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* 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
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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
1981 and 39th
In 1981, on his 39th birthday, Thomas became the 60th member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED ( 29 July 1916 – 23 March 2004 ), generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 39th Premier of Victoria, serving from 1972 to 1981.
Gretzky is also the fastest to 50 goals ; during his record-setting 1981 – 82 season, in which he finished with 92 goals, he scored his 50th goal in the Edmonton Oilers ' 39th game of the season.
Berri also won the Oscar for Best Short Film for Le Poulet at the 39th Academy Awards in 1966, and produced Roman Polanski's Tess which was nominated for Best Picture in 1981.
In 1980 they undertook a two-month tour in Northern Ireland, and moved there under 39th Infantry Brigade in 1981 for a two-year deployment.
The 39th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand which began with the general election held on 25 November 1978, and finished with the general election held on 28 November 1981.
Marie D ' Amico, the daughter of Alderman Anthony Laurino of the 39th ward of Chicago, pleaded guilty to collected tens of thousands of dollars in no-work jobs between 1981 and 1994 from three separate public agencies: the Cook County clerk and sheriff and the City Council's Finance Committee while Burke was chairman.
1981 and game
* 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
He took over the writing of Call of Cthulhu, and the game was released in 1981, using a simplified version of the Basic Role-Playing system used in RuneQuest.
Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.
Craven Cottage held the team's largest ever crowd at any ground with 15, 013, at a game against Wakefield Trinity on 15 February 1981.
In May 1981, Len Barker threw a perfect game against the Toronto Blue Jays, joining Addie Joss as the only other Indian pitcher to do so.
Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.
The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.
During a game at Busch Stadium on August 26, 1981, Garry Templeton made obscene gestures at fans before being pulled off the field by manager Whitey Herzog.
In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled The Peter Principle Game.
In the 1981 playoffs, the Chargers managed to outlast the Miami Dolphins in the divisional round, 41 – 38, in a game that became known as The Epic in Miami.
Highlights that season included back-to-back victories against the 1981 Super Bowl teams San Francisco ( 41 – 37 ) and Cincinnati ( 50 – 34 ) in which Fouts threw for over 400 yards in each game to lead the Chargers to shootout victories.
The December 20th, 1982 Cincinnati game was a rematch of the 1981 AFC Championship Game.
In that tenure, the Giants finished a game over. 500 in the strike-shortened 1981 season.
During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.
One of the guest analysts for the network's studio pregame show was former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden ; he impressed CBS executives so much that he replaced Brookshier as lead game analyst in 1981.
The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the Iran hostage crisis ended.
Super Bowl XVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion San Francisco 49ers and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Cincinnati Bengals to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1981 season.
According to the NFL's highlight film for the game, the 49ers had discovered Wersching's ability to effectively use the squib during their 1981 season opener when a leg injury kept him from fully powering into the football.
* Thief ( arcade game ), a 1981 arcade video game
In the first game of the 1981 playoffs versus the Montreal Canadiens, Gretzky had five assists.
His 50th goal of the season came on December 30, 1981 in the final seconds of a 7 – 5 win against the Philadelphia Flyers and was his fifth of the game.
* Polybius, an urban legend game, is said to have been released in 1981.
* Egg ( video game ), a 1981 Nintendo game
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