Historical Events In 1981

May 15 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK

May 25 Al Unser becomes first Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified

May 11 Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks

May 21 Stanley Cup New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1

May 02 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes

May 21 François Mitterrand becomes President of France

May 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 01 Ottawa imposes special tax of $1.15 per barrel to pay for Petro-Canada's purchase of Petrofina, and are Albertans happy NOT

May 16 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson

May 10 François Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France

May 26 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth

May 22 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth

May 11 Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical "Cats" premieres in London

May 01 Harrison Williams (Senator-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges

May 30 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers

May 14 NASA launches space vehicle S-192

May 21 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA

May 13 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square

May 27 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France

May 13 Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded

May 14 The Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.

May 24 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indianapolis 500

May 21 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1

May 30 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)

May 23 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage

May 25 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours

May 01 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3

May 23 NASA launches Intelsat V

May 13 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II

May 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

May 16 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks

May 06 US expels Libyan diplomats

May 15 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6

May 01 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett

May 24 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain

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