panamanian leader (b. 1929 )
August
September
September 1
September 2 – Enid Lyons , Australia politician (b. 1897 )
September 7 – Christy Brown , Irish writer and painter (b. 1932 )[132]
September 8
September 9
September 11 – Frank McHugh , American actor (b. 1898 )
September 12 – Eugenio Montale , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896 )[134]
September 14 – Charles L. Melson , American admiral (b. 1904 )
September 15
September 21 – Nigel Patrick , English actor (b. 1912 )
September 22 – Harry Warren , American songwriter (b. 1893 )
September 23 – Chief Dan George , Canadian actor and writer, tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (b. 1899 )
September 24 – Patsy Kelly , American actress (b. 1910 )
September 27 – Robert Montgomery , American actor and director (b. 1904 )
September 28
September 29
October
October 2
October 3 – Chrysostom Blashkevich , Soviet Benedict monk (b. 1915 )
October 4 – Freddie Lindstrom , American baseball player (New York Giants ) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905 )
October 5 – Gloria Grahame , American actress (b. 1923 )
October 6 – Anwar Sadat , 37th Prime Minister of Egypt and 3rd President of Egypt , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918 )
October 13
October 16
October 22 – Michael Granger , American actor (b. 1923 )
October 24 – Edith Head , American costume designer (b. 1897 )
October 25 – Barbara Bedford , American actress (b. 1903 )
October 27 – John Warburton , British actor (b. 1899 )
October 29 – Georges Brassens , French singer and songwriter (b. 1921 )
November
December
December 2 – Wallace Harrison , American architect (b. 1895 )
December 6 – Harry Harlow , American psychologist (b. 1905 )
December 7 – William Edmunds , Italian stage and screen character actor (b. 1886 )
December 8 – Ferruccio Parri , Italian partisan and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1905 )
December 13 – Cornelius Cardew , English composer (b. 1936 )
December 15
December 17
December 18 – Enrique Hertzog , Bolivian politician, 42nd President of Bolivia (b. 1896 )
December 23
December 26 – Suat Hayri Urguplu , Turkish politician, 11th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903 )
December 27 – Hoagy Carmichael , American jazz composer (b. 1899 )
December 28 – Allan Dwan , Canadian-born American film director (b. 1885 )
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
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