Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer

* 1981 – Jeff Faine, American football player and agent

* 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer and songwriter ( Gateway Worship )

* 1981 – Alex Suarez, American bassist ( Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League )

* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1981 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer

* 1981 – Grant Holt, English footballer

* 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1981 – Emma Pierson, English actress

* 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer

* 1981 – Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer

* 1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress

* 1981 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver

* 1981 – Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter ( Gym Class Heroes )

* 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater

* 1981 – Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player

* 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player

* 1981 – Claire Dames, American porn actress

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He was named the NFL's Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1984.

Under Walsh the 49ers won Super Bowl championships in 1981, 1984 and 1988.

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

IKEA further expanded in the 1980s, opening stores in France & Spain ( 1981 ), Belgium ( 1984 ), the United States ( 1985 ), the United Kingdom ( 1987 ) and Italy ( 1989 ) among other areas.

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

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His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

She has two younger sisters named Heather ( born 1981 ) and Jennifer ( born 1984 ), who are also actresses.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

IBM introduced a 16-color scheme ( one bit each for RGB and Intensity ) with the Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) for its first IBM PC ( 1981 ), later improved with the Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) in 1984.

The MIPS architecture grew out of a graduate course by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University in 1981, resulted in a functioning system in 1983, and could run simple programs by 1984.

* Works I – CM ( released in 2002, featuring commissioned works from 1981 – 1984 )

The policy is based on a 1981 moratorium which was made law in 1984.

Federal revenue share of GDP fell from 19. 6 % in fiscal 1981 to 17. 3 % in 1984, before rising back to 18. 4 % by fiscal year 1989.

* 1981 – Roland TB-303 The Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured from late 1981 to 1984.

Late that year they were replaced by such successful new shows as the Crawfords Produced Cop Shop ( 1977 – 1984 ) on Channel Seven, which was a meld of soap opera and police drama, and The Restless Years ( 1977 – 1981 ) on Channel Ten, which was another teen soap produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

The BBC adapted novels such as The Day of the Triffids ( 1981 ), The Invisible Man ( 1984 ), The Nightmare Man ( 1981, from the novel Child of the Vodyanoi ) and The Tripods ( 1984 – 85 ), which however remained unfinished.