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1981
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Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
- May - Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari project in the Amazon
- May 6 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
- May 13 - Pope John Paul II is shot at and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience. (Two days after Christmas in 1983, Pope John Paul went to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin)
- May 21 - In France, socialist François Mitterrand becomes president of the Republic.
- May 22 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, imprisoned for life for 13 counts of murder
- May 25 - In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- May 26 - The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell P-2
- May 30 - Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman assassinated in Chittagong.
- June 5 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California are have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
- June 6 - Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi, in Bihar, India - about 800 dead
- June 7 - Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor
- June 12 - Release of Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg
- June 13 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager Marcus Sargeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
- June 22 - Hamas attacks a travel agency in Greece - two dead
- June 22 - Iranian president Bani Sadr deposed
- June 29 - Morris Edwin Robert armed with a machine gun holds hostages in the FBI section in Atlanta Federal Building. After three hours the hostages are rescued - Robert is shot
July-October
November-December
- November 1 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 9 - Céline Dion's first album is released.
- November 13 - The first Friday the 13th event held by motorcyclists in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
- November 23 - Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua
- November 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 Thursday, December 17).
- December 1 - A Yugoslavian DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica killing 178
- December 4 - South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
- December 11 - El Mozote massacre - in El Salvador, army units kill 900 civilians
- December 13 - Wojciech Jaruzelski declares the state of martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity
- December 15 - A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 61 people. This is the first modern suicide bombing. Syrian intelligence is blamed.
- December 20 - The Penlee lifeboat disaster off the coast of South-West Cornwall
- December 28 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born (Norfolk, Virginia).
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Year in topic
Births
January-July
- January 1 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian Formula One racing driver
- January 3 - Polly Klaas, young victim of crime (d. 1993)
- January 15 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese football star
- January 21 - Dany Heatley, NHL hockey player
- January 25 - Alicia Keys, musician
- January 28 - Elijah Wood, actor
- January 31 - Justin Timberlake, musician
- February 11 - Kelly Rowland, singer ("Destiny's Child")
- February 18 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian NBA star
- February 22 - Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
- February 24 - Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
- March 11 - David Anders, actor
- March 28 - Julia Stiles, actress
- April 9 - Eric Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High School massacre (d. 1999)
- April 28 - Jessica Alba, actress
- May 13 - Sunny Leone, adult entertainer
- May 15 - Jamie-Lynn DiScala, actress
- June 1 - Carlos Zambrano, baseball pitcher
- June 7 - Anna Kournikova, tennis player
- June 9 - Natalie Portman, actress
- June 15 - Mary Carey, American erotic actress
- July 8 - Anastasia Myskina, tennis player
August-December
- August 5 - Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball All-Star
- August 5 - Rachel Scott, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (d. 1999)
- August 8 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer/songwriter
- August 8 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- August 23 - Eric Radloff
- September 4 - Beyoncé Knowles, singer
- September 9 - Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High School massacre (died 1999)
- September 22 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- September 26 - Serena Williams, tennis player
- October 15 - Elena Dementieva, tennis player
- October 28 - Milan Baros, Czech soccer player
- November 25 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of President George W. Bush
- December 2 - Britney Spears, singer
- December 13 - Amy Lee, Evanescence frontwoman
- December 21 - Shizuka Arakawa, figure skating champion
- December 27 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
Deaths
January-June
- January 3- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany, the last grandchild of Queen Victoria
- January 5 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist
- January 6 - A.J. Cronin, Novelist
- January 10 - Katherine Alexander, actress
- January 23 - Samuel Barber, Composer
- February 1 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer
- February 9 - Bill Haley, Musician
- February 26 - Howard Hanson, composer
- March 9 - Max Delbrück, German biologist
- April 7 - Norman Taurog, director
- April 27 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman, philanthropist
- May 11 - Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
- May 18 - William Saroyan, author
- June 1 - Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (b. 1883)
- June 19 - Lotte Reiniger, German and later British silhouette animator.
- June 28 - Terry Fox, cancer activist
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