* 1981 – Adam Wainwright, American baseball player

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

* 1981 – 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.

In January 2007, evidence surfaced potentially linking Dahmer to Adam Walsh's 1981 abduction and murder in Florida.

* 1981 – Adam LaVorgna, American actor

* 1981 – Adam Green, American singer-songwriter, musician, and filmmaker ( The Moldy Peaches )

* 1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player

It is best known for having been an early label of Adam and the Ants, releasing their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox in November 1979 ( which in January 1980 was the first ever Number One on the UK Independent Albums Chart and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album ) as well as singles Zerox in June 1979 and Cartrouble in March 1980, the latter being not only a Number One on the UK Independent Singles Chart but also the debut collaboration between Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni following the departure of the original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow.

A number of longtime characters were written out during this time, including Ben and Eve McFarren, Diane Ballard, Sara McIntyre, Adam Thorpe, Barbara Norris Thorpe, Justin Marler and Steve Jackson ; actress Lenore Kasdorf left the show in 1981, and producers decided not to recast the role of Rita Stapleton Bauer, given how popular Kasdorf had been ; and Bauer family matriarch Bertha " Bert " Bauer died, after Charita Bauer's death in 1985.

* 1981 – 1982-The killing of 7-year-old Adam Walsh ( 1981 ), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa ( 1982 ), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States.

Kapuściński claimed, in response to a question posed by Adam Michnik, that his attitude to Communism changed early on, " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka, and the Hungarian Uprising ), although he remained a loyal member of the Party until December 1981 and never spoke out against it afterwards, including during the period of the Third Republic following the Party's self-dissolution in January 1990.

Walsh had gained publicity after his six-year-old son, Adam Walsh, was kidnapped and murdered in 1981.

Adam John Walsh ( November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981 ) was an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981, and later found murdered and decapitated.

On July 27, 1981, Walsh's mother, Revé, let Adam watch several older boys play video games at a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, while she walked a few aisles away to shop for a lamp.

Walsh is known for his anti-crime activism, which he became involved with following the murder of his son, Adam, in 1981 ; in 2008, the late serial killer Ottis Toole was named as the killer of Walsh's son.

On July 27, 1981, Adam was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall, across from the Hollywood Police station.

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Adam and the Ants had a number one song for five weeks in 1981 in the UK with " Stand and Deliver.

A British hip hop scene emerged in the early 1980s, largely based on American hip hop music at parties and club nights, In this period some pop records dabbled with rap – such as Adam and the Ants ' " Ant Rap " ( 1981 ) LP, Wham's " Wham Rap ( Enjoy What You Do )" ( 1982 ) and Malcolm McLaren's " Buffalo Gals " ( 1982 ).

She has two brothers: Noah ( born May 1979 ), and Adam ( born August 1981 ), and graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1998 with a degree in theater.

The notation was invented by Paul Klimek in Santa Cruz, California in 1981, and later developed by Bruce " Boppo " Tiemann and Bengt Magnusson at the California Institute of Technology in 1985, and by Mike Day, Colin Wright, and Adam Chalcraft in Cambridge, England in 1985 ( whence comes the alternative name ).

Ellis has written several films, notably The Nostradamus Kid ( 1992 ), Cactus ( 1986 ) ( with Paul Cox ), My First Wife ( 1984 ) ( with Paul Cox ), Where the Green Ants Dream ( Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen ) ( 1984 ) film ( with German film director Werner Herzog, Man of Flowers ( 1983 ) ( with Paul Cox ), Goodbye Paradise ( 1983 ), ... Maybe This Time ( with Anne Brooksbank ) ( 1981 ), Fatty Finn ( 1980 ), and Newsfront ( 1978 ).

The album Thirst, released on Fetish Records, followed in 1981 to a favourable critical reaction, knocking Adam and the Ants ' Dirk Wears White Sox from the top of the NME Indie Charts, by which time the band had combined musique concrète techniques with standard rock instrumentation.

There were earlier pop records which dabbled with rap-such as Adam and the Ants ' " Ant Rap " from the 1981 album Prince Charming and Wham's " Wham Rap ( Enjoy What You Do )" ( Inner Vision, 1982 )-but these are often considered pop appropriations of US rap.

" Prince Charming " is the title of a 1981 album and song by Adam and the Ants.

In 1981, Donohoe appeared in the music videos for the songs " Antmusic " and " Stand & Deliver " by Adam and the Ants.

Oasis smashed the record for most weeks in the singles chart ( previously held by Adam and the Ants in 1981 ) with 134 weeks, thanks to mass waves of re-entries of songs from their back catalogue throughout the year.

Tobias Schenke ( 27 March 1981 ) is a German actor most famous for playing the character of Florian Thomas in Ants in My Pants and More Ants in the Pants and the older Jürgen Bartsch in The Child I Never Was.

The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

He made his Broadway debut in 1981 as " Lennox ", in Macbeth taking the lead role when Philip Anglim withdrew after receiving negative reviews.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

The double-digit lead which had still been intact in opinion polls at the start of 1981 was swiftly wiped out, and by the end of October the opinion polls were showing the Alliance ahead of Labour.

* 1981 – Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist ( Hinder )

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.

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.

* Susanna Hoffs – lead, backing and harmony vocals, rhythm guitar ( 1981 – 1989, 1999 – present )

* Debbi Peterson – lead, backing and harmony vocals, drums, tambourine, acoustic guitar, percussion ( 1981 – 1989, 1999 – present )

* Vicki Peterson – lead, backing and harmony vocals, lead guitar ( 1981 – 1989, 1999 – present )

In 1981 Rankine and MacKenzie also released a version of " Kites " under the name " 39 Lyon Street " with Christine Beverage on lead vocals, the b-side track " A Girl Named Property " was credited to The Associates.

Sadat's actions would lead to his assassination in 1981.

In 1981 Giovanni Spadolini of the PRI was the first non-Christian Democrat to lead a government since 1944, at the head of a coalition comprising the DC, the PSI, the PSDI, the PRI and the PLI, the so-called Pentapartito.

* John Connelly – lead vocals ( 1981 )

* Dirk Kennedy – lead vocals ( 1981 )

* Jason Rosenfeld – lead vocals ( 1981 – 1982 )

* Greg Walls – lead guitars ( 1981 – 1983 )

* Danny Lilker – lead guitars, backing vocals ( 1981 ); bass guitar, backing vocals ( 1981 – 1984 )

In 1981, Moore appeared as the lead in the comedy Arthur, an even bigger hit than 10, which also starred Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud.

The band released four albums between 1981 and 1990, with Prince writing and performing most of the instrumentation and backing vocals, with lead vocals by Morris Day.

* 1981 — Viacheslav Mukhanov and G. Chibisov propose that quantum fluctuations could lead to large scale structure in an inflationary universe