Historical Events In 1981
Mar 05 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
Mar 26 The British Social Democratic Party is founded by the 'Gang of Four'
Mar 01 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances
Mar 06 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Mar 20 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years
Mar 02 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
Mar 28 France performs nuclear test
Mar 06 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
Mar 15 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
Mar 26 Police &Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
Mar 09 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
Mar 27 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
Mar 17 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
Mar 01 IRA member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. (Sands died 65 days later.)
Mar 31 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek win
Mar 20 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor
Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 24 Bombay beat Delhi by innings &46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
Mar 30 US President Ronald Reagan wounded in an assassination attempt
Mar 01 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)
Mar 05 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
Mar 01 Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's National Energy Policy the federal government replies by a compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a "Lougheed Levy" to subsidize imports
Mar 24 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
Mar 13 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
Mar 08 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
Mar 07 The first homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
Mar 28 Viv Richards scores century in the first Test at his home Antigua
Mar 24 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
Mar 01 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
Mar 19 Emmy 8th Daytime Awards: Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
Mar 30 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
Mar 06 CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite gives his last newscast.
Mar 10 In the North West Territories Panarctic Oils Ltd. finds oil in offshore exploratory well in the eastern Arctic
Mar 12 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Mar 22 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
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