Formed in 1981, the trio took a demo tape of a track called " Body Talk " to producers Jolley & Swain.

Produced by Jolley & Swain their hit " Body Talk " reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1981.

In 1981, a group in Minneapolis / St.

* St. Helens ( 1981 ) as David Jackson

* 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

* 1981 – Headgirl ( Motörhead & Girlschool ) – St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP

* 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

His health declined still further after 1975, and he died of heart failure on 9 September 1981 in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.

The endemic flowering shrub, the St Helena Ebony, believed to have been extinct for over a century, was discovered on the island in 1981.

The British Nationality Act 1981 reclassified St Helena and the other crown colonies as British Dependent Territories.

One commentator has observed that, notwithstanding the high unemployment resulting from the loss of full passports during 1981 – 2002, the level of loyalty to the British monarchy by the St Helena population is probably not exceeded in any other part of the world.

* Thompson, William Irwin, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture ( New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981 ).

St. Andrew's College, which originally trained the ministry for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, became an affiliated College in 1981.

In 1981, Art Carney portrayed Truman in the docu-drama film St. Helens.

Truman was the subject of the book Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain written by his niece Shirley Rosen and was portrayed by Art Carney in the 1981 docu-drama film St. Helens.

* St. Regis ( 1979 – 1981 )

St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society opened its first shop in Edinburgh in 1859, and expanded to become one of the largest Co-ops before amalgamating with the Dalziel Society of Motherwell in 1981 and being renamed Scotmid.

Executive Outcomes employees, Captains Daniele Zanata and Raif St Clair ( who was also involved in the aborted Seychelles Coup of 1981 ), fought on behalf of the MPLA against UNITA in the 1990s in violation of the Lusaka Protocol.

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In 1981, General Motors moved its Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant from St. Louis, Missouri to Bowling Green.

Since 1981, the Acadia St. Landry Medical Foundation, which supports the Acadia St. Landry Hospital, has organized an annual Buggy Festival, held in Church Point on the first weekend in June.

* Milan D. Bish, Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent, as well as Special Representative to St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1981 to 1984.

Since 1981 part of the former Pusey House site has been acquired by St Cross College.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Because of the game's success, a sequel followed in 1981 dubbed Asteroids Deluxe.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

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

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – C. C. Swiney, American actor, writer, and director

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

* 1981 – Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader ( b. 1910 )

* Sanderson, Steven E. Agrarian populism and the Mexican state: the struggle for land in Sonora ( 1981 )

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

* 1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

* 1901 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal ( d. 1981 )

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

This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

No. 93, ( 1981 ), pp. 483-494 in Persée

* 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

* 1901 – Ann Harding, American actress ( d. 1981 )