The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

He directed his final film, Rich and Famous ( 1981 ) with Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen, at the age of eighty-two.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

When Lee made one final appeal to audition, Neil accepted and was hired April 1, 1981.

The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.

The French attempt to gain economic control over the Saar was more successful at the time, with the final vestiges of French economic influence ending in 1981.

Curry's third and final album, Simplicity, was released in 1981, again by A & M Records.

His 50th goal of the season came on December 30, 1981 in the final seconds of a 7 – 5 win against the Philadelphia Flyers and was his fifth of the game.

In years when a new president is inaugurated, the outgoing president may deliver a final State of the Union message, but none has done so since Jimmy Carter sent a written message in 1981.

Fonda won an Academy Award for his work with Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond ( 1981 film ) | On Golden PondOn Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda.

Fonda's final performance was in the 1981 television drama Summer Solstice with Myrna Loy.

By April 1981, a revised script was completed that moved the character's death to the movie's final act.

He hosted the 1981 American Film Institute tribute to Fred Astaire, which was his final appearance in Hollywood.

His final film role was the 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story.

The final episode Blake was broadcast on 21 December 1981.

This put the Detroit Pistons second on the all-time list of most consecutive conference final appearances, only behind the Los Angeles Lakers who appeared in 8 straight conference finals from the 1981 – 82 to 1988 – 89 seasons.

Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).

They have been in the state tournament, which includes the final four from each class a record 19 times since 1981.

The Bulldogs advanced to the final eight teams in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1993, and 2001.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

The final first-run Tomorrow episode aired on December 17, 1981.

This line was closed for passenger traffic during the early 1950s with final closure occurred by British Rail in 1981.

In September 1981, Hull attempted one final comeback with the New York Rangers at age 42.

The final official Funkadelic album, The Electric Spanking of War Babies, was released in 1981.

* 1999 – Cassie Bernall, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

* 1999 – Eric Harris, American student who committed the Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

* 1999 – Dylan Klebold, American student who committed the Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

* 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre and inspiration for Rachel's Challenge ( b. 1981 )

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

By virtue of practice directions issued under section 75 ( 1 ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, an indictment must be tried by a High Court judge, a Circuit judge or a recorder ( which of these it is depends on the offence ).

High levels of regulation and a dependence on declining oil prices, growth slowed to an average of 4. 3 % per annum between 1981 and 1988.

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1981 – Claudette Ortiz, American singer and model ( City High )

* 1981 – DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, songwriter ( Epik High )

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

* 1981 – Dylan Klebold, American student and murderer, conducted the Columbine High School massacre ( d. 1999 )

Maine North High School was closed in 1981 before John Hughes stepped in and used it as a filming location.

Burnett graduated from Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1981, after leading the school's football team to the state semi-finals as their starting quarterback.

** Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, American students who committed the Columbine High School massacre ( both born 1981 )

** Rachel Scott, first victim of Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

** Cassie Bernall, victim of Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

Broadcast 20 September to 4 October 1981, it was dramatised by Barry Campbell starring Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway and Alan Wheatley as the High Lama, and re-broadcast 8 September to 10 September 2010 on BBC Radio 7, and again in March 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

The current statute dealing with the Admiralty jurisdiction of the England and Wales High Court is the Supreme Court Act 1981, ss.

* Jeff Davis, ( American football ) ( born 1960 ), former NFL football player ( Tampa Bay Buccaneers ), member of Clemson's 1981 national championship team, attended Dudley High School.

** Excelsior High School ( Norwalk, California ) ( 1903 – 1981 )

The Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Court of Appeal comprise 38 ordinary sitting Lords Justices and the Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, President of the Queen's Bench Division, President of the Family Division, and Chancellor of the High Court.

* Hero High ( 1981 NBC )

* Aviation author and historian Michael B. McComb attended Kingman High School ( 1981 – 1985 ) in Kingman.

Oak Park High School opened for classes ( initially grades 6-12 ) in the spring of 1981.