Following Sands' victory and death shortly afterwards, the British government passed legislation barring "convicted felons" from standing for Parliament. As a result another prisoner on hunger strike could not be nominated. Instead Owen Carron, who had served as Sands' agent in the earlier election, was nominated as a "Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner". The Ulster Unionists nominated a new candidate, Ken Maginnis, who had recently retired from the Ulster Defence Regiment with the rank of Major, who was on the liberal wing of the party. ...

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1981 - January. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days January 16 - Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband Januar ...

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1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. 1981 - Events. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days Janua ...

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1981 - January-February. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days January 16 - Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband < ...

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1981 - January-March. January 1 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver January 3 - Eli Manning, American football player January 6 - Mike Jones, American rapper January 12 - Quentin Griffin, American football player January 15 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer January 15 - Howie Day, American singer and songwriter January 17 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor January 20 - Jason Richardson, American basketball player Januar ...

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The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli in 1915 during the First World War. A combined British Empire and French operation was mounted in order to eventually capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul). The attempt failed, and an estimated 505,000 soldiers were killed and 262,000 wounded. In Turkey the campaign is known as the Çanakkale Savaşları. In the United Kingdom it is called the Dardanelles Campaign and in France, Australia, New Zealan ...

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IMx, formerly known as Immature, is an American hip-hop and R&B boy band. The brainchild of record producer Chris Stokes, its members include Marques "Batman" Houston (born August 4, 1981), Jerome "Romeo" Jones (born October 25, 1981), and Kelton "LDB" Kessee (born January 2, 1981), who replaced founding member Don "Half Pint" Santos. Houston, Jones, and Kessee are all natives of Los Angeles, California. IMx - History. The group released their debut LP, On Our Worst Behavior, on the Virgin ...

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In the mathematical area of order theory, completeness properties assert the existence of certain infima or suprema of a given partially ordered set. A special use of the term refers to complete partial orders or complete lattices. However, many other interesting notions of completeness exist. The motivation for considering completeness properties derives from the great importance of suprema (least upper bounds, joins, "") and infima (greatest lower bounds, meets, "") to the theory of partial orders. Finding a supremum means to ...

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January January 1 - Lear Fan 2100 March March 28 - Dornier 228 April April 10 - SIAI Marchetti S.211 prototype I-SITF April 15 - Dassault-Breguet Guardian June June 18 - F-117 Nighthawk September September 3 - BAe 146 September 26 - Boeing 767 November November 5 - AV-8B Harrier II December< ...

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Brendan Joseph Hansen (born August 15, 1981 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is an American swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke. Despite setting the world record in the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke at the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials, he did not manage to win a gold medal in either event at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as he settled for silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. He would win a gold in those games for his role in the world-record setting 4 x 100 medley relay. At the 2005 World Aquatics Championships, Hansen won gold in the same three ...

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Arthur Betz Laffer, Sr. (born August 14, 1940) is a supply side economist who became influential during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-1989). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve, which demonstrates that in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues. Although he does not claim to have invented this concept (Laffer, 2004), it was popularized with policy-makers following an afternoon meeting with Dick Cheney in which he reportedly s ...

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Vernon Eulion Jr. Jordan (born August 15, 1935) is a American business executive. He has been dubbed a Washington "Power Broker" by many. Vernon graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1957. He later received his J.D. in 1960. In 1970 he became executive director of the United Negro College Fund and later president of the National Urban League between 1972 and 1981. In 1980 he was wounded by a sniper in Fort Wayne, Indiana and he later resigned from the National Urban League to take a position as leg ...

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Calvin Edwin Ripken, Jr. (born August 24, 1960 in Havre de Grace, Maryland) is a former shortstop and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles from 1981 to 2001. He was raised in Aberdeen, Maryland, a town near his birthplace, in a home steeped in baseball. His father, Cal Sr., was a long-time coach in baseball who managed the Orioles in the late 1980s. His brother, Billy Ripken, played second base for various teams, including the Orioles. He has two other siblings, Ellie and Fred. He is married and has a dau ...

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The ATR 42 and ATR 72 are a family of twin-turboprop short-haul regional airliners built in France by ATR (Avions de Transport Régional). The ATR 42 seats up to 60 passengers, while the ATR 72 seats 74 passengers. Both aircraft are operated by a 2 person crew. ATR 42/72 - History. The ATR 42 is the initial version and was announced in 1981, having its first flight August 16, 1984. The ATR 72 is the basic ATR 42 stretched by 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) and with modified wings. The ATR ...

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1981 in aviation - January. January 3 - Pan Am makes its final Boeing 707 flight. January 7 - a Boeing 747 of CAAC lands at JFK International Airport, marking the first time since 1949 that a flight from mainland China to the United States is performed. January 18 - Bell Helicopter delivers its 25,000th production helicopter. January 28 - Pan Am commenc ...

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1981 in South Africa - February. Two people are injured when a bomb explodes in a Durban shopping centre 1981 in South Africa - April. 14 April - A section of railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid is destroyed by Umkhonto we Sizwe and coal trucks derailed 16 April - Bishop Desmond Tutu is arrested and his passport is confiscated 21 April - Limpet mines explode as destroy two ...

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1981 in South Africa - Football Rugby Union. 30 May - The South Africa (Springboks) beat Ireland 23-15 6 June - The Springboks beat Ireland 12-10 ...

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Pamela Rosenberg came from a background of operatic productions in Germany and, specifically, from the Stuttgart Opera. In January of 2001, Pamela Rosenberg announced her first artistic initiative for San Francisco Opera, “Animating Opera”, a multi-year plan of interwoven themes and series. These included “Seminal Works of Modern Times”, “The Faust Project”, “Composer Portrait: Janacek/Berlioz”, “Women Outside of Society: Laws Unto Themselves”, “Metamorphosis: From Fairy Tales to Nightmares”, and “Outsiders o ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Fresh from 33 years of directing the Houston Grand Opera, Gockley took up his post on 1st January 2006 and plans to announce the 2006/2007 season on 11th January. Gockley's achievements in Houston were ennormous. He oversaw the major growth of the company and has been especially innovative in the presentation of 28 world premieres and six American premieres. ...

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