During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

On 28 March 1981 Powell gave a speech to Ashton-under-Lyne Young Conservatives where he attacked the " conspiracy of silence " between the government and the opposition over the prospective growth through births of the immigration population and added, "' We have seen nothing yet ' is a phrase that we could with advantage repeat to ourselves whenever we try to form a picture of that future ".

In 1979, the city was home to the Metz Congress, the seventh national congress of the French Socialist Party, during which future French President François Mitterrand won the nominating process of the French presidential election of 1981 after defeating the internal opposition led by Michel Rocard.

Vandeweghe was traded to the Denver Nuggets, along with a first-round pick in 1981, in exchange for two future first-round picks that eventually materialized into Rolando Blackman in 1981 and Sam Perkins in 1984.

On November 14, 1981, he fought future world champ Carlos Santos of Ceiba, Puerto Rico.

Laporte then fought future world champion Rocky Lockridge in 1981 at Las Vegas, scoring a second round knockout to become the United States Featherweight champion.

In 1981, he appeared in NBC's musical comedy children's special How to Eat Like a Child alongside other future child stars Billy Jacoby and Georg Olden.

After eight consecutive knockouts, Holmes was forced to go the distance when he successfully defended his title against future WBC Heavyweight Champion Trevor Berbick on April 11, 1981.

After the two legal suits from both Pinder in 1981 and Moraz in 1992, the band were careful not to recognize future keyboard players as official members.

It did, however, feature prophetic female vocals by guest vocalists Lisa Strike and Katie Kissoon sounding like the yet-to-be-formed future Human League of 1981.

However, all future LDS Church printings of the Book of Mormon until 1981 continued from the second edition, saying the Lamanites would become " a white and delightsome people ".

He then went on to defeat Lottie Mwale, Vonzell Johnson, future world Super-Middleweight champion Murray Sutherland and Jerry Martin, all in defense of his world title, before facing Muhammad Qawi ( then Braxton ) in December 1981.

However, the cumulative effect of stalled sovereignty negotiations, the British Nationality Act 1981 ( which would deprive many Islanders of their rights as full British citizens ), the announced withdrawal of, the shelving of plans to rebuild the Royal Marine barracks at Moody Brook, and the proposed closure of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken on South Georgia, was to convince Argentina that Britain had no future interest in the Islands.

The Jets ' first two wretched NHL seasons did net them high draft picks ; in the 1981 they drafted future Hall of Fame member Dale Hawerchuk first overall and in the 1981 Dave Babych second overall.

The opening of the Humber Bridge on 24 June 1981 provided a permanent link between North and South Humberside but did not secure Humberside's future.

The hardback edition saw the Internet as one of the " important precursors of the information highway ... suggestive of future " ( p. 89 ); he noted that the " popularity of the Internet is the most important single development in the world of computing since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981 " ( p. 91 ) but " today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway ", the information highway he envisioned would be as different from the Internet as the Oregon Trail was to Interstate 84.

Elway also excelled as a baseball player playing right field and pitcher, finishing his senior year hitting. 361 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs in 49 games and a 5 – 4 record with a 4. 51 ERA. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 1981 MLB draft ( 52nd overall, six spots ahead of future Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn ).

Decades later, in 1981, Wood was present at a historic pitcher's duel between Yale University and Saint John's University, featuring future major leaguers Ron Darling and Frank Viola.

In 1981, Kathryn J. Whitmire became the city's first female mayor and held that position for 10 years ; after she left office, term limits were enacted to prevent future mayors from serving for more than 6 years.

It finally opened on 24 June 1981, providing a permanent link between North and South ( and cutting the journey from Grimsby to Beverley to a mere 30 or so miles ), but did not secure Humberside's future.

In 1981, Kim won the bantamweight gold medal at the King's Cup Boxing, defeating future Commonwealth Games gold medalist Hussein Khalili of Kenya in the final.

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

He subsequently expanded the system to include the rest of South America in 1981, and the world in 1989.

When Rawlings again seized power at the end of 1981, cocoa output had fallen to half the 1970-71 level and its world price to one-third the 1975 level.

In 1981 he set a world record of 61m in the constant weight discipline, using fins.

Malik Mushtaq was the best player of kabbadi in pakistan. he was declare man od the tournament in canada world kabbadi cup 1981.

born 24 February 1981 ) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no.

Associated with the Fête de la Musique, created by Jack Lang in Paris in 1981 to celebrate music and musicians, the Festa was incorporated into the Italian Minister of Culture's agenda in 1994, and has since spread across Italy as well as the world, encouraging the cooperation and musical exchanges between the participating cities.

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.

* 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D. C.

Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.

In April 1981, the International BMX Federation was founded, and the first world championships were held in 1982.

In 1981 it was the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world when it ran under its own power again.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

Dream scenes may be indistinguishable from those set in the dreamer's real world, a narrative device that undermines the dreamer's and the audience's sense of security and allows horror film protagonists, such as those of Carrie ( 1976 ), Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) or An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) to be suddenly attacked by dark forces while resting in seemingly safe places.

In New Zealand between 1976 and 1981 tens of thousands of hippies gathered from around the world on large farms around Waihi and Waikino for music and alternatives festivals.

* 7 time world champion ( Three-move ): 1955, 1958, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989

In 1981, they got together again for the famous concert in Central Park, followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much, which was eventually released ( without Garfunkel ) as Hearts and Bones.

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

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

Ashford was ranked # 1 in the world by Track & Field News over 100 metres in 1979 and 1981, and over 200 metres in 1981.

Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.

Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots ( 1981 ), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world.

Between the spring of 1981 and early 1982 he handed almost 4, 000 secret documents over to the French, including the complete official list of 250 Line X KGB officers stationed under legal cover in embassies around the world, before being arrested in February 1982 and executed in 1983.

After that loss, Benitez again moved up in weight, and on May 23, 1981, at age 22, he became the youngest three-time world champion in boxing history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight Champion Maurice Hope in twelve rounds in Las Vegas.