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. 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 January 20 - ...

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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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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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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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Barry Michael Rose (born 24 May 1934) is a renowned choir trainer and organist. He is best remembered for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer and HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981. Born in Chingford, England, Barry Rose grew up accompanying the choir of his local church. After a spell as organist at St. Andrew's, Kingsbury, at the age of 25 he became the youngest cathedral orga ...

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WaterAid is an international Non-profit organisation dedicated to helping people escape the poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation. It is based in London, United Kingdom and was established as a charitable trust on 21 July 1981. By 1987 its income exceeded £1 million per annum. In 2003, WaterAid was named UK charity of the year at the Charity Times Awards. It currently works in partnership with local organisations in 15 countries in Africa and Asia to help poor communities establish sustainable ...

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USS Honolulu (SSN-718), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Honolulu, Hawaii. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 15 September 1977 and her keel was laid down on 10 November 1981. She was launched on 24 September 1983 sponsored by Mrs. Joan B. Clark, and commissioned on 6 July 1985, with Capt. Robert M. Mitchell in command.

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Creative Technology Limited (SGX: C76) NASDAQ: CREAF is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore where the firm was initially founded by Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955) on July 1, 1981. It has more than 5000 employees worldwide. Sim still acts as CEO of the company. The US subsidiary of the company is known as Creative Labs, Inc. The company began as a computer repair shop, where Sim developed an add-on memory board for the Apple II computer. Later, they started creating customized ...

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1 Dutch was the sole official language until 1806, when the British officially replaced Dutch with English. Dutch was reincluded as a second official language in 1882. The Cape Colony was a part of South Africa under British rule during the 19th century. It stretched from the Atlantic Ocean eastwards: the final eastern boundary, after several wars against the Xhosa, stood at the Fish River. In the north, the Orange River, also known as the Gariep River, served for a long time as the boundary, although ...

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Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians, and is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his hit song "Rock Around the Clock". Haley was born William John Clifton Haley (some sources append "Junior" to his name, but his eldest son states that this is erroneous) in Highland Park, Michigan and was raised in Pennsylvania. In 1946, Haley joined his first professional group, a country band called the "Down Homers", after which he se ...

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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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Busan Subway Line 1 (coloured orange) is a north-south route on the subway system in Busan, South Korea. It is, as of 2005, 32.5 km long. Plans for this line were made in 1979. Two years later, in 1981, construction began on the first phase, between Nopo Dong and Beomnaegol, which was finished in July 1985. This stretch was 16.2 km long. Further extensions continued southward, with a 5.4-km extension from Beomnaegol to Jungang-dong opened in May 1987, a 4.5-km extension to Seodaeshin dong in February 1990, and a 6.4 km extension to Shinpyeong in June 1994. Line 1 of the B ...

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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 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 baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Yankees (4-2); Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, and Steve Yeager, co-MVPs American League Championship Series: New York Yankees (East) over Oakland Athletics (West) (3-0); Graig Nettles, MVP American League Division Series: New York Yankees (1st half) over Milwaukee Brewers (2nd half) (3-2); Oakland Athletics (1st half) over Kansas City Royals (2nd half) (3-0) National League Championship ...

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Cabinets listed chronologically. These are the cabinets under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (from May 1979 to November 1990). ...

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