Historical Events In 1981

Jan 18 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets

Jan 10 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"

Jan 15 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

Jan 01 International Year for the Disabled begins

Jan 15 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

Jan 16 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in the Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Björn Borg

Jan 04 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

Jan 04 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 578 performances

Jan 01 Greece becomes the tenth member of the Europen Economic Community

Jan 09 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal

Jan 25 The 52 American hostages held by Iran for 444 days arrive back in the U.S.

Jan 31 Gaetan Boucher 1958- skates the 1000m in a world record time of 1:13.39; native of Charlesbourg, Quebec will go on to win gold in the 1000m and 1500m, and a bronze in the 500m at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics

Jan 05 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes

Jan 05 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

Jan 31 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1

Jan 13 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes

Jan 21 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for first time on a New York subway train

Jan 24 Kim Hughes scores 213 vs India at Adelaide

Jan 06 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals

Jan 16 Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband

Jan 02 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)

Jan 01 International Year for the Disabled begins

Jan 01 Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

Jan 05 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

Jan 04 "Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway

Jan 18 Iran agrees in principle to the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.

Jan 01 Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

Jan 31 38th Golden Globes Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter

Jan 19 Iran agrees in principle to the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.

Jan 12 "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins, premieres on ABC-TV

Jan 02 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)

Jan 05 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes

Jan 25 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death

Jan 29 Cozy Cole rocker (Topsy Part II), dies

Jan 26 Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval

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