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 in Australia - Unknown Dates. Public funding of election campaigns introduced in New South Wales. ...

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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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See also: 1980 in film 1981 1982 in film 1980s in film years in film film 1981 in film - Events. January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it. November 29 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating ...

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See also: 1980 in music, other events of 1981, 1982 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1981 in music - Events. January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14 - Billy Idol leaves the band Generation X to begin a solo career February 15 - Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield is found dead in San Francisco. The cause of death was ruled an accide ...

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The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike was a campaign by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland for the British government to grant them political status. It was a seminal event in modern Irish history. It radicalised nationalist politics, and was the midwife to Sinn Féin as a serious political force, which ultimately led to it overtaking the SDLP as the main nationalist party in Northern Ireland. 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - Background. The process which led up to Hunger Strikes began in 1976. As part ...

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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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The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are organised and governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Some of the sports that were on the program of the World Games eventually made it as Olympic sports (such as triathlon) or have been Olympic sports in the past (like tug of war). Participation in past World Games is included in the ...

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See also: 1981 in film 1982 1983 in film 1980s in film years in film film 1982 in film - Events. January 11 - Production begins on the Star Wars film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The THX Sound System is developed for use in movie theaters. Hugh Grant makes his film debut. The Coca-Cola Company acquires Columbia Pictures 1982 in film - Top grossing filmsIncluding:

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See also: 1979 in film 1980 1981 in film 1970s in film 1980s in film years in film film 1980 in film - Events. April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London. Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA) 1980 in film - Top three grossing films. North America St ...

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Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent search for a new boxing hero, the continuous presence of Don King as the sport's most famous promoter and the surge of rival promoters as Bob Arum, Butch Lewis and Murad Muhammad. In 1986, Mike Tyson cro ...

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The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is one of the premier academic competitions in the United States. It was started by Dr. Robert Peterson in Orange County, California for local schools in 1968, but was expanded to a nation-wide competition in 1981. United States Academic Decathlon - Team makeup and eligibility. The USAD is unique in terms of the breadth of knowledge and diversity of teams that it requires, as it requires students that fall into three categories, which are determined by a modified ...

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See also: 1979 in music, other events of 1980, 1981 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1980 in music - Events. 1980 in music - January. January 1 - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and Elton John January 2 - At the age of 45, songwriter Larry Williams is found dead in his Los Angeles, California home of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators are neve ...

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See also: 1981 in music, other events of 1982, 1983 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1982 in music - Events. January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida. January 17 - Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home January 20 - Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during ...

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Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. While attending an indoor soccer game in 1981 at Madison Square Garden, he developed the basic rules of the sport. Over the next five years, he continued to modify the rules, and play some test games, until he was ready to launch the Arena Football League in 1987. The league spawned a minor league called af2 in 2000. Other people have started their own indoor football leagues. These leagues do not ...

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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 baseball - Events. 1981 in baseball - January-March. January 15 - In his first year of eligibility, former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson is the only person elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Players falling short of the 301 votes needed for election include Don Drysdale (243), Gil Hodges (241), Harmon Killebrew (239), Hoyt Wilhelm (238) and Juan Marichal (233). March 11 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the ...

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1981 in rail transport - February events. February - Amtrak debuts the Desert Wind passenger train between Los Angeles, California, and Ogden, Utah. February 21 - MBTA discontinues passenger train service to Rhode Island. 1981 in rail transport - May events. May - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD50. 1981 in rail transport - September events. September 1 - Illinois Ter ...

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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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