* 1981 – Matt Ulrich, American football player

* Ulrich Busch, Manesse, Zürich 1981

Later in 1981, Ulrich met James Hetfield in Downey, California they formed the heavy metal band Metallica.

1981 was a turning point in Antel's career when he adapted for the big screen a stage play by Ulrich Becher and Peter Preses.

* Ulrich Mann — keyboards ( 1978 – 1981 )

ERE Informatique was one of the first French video game companies, founded in 1981 by Philippe Ulrich and Emmanuel Viau.

When Mulligan left the group in late 1981, Leather Charm disbanded and Hetfield began working with drummer Lars Ulrich on a new project, Metallica.

Until 1981, Ulrich held a series of positions overseeing merchandising for Dayton Hudson, including overseeing merchandising for Dayton's Department Stores.

She has been married to casting director Robert J. Ulrich since 1981 and has two children, a son Cooper, and a daughter Tierney.

* 5020 Asimov, an asteroid discovered in 1981, named after Isaac Asimov

A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981, is named after him.

In 1981, a social worker discovered a trust fund established for Love by her mother's adoptive parents, which provided her with a $ 500 monthly stipend, and she gained legal emancipation.

However, before the showing, an Aberystwyth University student discovered that the film had never been banned in Aberystwyth, but was shown ( or was scheduled to be shown ) at a cinema in the town in 1981.

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

On 25 November 1981 a force of mercenaries led by " Mad " Mike Hoare attempted to take over the islands, but were discovered at the airport.

According to the NFL's highlight film for the game, the 49ers had discovered Wersching's ability to effectively use the squib during their 1981 season opener when a leg injury kept him from fully powering into the football.

Eurisko discovered exploitable features of the starship design system that allowed it to build an unusual fleet that won the 1981 TCS national championship.

A minor planet 2983 Poltava discovered in 1981 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after the city.

These groups ( the groups of Lie type, together with the cyclic groups, alternating groups, and the five exceptional Mathieu groups ) were believed to be a complete list, but after a lull of almost a century since the work of Mathieu, in 1964 the first Janko group was discovered, and the remaining 20 sporadic groups were discovered or conjectured in 1965 – 1975, culminating in 1981, when Robert Griess announced that he had constructed Bernd Fischer's " Monster group ".

The W and Z bosons were discovered experimentally in 1981, and their masses were found to be as the Standard Model predicted.

* 2396 Kochi, Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1981

* 1981 — The CfA2 Great Wall is discovered

In 1981 Seev Jevin, the former director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, entered the passage after a group of Jewish settlers from Hebron had entered the chamber via the entrance near the mihrab and discovered the square stone in the round chamber that concealed the cave entrance.

It was discovered by Mark R. Showalter in 1990 from analysis of old Voyager 2 probe photos and received the provisional designation because the discovery images dated back to 1981.

He had received them from historian Michel Bergès, who had discovered them in February 1981 in the departmental archives.

In 1981 bestselling novelist Clive Cussler and his organization NUMA discovered the wreck of the blockade runner Raccoon off Sullivan's Island.

Meeteetse was where the last known wild population of black-footed ferrets was discovered in 1981.

The oldest football still in existence, which is thought to have been made circa 1540, was discovered in the roof of Stirling Castle, Scotland, in 1981.

In 1981, Ian Astbury had moved into a new house in Bradford and reportedly discovered a band rehearsing in the cellar.

He was discovered by Saturday Night Live and joined SNL as a writer and cast member in 1981.

This edition contains four discs, retaining the three from the Region 1 Imperial Edition, and including a newly discovered half hour of deleted and alternate footage not present in the US release, and a fourth disc ( third in order of the set ) claiming to feature the 1981 R-rated version, but it ended up being the 1999 version.

It was discovered in 1981, and named to honor geologist John T. Alfors ( 1930 – 2005 ) of the California Geological Survey for his work in the area where it was discovered.

* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.

* 1940 – Mike Hailwood, British motorcycle racer ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Amy Leach, British director

* 1981 – James Hibberd, British cricketer

* 1981 – Alex Lanipekun, British actor

* 1981 – Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager ( b. 1935 )

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.

It was declared a British colony and given the name British Honduras in 1871, gaining independence as Belize in 1981.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

* 1981 – Michelle Dockery, British actress

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.

British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

* 1981 – Jay Howard, British racing driver

* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter " Retrospect ".

* 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 )

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

* 1981 – British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

Some, primarily producing telephone bills, were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, forerunner of British Telecom, until 1981, which remained usable through parts cannibalised from redundant LEOs purchased by the GPO.

* 2009 – Jade Goody, British reality show contestant on Big Brother ( b. 1981 )

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.