In a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981, diet was estimated to cause perhaps around 35 % of cancers.

* 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.

Human diet was estimated to cause perhaps around 35 % of cancers in a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981.

* 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Richard Boone, American actor ( b. 1917 )

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.

* 25 Years of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, Richard Findlater ( ed ) Amber Lane Press 1981.

* James, Richard S. ( 1981 ).

* 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U. S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.

* Richard III by Charles Ross ( Methuen, 1981 ) ( ISBN 0-413 -...)

Slartibartfast was first portrayed in the 1978 radio serial, in which he was voiced by Richard Vernon, who also portrayed him in the 1981 live-action miniseries.

* August 21 – Sir Richard O ' Connor, British general in World War II ( d. 1981 )

* Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington and Lawrence Durrell Correspondence ( 1981 )

Referred to as the second of the two " Reagan tax cuts " ( the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981 being the first ), the bill was also officially sponsored by Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and Bill Bradley of New Jersey in the Senate.

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

* Simon ( 1984 ) and Richard Mantell ( 1981 ), brothers and field hockey players for England, were both born in Bridgwater.

* Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, ( 1981 ).

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Richard II ( 1978 ), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in Miss Morrison's Ghosts ( 1981 ) and the BBC dramatizations of Julian Gloag's Only Yesterday ( 1986 ) and the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent ( 1986 ), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane.

* Ross, Charles, Richard III, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA ( 1981 ) ISBN 0-520-05075-4

The choir has also performed at the inaugurations of United States Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1965 ), Richard M. Nixon ( 1969 ), Ronald Reagan ( 1981 ), George Bush ( 1989 ) and George W. Bush ( 2001 ).

Subsequent mayors have included Marvin Hoeflinger ( 1979 – 1981 ), Gerald DeRuiter ( 1981 – 1992 ), Bill Hardiman ( 1992 – 2002 ), Richard Root ( 2002 – 2012 ), and Richard Clanton ( 2012-present ).

Claremont had already created a character named " Maddy Pryor ", a little girl that appeared very briefly in Avengers Annual # 10 ( 1981 ).

* Richard Pryor performed two dates in December 1981 and was filmed for the theatrical release Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip in March 1982.

He then went to Hollywood and in 1981 landed a role in the movie Stir Crazy, directed by Sidney Poitier starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

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Bustin ' Loose is a film released by Universal Pictures in 1981 starring Richard Pryor as an ex-con who gets a second chance after violating his probation.

This came to a head at a meeting sponsored by the IAU in Oxford in 1981.

It came into force in March 1981.

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

Shane MacGowan came into his own as a songwriter with this disc, offering up poetic story-telling, such as " The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn " and " The Old Main Drag ", as well as definitive interpretations of Ewan MacColl's " Dirty Old Town " and Eric Bogle's " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( this had previously been covered by Shane's fellow punk contemporaries The Skids in 1981 ).

After excellent seasons between 1977 – 79, the Rangers came very close to clinching a playoff spot in the first half of 1981.

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.

From Xerox came the Alto ( 1973 ) and the Star ( 1981 ).

From Apollo Computer came Display Manager ( 1981 ).

The modern conception of Asperger syndrome came into existence in 1981 and went through a period of popularization, becoming standardized as a diagnosis in the early 1990s.

This eventually came to the attention of the United States government, who unilaterally revoked the Treaty in 1981.

Simultaneously 15 years of war effort also came to an end ; many Portuguese returned from the colonies ( the retornados ) and came to comprise a sizeable number of the population: approximately 580, 000 of Portugal's 9, 8 million citizens in 1981.

The official proclamation of the new CPC stand came in June 1981, when the Sixth Plenum of the Eleventh National Party Congress Central Committee took place.

After working as a petrol pump attendant, gardener and forestry worker, Fish came to the public's attention in 1981 with the British rock group Marillion.

By December 1981, when the PNDC came to power, the inflation rate topped 200 percent, while real GDP had declined by 3 percent per annum for seven years.

The group first came to public attention in 1981 during the Silver Spring monkeys case, a dispute about experiments conducted by researcher Edward Taub on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The first professional athlete to come out while still playing was Czech-American professional tennis player Martina Navratilova, who came out as a lesbian during an interview with The New York Times in 1981.

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.

It came to fruition in 1981, when the first TGV service, from Paris to Lyon, was inaugurated.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

While some claim " The Tune " was inspired by Bill Gaither and Gloria Gaither's 1969 song " God Gave the Song ", Norman claims in a 1981 article in Contemporary Christian Music magazine: " Bill Gaither's music first came to my attention in 1973 when a friend played me ' God Gave the Song '.

Many think Dayton's salvation came with the completion of a floodwall in late 1981.

He was a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1981 when he came into contact with some of the first reported cases of what was later identified as AIDS.

Built in 1981, the current library sits on the historic location of Joplin's most famous landmark, the Connor Hotel, which came crashing down in 1978, one day before scheduled demolition.