Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( the 1981 winner ) as " the best novel out of all the winners.

In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.

Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.

* 1981 – David Aardsma, American baseball player

* St. Helens ( 1981 ) as David Jackson

With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).

Likewise, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's most influential financial official in 1981 was an acknowledged follower of Hayek.

* 1981 – David Bernard, Jamaican cricketer

* 1981 – Craig David, English singer-songwriter

* 1981 – David Anders, American actor

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

* 1980 – 1981: " Catch That Pepsi Spirit " ( David Lucas, composer )

The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime ", which was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

* 1981 – A coup d ' état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

The magnitude of Vega was measured again in 1981 at the David Dunlap Observatory and showed some slight variability.

In 1980, Tharp's work first appeared on Broadway with Twyla Tharp Dance performing When We Were Very Young, followed in 1981 by The Catherine Wheel, her collaboration with David Byrne at the Winter Garden.

In 1981, he released a 45 rpm single, his first solo record (" I'm Not Your Steppin ' Stone " b / w " Higher And Higher ") and did some club performances and live television appearances, including taking part in a " Win A Date With Peter Tork " bit on Late Night with David Letterman.

He was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 but was revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley.

" Governor David C. Treen signed the bill into law in 1981.

Interleaf was founded by David Boucher and Harry George in 1981.

* An Evening at the Moulin Rouge ( 1981 ), Réalisé par David Niles, produced by HBO ( length: 60 min )

The first musical use of the algorithm was in the work May All Your Children Be Acrobats written in 1981 by David A. Jaffe, and scored for eight guitars, mezzo-soprano and computer-generated stereo tape, with a text based on Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

In 1981, Seymour married David Flynn.

James were formed in 1981 by Paul Gilbertson and Jim Glennie ( after whom the band was named ), recruiting Drama student Tim Booth on vocals and Gavan Whelan on drums ( Gilbertson and Whelan were to leave the band before it attained commercial success ).

Junius Brutus Booth was inducted, posthumously, into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.

For the 1981 spring show, Triangle writers returned to the very roots of the club and based their book musical, Bold Type, on Booth Tarkington's novel, A Gentleman from Indiana.

Larson graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1980 and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in 1981.

Whilst a student at Manchester University studying drama, Booth encountered Jim Glennie, Paul Gilbertson and Gavan Whelan in 1981 in the cellar bar of the university's students ' union.

His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Vizzini in The Princess Bride ( 1987 ), and Rex the toy dinosaur in the Toy Story animated film series.

** Ken Rex McElroy, American murder victim ( d. 1981 )

Bananarama's only previous experience in a recording studio at the time was as background vocalists on the Department S b-side, " Solid Gold Easy Action ," a T. Rex cover in early 1981.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

* Rex E. Lee, A Lawyer Looks at the Constitution ; Brigham Young University Press ; ISBN 0-8425-1904-1 ( Softcover, September 1981 )

* T. Rex In Concert ( 1981 )

Celebrity Rex Hunt played for Sandringham in 1980 and 1981.

The second generation Rex ( 1981 – 1986 ) also formed the basis for the larger Subaru Justy.

Mike Lee and Thomas R. Lee, though not Udalls, are second cousins to Mark and Tom Udall and Gordon Smith ; their father, Rex E. Lee, a well-known scholar of Constitutional Law and Solicitor General from 1981 to 1985, was a first cousin of Stewart and Morris Udall ; Mike Lee serves as a United States Senator from Utah ( since 2011 ), and Thomas R. Lee is an Associate Justice on the Utah Supreme Court.

From 1981 to 1985 Alito was Assistant to Solicitor General Rex E. Lee.

Several decades after his last appearance, Detective Chimp appeared in several cameos, namely in a 1981 story, " Whatever Happened to Rex the Wonder Dog " ( DC Comics Presents # 35 ) and later in a brief cameo with Sam Simeon in Gorilla City during 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Subsequently the song has reached the U. S. Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton, who peaked at # 6 in 1974, with more moderate success for remakes by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (# 32 / 1981 ) and Gloria Estefan (# 27 / 1995 ).

In 1981, a duet version with Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet hit # 35.

He was most known for his time in the WWF as Moondog King where he teamed with Moondog Rex and won the WWF Tag Team Championship ( then WWWF ) from Tony Garea and Rick Martel in Allentown, Pennsylvania in March 1981.