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

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

: Black women and feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's " Ain't I a Woman?

There have been five censuses after the independence of Botswana, each occurring every ten years in the year ending in 1 ( i. e. 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011 ).

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.

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.

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

Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.

* 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.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

Even after his death, other MILPAS bands sprouted during 1980 – 1981.

In 1981, after Osterlund sold his team to J. D.

It was only after the record became a success overseas that it was released in the U. S. The single hit # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.

She worked as a management trainee for Kmart in 1981 but quit after a few months and entered a beauty pageant.

* 1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F. C.

In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

Hurst became manager of Telford in 1976 and after three years joined Chelsea but was sacked in August 1981.

In 1981, less than three years after its release, the strip appeared in 850 newspapers and accumulated over $ 15 million in merchandise.

Mr. Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

* 1981 / 1983 End of IFIP after reaching its goals

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

Ever since an impromptu procession formed around Jefferson's second inauguration, every United States president except Ronald Reagan has paraded down the Avenue after taking the oath of office ( Reagan paraded up the avenue for his first inauguration, in 1981, but not for the second in 1985 because of freezing temperatures which high winds made dangerous ).

A " Friday the 13th " storm in November 1981 brought winds up to, with other storms including the inauguration day storm of January 20, 1993, the Guadalupe Day storm of December 12, 1995 ( with winds up to at Washougal, Washington ) and small tornado on January 10, 2008, which destroyed a boathouse at Vancouver Lake and caused damage to buildings in Hazel Dell before dissolving near Hockinson.

One of Bradley's last public appearances was at the festivities surrounding the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in January 1981.

Beginning with Ronald Reagan ’ s inauguration in 1981, Lujan was often mentioned as a potential nominee for Interior Secretary.

( She returned to the White House in 1981, singing at the Ronald Reagan inauguration.

The 125th Anniversary of the college was celebrated in December 11, 1981, with inauguration by Sri N. Sanjiva Reddy, the then President of India.

In the U. S., morning dress is rare ; it usually is worn in traditional weddings and political formal events, although the Reagan inauguration of 1981 was the last use for that ceremony.

The hostages were subsequently released concurrent with Reagan's inauguration in January 1981.

At that time, four Navy F / A-18 fighter jets flew over in missing man formation, and the flag that flew over the Capitol during President Reagan's 1981 inauguration was folded by the honor guard and was presented to Nancy Reagan by Captain James Symonds, the commanding officer of the USS Ronald Reagan.

Since the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat and consequential inauguration of Hosni Mubarak as the President, the Egyptian economy has endured three decades of economic stagnation that has prompted a significant number of Egyptians to emigrate to more prosperous countries, such as the United States.

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

In 1981, Hassan Gouled Aptidon was elected as President of Djibouti.

From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers.

The fourth president was Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat.

He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects.

* 1981 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

* 1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.

* 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U. S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

Doe quickly established good relations with the United States, especially after U. S. President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

In October 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

* 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.

He served as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board during 1981.

* 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D. C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

Nancy Davis Reagan ( born Anne Frances Robbins ; July 6, 1921 ) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.

First Lady Nancy Reagan and President Reagan during the inaugural parade, 1981

The last member appointed to the court who was not a former student at one of those two institutions was Sandra Day O ' Connor, appointed by the newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.