1981 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1981?
- January 8, 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
- February 5, 1981 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 6, 1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
- February 10, 1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- February 14, 1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
- March 6, 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- April 11, 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- April 14, 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- April 25, 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- May 21, 1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
- May 26, 1981 – Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
- June 27, 1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
- August 7, 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- September 21, 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
- September 25, 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
- September 26, 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
- November 1, 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 12, 1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
- December 11, 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
- December 13, 1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
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