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 ).

# The Ringworld Engineers ( 1980 )— Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1981

# Dream Park ( 1981 )— Locus SF Award nominee, 1982

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter ( 1977 – 1981 ) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage ( still present in the town ) for three years prior to 1946.

In 1981, he was closely considered by the Ronald Reagan administration as a Supreme Court nominee.

In the general / special election of 1981, Hoyer defeated Republican nominee Audrey Scott 56 %- 44 %.

A 1973 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Mr. Baker has been nominated for a Grammy Award ( 1979 ), honored three times by Down Beat magazine ( as a trombonist, for lifetime achievement, and most recently as the third inductee to their jazz Education Hall of Fame ), and has received the National Association of jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award ( 1981 ), President ’ s Award for Distinguished Teaching ( 1986 ) from Indiana University, the Arts Midwest jazz Masters Award ( 1990 ), and the Governor ’ s Arts Award of the State of Indiana ( 1991 ).

** Hugo Award nominee, 1981

* The Affirmation, ( n .) Faber and Faber, London, 1981 — BSFA nominee, 1981

He is the grandfather of two famous politicians, Brice Lalonde, a Green Party candidate for President of France in 1981, and US Senator John Forbes Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America in 2004.

* 1981 Tony Award for Best Original Score ( Charlie and Algernon, nominee )

# Savage Planet ( 1981 Hugo & Locus nominee )

Sundiver was a nominee for the 1981 Locus Award in the First Novel category.

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

He was finally elected to the United States Senate in 1962, replacing retiring incumbent Prescott Bush by defeating Republican nominee Horace Seely-Brown with 51 % of the vote, and served in the Senate from January 3, 1963, until January 3, 1981.

File 770 is a frequent nominee in the category having made the final Hugo ballot in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010 in addition to the years in which it was the winner.

* Dream Park ( 1981 )-Locus Award nominee, 1982

He was appointed to the Commission by the Labour government over Margaret Thatcher's nominee John Davies, but she reappointed him in 1981.

* Sophisticated Ladies, 1981 ( Tony Award nominee for Best Choreography )

In 1981, Manatt became the national chairman of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ), and oversaw and executed the 1984 party convention, nominating former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota for President, and New York congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro, making history as that marked the first time a woman was a major party nominee.

* 1981 Tony Award Best Book of a Musical 42nd Street ( nominee )

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

* 1981 – John McFall, English sprinter

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

* On November 20, 1981, the CBC Radio series Nightfall aired an adaptation of Carmilla written by Graham Pomeroy and John Douglas.

In the 1970s, McLean usually toured solo but from 1981 to 1996 was accompanied by John Platania on guitar.

* Mosedale, John ( 1981 ).

Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter.

John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement ( Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981 ).

* 1981 – John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter

Between 1979 and 1985, under John Negroponte's appointment as U. S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U. S. military and economic aid to Honduras jumped from $ 31 million to $ 282 million.

* 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 )

* 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

* 1981 – 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.

* John Walker Lindh ( born 1981 ), aka John Walker, imprisoned American captured as an enemy combatant in 2001, in Afghanistan

John Phillip Walker Lindh ( born February 9, 1981 ) is a United States citizen who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States ' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

This piece is John Adams's second major composition on a text, after Harmonium ( 1981 ) for chorus and orchestra.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

* Levtzion, Nehemia, and John Hopkins: Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, Cambridge 1981.

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

* 1981 – John Maine, American baseball player

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