Historical Events in 1981 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 650

• Aug 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 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 13 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 200 m butterfly record (2:05.96) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin
• Aug 13 Last broadcast of "The Waltons" on CBS-TV
• Aug 13 Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia versus England at Old Trafford
• Aug 14 George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront

• Aug 15 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
• Aug 16 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 100 m butterfly record (57.93) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin; holds 100/200m double WR
• Aug 16 Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
• Aug 18 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million

• 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
• Aug 29 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

• Aug 31 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
• Aug 31 MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
• Sep 1 Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
• Sep 1 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
• Sep 1 Mike Brearley's last day as England cricket captain in 6th Test draw v Australia at The Oval; maintains his unbeaten record at home as England's 3-1 series win confirmed
• 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 3 Longest MLB game in Fenway Park history is suspended after 19 innings at Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7; Mariners win 8-7 in 20 the following morning
• Sep 4 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings; Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7

• Sep 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 6 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
• Sep 7 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
• Sep 7 Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000
• Sep 8 British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses" created by John Sullivan, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce premieres on BBC One
• Sep 9 Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League in the US
• Sep 10 "Guernica" painting by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
• Sep 11 Second government of Dries van Agt forms in the 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 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
• Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Sep 14 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
• 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 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 19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a concert in Central Park, NYC,
• Sep 20 Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal
• Sep 21 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from UK
• Sep 21 Enterprise Radio (all sports) goes off the air

• Sep 21 US Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
• Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Sep 25 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Philadelphia)
• 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 International Olympic Committee votes to award Seoul, South Korea as host of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games
• 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 17-year-old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307
• Oct 2 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran

• Oct 3 Irish Nationalists at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
• Oct 3 Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances; Brewers beat Detroit, 2 - 1, for AL East title; Expos defeat NY Mets, 5 - 4, for NL East second playoff spot
• 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 6 Fokker Fellowship plane crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, killing all 17 passengers

• Oct 7 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3

• Oct 9 Abolition of capital punishment in France.

• Oct 11 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)

• Oct 11 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
• 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 14 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
• 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 NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
• Oct 18 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
• Oct 19 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant

• Oct 20 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
• 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
• Oct 31 1st live US radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)
• Nov 1 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
• Nov 1 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)

• Nov 3 Milwaukee Brewers future Baseball Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers (6-3 record, 28 saves and 1.04 ERA) wins American League Cy Young Award, with 22 of 28 possible 1st-place votes
• 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 11 LA Dodgers starter Fernando Valenzuela becomes first MLB rookie to win a Cy Young Award; Milwaukee Brewers' Rollie Fingers takes AL Award
• 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 13 Ringo Starr releases single "Wrack My Brain", written and produced by George Harrison, in the UK
• Nov 14 "Raise!" 11th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1982)
• 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 Dennis Lillee kicks Javed Miandad after he had waved his bat at Dennis
• Nov 16 President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador
• Nov 17 NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
• Nov 18 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
• 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 20 Ringo Starr releases album "Stop and Smell the Roses" in the UK

• Nov 21 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
• Nov 21 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
• Nov 28 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Almos Alonzo Stagg, becomes college football's winningest coach

• 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

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