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

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

* 1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F. C.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

In May 1981, the U. S. government closed the Libyan " people's bureau " ( embassy ) in Washington, D. C. and expelled the Libyan staff in response their conduct generally violating internationally accepted standards of diplomatic behavior.

* 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D. C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

On June 3, 1981, Thomas launched the longest running peace vigil in US history at Lafayette Square in Washington, D. C ..

was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph " Run " Simmons, Darryl " D. M. C.

John C. Gonsiorek criticized their study on several grounds in 1981, pointing out that while Masters and Johnson stated that their patients were screened for major psychopathology or severe neurosis, they did not explain how this screening was performed, or how the motivation of the patients to change was assessed.

* 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D. C.

* Stacey, C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict: Volume 2: 1921 – 1948 ; the Mackenzie King Era, University of Toronto Press 1981, ISBN 0-08-202397-5.

* April 29 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1981 )

Kranzberg served as president of the society from 1983 to 1984, and edited the society's journal from 1959 to 1981, when he turned it over to Robert C. Post of the Smithsonian Institution.

" Governor David C. Treen signed the bill into law in 1981.

In March 2007 Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C / F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from the 1981 Tom Jones series.

The lowest recorded temperature is − 38. 0 ° C recorded in February 1981, and the highest temperature was 17. 8 ° C recorded in August 1942.

Gosling Emacs ( often shortened to " Gosmacs " or " gmacs ") was an Emacs implementation written in 1981 by James Gosling in C. Its extension language, Mocklisp, has a syntax that appears similar to Lisp, but Mocklisp does not have lists or any other structured datatypes.

He also played well-known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo ( 1970 ); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days ( 1974 ) and again in Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ); W. C. Fields in W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries

Austin Pendleton directed a production that ran at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale for three weeks and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. for six weeks before opening on Broadway, after eight previews, on May 7, 1981 at the Martin Beck Theatre.

The New York City hardcore scene emerged in 1981 when Bad Brains moved to the city from Washington, D. C.

* An EBS Test from WPGC in Washington D. C., c. 1981 Windows Media Player is required to hear this file.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.