Historical Events in 1981 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 650

• 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 "Fire and Smoke" single released by Earl Thomas Conley (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
• Apr 20 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
• Apr 20 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
• 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 metalworkers go on strike

• 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 22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan
• 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 27 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL

• Apr 27 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
• Apr 28 "We’re Fighting Back" premieres on CBS in the US, based on the formation of the Guardian Angels
• Apr 28 Galician current Statute of Autonomy

• Apr 29 NFL Draft: South Carolina running back George Rogers first pick by New Orleans Saints
• May 1 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
• May 1 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3

• May 2 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
• 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 MLB pre-season Mayor's Trophy Game prior to inter-league play; NY Mets beat NY Yankees, 4-1 to hold 8-7-1 edge

• 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 NY Islanders tie their own record with two shorthanded playoff goals in a period vs Minnesota North Stars

• May 14 NASA launches space vehicle S-192

• 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 Houston shortstop Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples as Astros beat Chicago Cubs, 6-1
• May 17 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
• 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 19 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
• May 21 François Mitterrand becomes president of France

• 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 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
• May 23 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501

• May 24 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona, Spain

• 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 34th Cannes Film Festival: "Man of Iron" directed by Andrzej Wajda wins the Palme d'Or

• May 27 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but umpire says no
• May 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 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", his ninth studio album, includes John Lennon tribute "All Those Years Ago" (Featuring Paul and Ringo)
• 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 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 6 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
• Jun 7 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" (play) & "42nd Street" (musical) win
• Jun 7 Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
• Jun 8 MLB 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 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 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
• Jun 18 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
• Jun 18 US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires
• Jun 18 Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
• 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 Bread riots in Casablanca, Morocco, kill 66 people (government figure vs opposition estimate of 637)

• Jun 21 Socialists and communists win French parliamentary election
• Jun 22 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
• Jun 22 Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is impeached and removed from office, several of his associates are executed and he goes into hiding
• Jun 22 Iranian president Bani Sadr deposed

• Jun 23 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
• Jun 23 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
• 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 NYC Mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

• 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 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot

• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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 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 10 Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound" released
• Jul 11 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 11 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
• Jul 11 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 18 Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
• Jul 19 South African Springbok rugby team arrives in New Zealand beginning 56 days of 'near civil war' in the country between anti-apartheid protesters and tour supporters [1]
• 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 24 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
• Jul 25 Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby match between the provincial team Waikato and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game [1]
• Jul 26 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

• Jul 29 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa’s Consul in New Zealand
• Jul 29 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Jul 29 Deposed Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr flees to France
• Jul 29 Former Iranian president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
• Jul 30 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
• Jul 30 Simon Gray's play "Quartermaine's Terms" premieres in London
• Jul 30 UN Nations Human Rights Commission rules Canada violated International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in case of Wolastoqiyik woman Sandra Lovelace who lost her status through marriage [1]
• Jul 31 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
• Jul 31 Mid-season strike by MLB players ends after 42 days causing cancellation of 713 games; players and owners come to an agreement on free agent compensation
• Jul 31 Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired

• Aug 1 Music video cable channel MTV debuts in US at 12:01 AM with The Buggles song "Video Killed The Radio Star"
• Aug 2 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham takes 5 for 11 to end Australia's chase of 151 target, all out 121 for 29 run defeat in 4th Test at Edgbaston

• 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

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