* 1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player

The band was formed as Still Life in 1981 in Jamestown, New York, by Dennis Drew ( keyboards ), Steve Gustafson ( bass ), Chet Cardinale ( drums ), Robert Buck ( guitar ), and Teri Newhouse ( vocalist and Buck's ex-wife ).

They performed as 10, 000 Maniacs for the first time on Labor Day, September 7, 1981, with a line-up of Merchant, Lombardo, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, and Tim Edborg on drums.

* Dennis Drew – ( 1981 – present ) Drew has been the keyboard player in the band since.

* 1981, the United States Postal Service issued a 35 ¢ postage stamp in its Great Americans series to honor Drew.

Tournaments he has won or shared first include the 1969 Swedish Chess Championship, Göteborg 1971, Dortmund 1973, Camagüez 1974, Cienfuegos 1975, Belgrade 1977, Buenos Aires 1978, Hastings 1978 – 79, Phillips & Drew 1980, Johannesburg 1981, Phillips & Drew 1982, Turin 1982, Wijk aan Zee 1983, Reggio Emilia 1985, Rome 1985, and Rome 1986.

* Tom Condon graduated from UB Law in 1981, sports agent, represents over 120 NFL players, including Peyton Manning, Matt Ryan, Tony Romo, Matt Leinart, Tim Couch, Marvin Harrison, LaDainian Tomlinson, Tony Gonzalez, Steve Hutchinson, Eli Manning, Drew Brees, Chad Pennington, Alex Smith, Marc Bulger, Chris Simms, Byron Leftwich, Mathias Kiwanuka, Brady Quinn, Jake Long, and Adrian Peterson.

* Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths ( with Carolyn Keene ) ( 1981 )

From 1981 to 1985, Baker served as the regional representative to the United States Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis.

Andrew Melvin " Drew " Gooden ( born September 24, 1981 ) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Lewis returned to the screen in 1981 with Hardly Working, a film he both directed and starred in.

* 1981 – Blake Lewis, American singer-songwriter and producer

* 1893 – Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist ( d. 1981 )

In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis.

Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause came in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.

* Lewis, Andrew W. ( 1981 ).

French and Saunders were featured on the 1981 live comedy album of The Comic Strip recorded by comedy entrepreneur Martin Lewis for his Springtime!

* Alex Lewis ( born 1981 ), football linebacker with the Detroit Lions.

* David Lewis ( 1909 – 1981 ) — Canadian MP and leader of the New Democratic Party

Since I Corps was assigned to Fort Lewis in 1981, soldiers from its units have participated in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War, Operation Provide Comfort for Kurdish Refugees, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

In 1981, I Corps was reactivated at Fort Lewis.

* 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis

Two years later in September 1981 Lewis produced a sequel benefit show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball that featured similar performances by other rock performers including Sting, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof.

In 1981, John Cleese and Martin Lewis invited Connolly to appear in that year's Amnesty show, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

Silverstone has produced many race wins by British drivers, such as Peter Collins ( 1958 ), Jackie Stewart ( 1969, 1971 ), James Hunt ( 1977 ), John Watson ( 1981 ), Nigel Mansell ( 1987, 1991, 1992 ), Damon Hill ( 1994 ), Johnny Herbert ( 1995 ), David Coulthard ( 1999, 2000 ) and Lewis Hamilton ( 2008 ).

Lewis H. Lapham served as managing editor from 1976 until 1981 ; he returned to the position again from 1983 until 2006.

* George Lewis ( footballer ) ( 1913 – 1981 ), Watford and Southampton footballer

The series was edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn from 1981 until 2001, and is currently edited by Randall Auxier.

Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.

* Book: Martin Lewis, Peter Walker, editors, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball ( London: Eyre Methuen, 1981 ) ISBN 0-413-50080-2

He was the father of David Lewis ( 1909 – 1981 ), a leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada.

* June 23-David Lewis, lawyer and politician ( d. 1981 )

Jefferson Lewis, Doubleday and Co., 1981.

Before being elected to Atlanta City Council in 1981, Lewis faced " years of criticism as a holier-than-thou publicity seeker who challenged city leaders on ethical matters ".

* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

* 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia ( OV-102 ) completes its first test flight.

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

The Division Series was implemented in 1981 as a result of a midseason strike, with the first place teams before the strike taking on the teams in first place after the strike.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

The Division Series was implemented in 1981 as a result of a midseason strike with first place teams before the strike taking on the first place teams after.

San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.

The first convincing synthesis was in 1981 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ( Institute for Heavy Ion Research, GSI ) in Darmstadt using the Dubna reaction.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

At the party's first electoral contest, Jenkins narrowly failed to win a by-election at Warrington in July 1981, describing it as his " first defeat, but by far ( his ) greatest victory ".

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

The two companies underwent a name change to Sambi Co., Ltd. in September 1981, while Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was first established on June 11, 1983, for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World when The Bee Gees ' album Living Eyes ( 1981 ) was played.

The first CD to be manufactured at the new factory was The Visitors ( 1981 ) by ABBA.

Censuses during independence have been taken 1947, 1960 ( the first comprehensive demographic investigation ), 1970, 1976 ( a sample census ), 1981, 1994 and 2004 and the next would be taken at 2017.