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

* The Rolling Stones: organ on " Time Is on My Side " ( 1964 ), " You Can Make It If You Try " ( 1964 ), " Empty Heart " ( 1964 ), " If You Need Me " ( 1964 ), " Stupid Girl " ( 1966 ), and " It's Not Easy " ( 1966 ); piano on " Stoned " ( 1963 ), " Around and Around " ( 1964 ), " Confessin ' the Blues " ( 1964 ), " Down the Road Apiece " ( 1965 ), " That's How Strong My Love Is " ( 1965 ), " Flight 505 " ( 1966 ), " Connection " ( 1967 ), " My Obsession " ( 1967 ), " Honky Tonk Women " ( 1969 ), " Let It Bleed " ( 1969 ), " Little Queenie " ( live ) ( 1970 ), " Brown Sugar " ( 1971 ), " Dead Flowers " ( 1971 ), " Sweet Virginia " ( 1972 ), " Silver Train " ( 1973 ), " Star Star " ( 1973 ), " It's Only Rock ' n Roll ( But I Like It )" ( 1974 ), " Short and Curlies " ( 1974 ), " Summer Romance " ( 1980 ), " Black Limousine " ( 1981 ), and " Twenty Flight Rock " ( live ) ( 1982 ).

Their 1982 live album " Still Life " ( American Concert 1981 ), included three songs taken from the Largo concerts, " Let Me Go " ( December 8 ), " Twenty Flight Rock " and " Going to a Go-Go " ( December 9 ).

Oliver Robert Ocasek ( November 2, 1925 – June 25, 1999 ) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as President of the Ohio State Senate from 1979 – 1981 and serving as Senator from Summit County and the Twenty Seventh District from 1959 until 1986.

* Twenty Tens ( 1981 )

His other works include The War in Northern Burma ( 1946 ), 1587, a Year of No Significance ( 1981 ) ( also published in Chinese as The Fifteenth Year of Wan Li /《 萬曆十五年 》, 1985 ), Broadening the Chinese Field of Vision ( in Chinese, 1988 ), Chinese Macrohistory ( 1988 ) ( in Chinese 1993 ), Conversations about Chinese History on the Banks of the Hudson River ( in Chinese 1989 ), Discussions of Here and There and Old and New ( in Chinese 1991 ), Capitalism and the Twenty First Century ( in Chinese 1991 ), From a Macrohistory Perspective in Reading Jiang Jieshi's Diary ( in Chinese 1993 ), Contemporary Chinese Outlets ( in Chinese 1994 ), The Affair of Wan Chong ( in Chinese 1998 ), Yellow River Qing Mountain: Record of Huang Renzi's Recollections ( in Chinese 2001 ), and Bianjing Unfinished Dreams.

* 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

Except for pre-emption for news coverage, notably the three-day continuous coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a few shows that were 45 minutes, the show aired a full 60 minutes on weekday mornings until 1981.

But in the fall of 1981, to make more room for the expansion of CBS Morning News, the Captain was moved to an earlier time slot of 7 a. m. and cut to 30 minutes, sporting the new title Wake Up with the Captain.

Omar Bradley died on April 8, 1981 in New York City of a cardiac arrhythmia, just a few minutes after receiving an award from the National Institute of Social Sciences.

So on September 28, 1981, Morning dropped the days of the week from its title ( except for Sunday Morning ), and was extended to 90 minutes and added Diane Sawyer as co-host ; in the process, Captain Kangaroo was reduced to a half-hour daily and pushed to an earlier time period ( 7: 00 a. m .).

* BBC Radio 4 archive 4 October 1981 ( Audio, 12 minutes ).

* Guccione eventually authorized an R-rated cut, released in 1981, 105 minutes long, which earned the film a wider distribution.

* In 1999, the Film4 channel, frustrated by the lack of any extended version of the film available in the UK ( only the low quality 1981 censored version was still in print ), released their own cut of Caligula, running approximately 143 minutes ( the missing 13 minutes can be mostly attributed to the PAL overspeeding and time compression ).

As reported by Freddie Mercury in Melody Maker, 2 May 1981, he composed " Crazy Little Thing Called Love " on the guitar in just five to ten minutes.

In a sample taken of students between the ages of 6 and 9, it was shown that students spend more than two hours a week on homework, as opposed to 44 minutes in 1981.

* 1981: 25 August: Swiss guide Ueli Bühler soloes the face in 8 hours and 30 minutes.

In April 2004, Marsden set the fifth fastest time for MPs completing the London Marathon out of forty two that have taken part since it began in 1981, with a time of 3 hours 18 minutes 1 second.

In 1981, Bumpus issued his first solo LP, A Clear View, which featured his singing, writing and sax playing, stretching out with the band on several, long, jazzy jams over 6 minutes each.

When he was called up from the AHL's Chicago Wolves to play for the Thrashers during the 2009 – 10 NHL season, Chelios was the oldest active player in the NHL-and the second oldest of all time-had played the most games of any active player in the NHL, was the last player from the 1981 NHL Entry Draft still active ( or any draft from 1986 and earlier ), and had the most career penalty minutes of any active player.

When Nelson Piquet clinched his first World Championship by finishing fifth in 1981, it took him fifteen minutes to recover from heat exhaustion.

When Nelson Piquet clinched his first World Championship by finishing fifth in 1981, it took him fifteen minutes to recover from heat exhaustion after barely making it to the finish.

With the Sharks leading 4 – 2 in the third period, he recorded a hat trick with two goals on the power play and one into an empty net in a span of two minutes and one second, breaking the previous team record set by Gretzky on February 18, 1981, by seventeen seconds.

Mike was made a fan guest of honor for the first time at the 1981 DeepSouthCon in Atlanta, partly because the con committee thought his LASFS minutes were so amusing that they had to be made up.

A notably clean player — he recorded 120 penalty minutes in a 14-season career — he won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1981, during which he scored a career best 55 goals.

Drivers Guy Light and Jim Brandt finished the 1981 Northern Lights rally just three minutes behind first place in the Production Class " in spite of nailing a tree dead center with their brand new AMC Eagle SX / 4.

In September 2006, the Pendolino set a new speed record, completing the length of the West Coast Main Line from Glasgow to London in 3 hours, 55 minutes, beating the 4 hours 14 minute record for the southbound run previously set in 1981 by its ancestor, British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train.

The fastest recorded time up the tower's 952 steps is 5 minutes 18 seconds on January 29, 1981.