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

Ronald Reagan, who had assumed the American presidency in January 1981, accused the Sandinistas of importing Cuban-style socialism and aiding leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.

* 1981 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer

Upon assuming office in 1981, U. S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador.

The next album, El Loco, was released in October 1981, featuring three singles (" Tube Snake Boogie ", " Pearl Necklace ", and " Leila ").

* El Loco ( 1981 )

The initially poorly trained Salvadoran Armed Forces ( ESAF ) also engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings, the most notorious of which was the El Mozote massacre in December 1981.

* 1981: El derecho de nacer as María Elena

* Ostia appears briefly towards the end of the Roman Empire section of the 1981 comedy film History of the World, Part I, where the main characters board a galleon ( bearing the El Al logo ) bound for Judaea.

Also in the category of Spanish pop art is the " Chronicle Team " ( El Equipo Crónica ), which existed in Valencia between 1964 and 1981, formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and Rafael Solbes.

) ( 1974 ), Jamás ( Never ) ( 1975 ), El Amor de mi Vida ( The Love of my Life ) ( 1978 ), Perdóname ( Forgive me ) ( 1981 ), the latter being his most successful hit and other as Donde estés, con quien estés, Amor de mujer ( 1984 ) and the classic " Amor Mío, ¿ Qué Me Has Hecho?

The War Powers Resolution was disregarded by President Reagan in 1981 by sending military to El Salvador, by President Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo, and by President Obama in 2011, when he did not seek congressional approval for the attack on Libyan forces, arguing that the Resolution did not apply to that action.

Other of her films are El Ministro y yo ( 1975 ), with Cantinflas, Más negro que la noche ( 1976 ), La Ilegal ( 1979 ), Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios ( 1981 ), and El Maleficio ( 1985 ).

In 1981 Kale's new lineup put out Now & Not Then on the El Macombo label.

Examples of this argument being used often include the 1981 April Fool's Day Coup in Thailand and the El Tejerazo coup in Spain when King Bhumibol and King Juan Carlos I respectively stepped in to restore democracy in their countries.

In 1981 he went to Honduras to train Contras who were fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government, which was supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union ; the Army of El Salvador ; and the Honduras death squads.

El Loco is the seventh studio album by American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981 ( see 1981 in music ).

The arrival of the Morales family was a part of a much wider migration to the region, with many Bolivians hoping to set up farms where they could earn a living growing coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, and was experiencing a steady rise in price and which could be cultivated up to four times a year ; in 1981 El Chapare's population was 40, 000 but by 1988 it had risen to 215, 000.

* El Mar Y Tu Ediciones Huracan, 1981 ; ISBN 0-940238-46-2

* El central ( 1981 ), ISBN 978-0-380-86934-3

*" Leila " ( song ), 1981 song by American rock band ZZ Top, from their album El Loco

Bonner is best known as one of two journalists ( the other was Alma Guillermoprieto of The Washington Post ) who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army in December 1981.