Historical Events In 1981
Feb 10 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
Feb 23 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
Feb 01 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
Feb 20 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
Feb 10 A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton claims eight lives, and injures nearly 200, at this popular hotel-casino.
Apr 05 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2383 Bradley and #2433 Sootiyo
Apr 20 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
Apr 09 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
Apr 12 First space shuttle (Columbia) launched Americans prove to Russians that theirs is better because it's recyclable
Apr 30 John Lauchlan & James Blench; both natives of Seebe, Alberta, reach summit of 7,454.5m Mt. Gangapurna in the Himalayas by a new south face route.
Apr 11 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
Apr 22 Brailsford Reese Brazeal (76) dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
Apr 02 A Gilmore &P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3400
Apr 16 Columbia space shuttle returns [04/24]
Apr 27 The first female soccer official is hired by the NASL
Apr 26 Jim Davis actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
Apr 03 Race riots in London's Brixton area
Apr 09 Scott Gwartz was born
Apr 10 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
Apr 13 Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
Apr 10 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliment
Apr 03 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg
Apr 04 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
Apr 09 Gen Omar Bradley last 5-star general, dies in NY at 88
Apr 07 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
Apr 05 The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev goes to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis
Apr 08 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3480 Abante
Apr 10 "Caveman" with Ringo premiers
Apr 05 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
Apr 24 IBM-PC introduced
Apr 24 IBM-PC introduced
Apr 01 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3480 Abante
Apr 25 Dixie a mouse who lived 6« years
Apr 29 Phillie Steve Carlton strikes out his 3,000th batter
Apr 04 Brad Johnson actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
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