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* 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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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
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* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )
East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.
In 1981, Hassan Gouled Aptidon was elected as President of Djibouti.
From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers.
In 1981, after the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, Washington removed its objection to the sale.
The fourth president was Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat.
He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.
PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).
When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects.
* 1981 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
* 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh ( d. 1981 )
* 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U. S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
Doe quickly established good relations with the United States, especially after U. S. President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.
In October 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
* 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
He served as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board during 1981.
* 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D. C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
Nancy Davis Reagan ( born Anne Frances Robbins ; July 6, 1921 ) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.
First Lady Nancy Reagan and President Reagan during the inaugural parade, 1981
The last member appointed to the court who was not a former student at one of those two institutions was Sandra Day O ' Connor, appointed by the newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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