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.

The longest running White House Peace Vigil | peace vigil in US history, started by activist Thomas ( activist ) | Thomas in 1981.

The Jamaican influence present in Criminal Minded is well illustrated by the use of the " Mad Mad " or " Diseases " riddim started in 1981 with reggae star Yellowman's song " Zunguzung.

3Com shipped its first 10 Mbit / s Ethernet 3C100 transceiver in March 1981, and that year started selling adapters for PDP-11s and VAXes, as well as Multibus-based Intel and Sun Microsystems computers.

After the genre had started to go out of fashion with mainstream audiences in 1981, the mod revival scene went underground and successfully reinvented itself through a series of clubs, bands and fanzines that breathed fresh life into the genre, culminating in another burst of creative acceptance in 1985.

However, it was not until the early 1981 that gothic rock became its own subgenre within post-punk, and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement.

In 2012, the sales of Unicharm adult diapers had slightly surpassed those for babies, although Unicharm started selling diapers for adults in 1987, while for babies since 1981.

In 1981 the International Fantasy Gaming Society ( IFGS ) started, with rules influenced by Dungeons & Dragons.

In 1975, Tarasconi, from the Department of Ob-Gyn of the University of Passo Fundo Medical School ( Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil ), started his experience with organ resection by laparoscopy ( Salpingectomy ), first reported in the Third AAGL Meeting, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, November 1976 and later published in The Journal of Reproductive Medicine in 1981.

In 1981, a team led by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University started work on what would become the first MIPS processor.

With the release of Movement in November 1981, New Order initially started on a similar route as their previous incarnation, performing dark, melodic songs, albeit with an increased use of synthesisers.

In 1981, Papert along with several others in the Logo group at MIT, started Logo Computer Systems Inc., of which he was Board Chair for over 20 years.

In 1981 Minter started independently writing and selling video games for the Sinclair ZX80.

Patrese, together with the official who started the race, stood trial in 1981 for Peterson's death but both were declared not guilty and speculations towards Hunt's involvement in Peterson's death arose instead.

The collider started running in 1981 and, in early 1983, an international team of more than 100 physicists headed by Rubbia and known as the UA1 Collaboration, detected the intermediate vector bosons, the W and Z bosons, which had become a cornerstone of modern theories of elementary particle physics long before this direct observation.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

Daniel Ash had already started Tones on Tail with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling as a side-project in 1981 ; after Bauhaus broke up Kevin Haskins joined the group, which released an album and several EPs before breaking up following a 1984 American tour.

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.

Licio Gelli's downfall started with the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, which led to a 1981 police raid on his villa and the discovery of the P2 covert lodge.

ISHRAE was started at Delhi in 1981 and a chapter was started in Bangalore in 1989.

Jackson started slowly with the bat, and, when the 1981 Major League Baseball strike began, Steinbrenner invoked a clause in Jackson's contract forcing him to take a complete physical examination.

The new Marvel series started in December, 1981 and ended in November, 1982.

MetaComCo ( MCC ) was a computer systems software company started in 1981 and based in Bristol, England by Peter Mackeonis and Derek Budge.

Work on a Motorola 68000 version started in 1981 at the University of Bath.

* 1981 – Christian Bautista, Philippine singer

* Rock Reconsidered: A Christian Looks at Contemporary Music ( 1981 )

* Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way: The Story of Ted Turner by Christian Williams ( Times Books, 1981 ) ISBN 0-8129-1004-4

A Parliamentary Commission, directed by Tina Anselmi ( of the Christian Democratic party ), found no evidence of crimes, but in 1981 the Italian parliament passed a law banning secret associations in Italy.

Many of the patterns used for the Lindisfarne Gospels date back beyond the Christian period ( Backhouse 1981, 47 ).

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Christian Right was influencing elections and policy with groups such as the Family Research Council ( founded 1981 by James Dobson ) and the Christian Coalition ( formed in 1989 by Pat Robertson ) helping conservative politicians, especially Republicans to win state and national elections.

According to Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck, by 1981 Stonehill ( like many other Contemporary Christian Music artists ) had transitioned from an evangelistic focus to one of " encouragement, exhortation, and Christian accountability ".

In 1981 Stonehill that his " role in Christian seem to be one of an encourager to living a more committed life ".

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 '.

In March 1981 Norman was featured on the cover of Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) magazine, and was the subject of an extended interview by CCM magazine founder John A. Styll entitled " Trials, Tribulations and Happy Endings ".

Norman discussed his first marriage in several interviews: Buzz Magazine ( 1981 ); Australian Christian magazine On Being in 1985 ; and in a June 1989 article.

A group of these anti-revolutionaries left the CDA in 1981 to found the left-wing Christian Evangelical People's Party.

* Coulon, Christian ( 1981 ) Le Marabout et le Prince: Islam et Pouvoir au Senegal A. Pedone, Paris, ISBN 2-233-00100-1

Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981.

Hawthorne Christian Academy is an evangelical Christian school established in 1981 by the Hawthorne Gospel Church, serving students in preschool through 12th grade.

The Evangelical People's Party was a relatively new party, founded in 1981, as a splinter group from the Christian Democratic Appeal, the largest party of the Dutch centre-right.

He was made a member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and served from 1976 to 1981 as a consultor to its Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

Leasowe Hospital was eventually bought by the Wirral Christian Centre in 1981 and was used later as a retirement home and handicap centre.

* 1981: Shirley Christian, Miami Herald, " for her dispatches from Central America.