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

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

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.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

Taco Bell has been present in Canada since 1981, with the first store opening in Windsor, Ontario.

Included with cassette copies of Faith was an instrumental soundtrack for Carnage Visors, an animated film shown in place of an opening act for the band's 1981 Picture Tour.

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.

It can be seen in the opening scene of The Golden Compass, Brideshead Revisited ( 1981 TV serial ), Another Country ( 1984 ), The Madness of King George III ( 1994 ), and the first two Harry Potter films, in which the Divinity School doubles as the Hogwarts hospital wing and Duke Humfrey's Library as the Hogwarts library.

Valenzuela in 1981 was named the opening day starter as a rookie after Jerry Reuss was injured 24 hours before his scheduled start and Burt Hooton was not ready to fill in.

After the Rock Steady Crew and Afrika Bambaataa were booked as the opening act for Bow Wow Wow at The Ritz nightclub in September 1981, Ruza Blue decided to book them at Negril and begin a night called " Wheels of Steel ".

The opening of a large Intel Corporation plant in 1981 had a major economic impact on the city.

The bridge held the record for the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 16 years from its opening in July 1981, until the opening of the Great Belt Bridge in June 1997, and was relegated to third place with the opening of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in April 1998.

The first organized paintball game in record was held by Charles Gaines, Bob Gurnsey and friends in New Hampshire in 1981, with the first paintball field opening approximately a year later in Sutton, NH ( opened by founder Bob Gurnsey ) In 1983 the first National Survival Game ( NSG ) national championship was held, with a $ 14, 000 cash award for the winning team.

United Artists opening and closing logo, 1971 – 1981.

He later covered the opening sessions of the European Parliament and became a Political Correspondent in 1981.

" Wheels Ain't Coming Down ", which originally appeared as the opening track on the album Return to Base ...., was released in March 1981 and reached number 60 in the UK.

A very successful director of musicals, in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn directed the musical Cats ( 1981 ), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's history, and the first English production of Les Misérables in 1985, also with John Caird, which has been running continuously in London since opening.

* 7 August 1980 to 2 July 1981: No opening theme tune: The CCS version of " Whole Lotta Love " was played over some of the images of the featured artists and during the countdown stills in the Top 30 and Top 20 sections which were moved later on in the programme.

In 1978, construction of the current Landside Terminal and Airsides 1 and 3 began, opening in 1981.

The mall has been expanded three times since its opening in 1981, with these additions completed in 1983 ( Phase II ), 1985 ( Phase III ) and 1999 ( Phase IV ).

The opening of the Humber Bridge on 24 June 1981 provided a permanent link between North and South Humberside but did not secure Humberside's future.

Silva and Mabry had a brief reunion in 1981 as the New Wave Brides, opening for Grace Jones, and a lengthy tour with Was ( Not Was ).