* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

* 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia ( OV-102 ) completes its first test flight.

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

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.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

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.

The first convincing synthesis was in 1981 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ( Institute for Heavy Ion Research, GSI ) in Darmstadt using the Dubna reaction.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

At the party's first electoral contest, Jenkins narrowly failed to win a by-election at Warrington in July 1981, describing it as his " first defeat, but by far ( his ) greatest victory ".

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

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

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.

The two companies underwent a name change to Sambi Co., Ltd. in September 1981, while Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was first established on June 11, 1983, for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World when The Bee Gees ' album Living Eyes ( 1981 ) was played.

The first CD to be manufactured at the new factory was The Visitors ( 1981 ) by ABBA.

Censuses during independence have been taken 1947, 1960 ( the first comprehensive demographic investigation ), 1970, 1976 ( a sample census ), 1981, 1994 and 2004 and the next would be taken at 2017.

* 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.

* 1981 – of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.

* General Motors Shreveport Operations, Shreveport, Louisiana – in 2005, to accommodate the production of the H3, an additional were added to plant built by GM in 1981.

In the UK, it is an offence under section 14 ( 2 ) of the Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 to " plant or otherwise cause to grow in the wild " any plant listed in Schedule nine, Part II to the Act, which includes Japanese knotweed.

1910, removed from the gate of the Dodge Main plant before its 1981 demolition

The plant became operational on 14 October 1981, producing about 120 kW of electricity ; 90 kW was used to power the plant and the remaining electricity was used to power a school and other places.

The binary cycle power plant was first demonstrated in 1967 in the U. S. S. R. and later introduced to the U. S. in 1981.

General Motors has an assembly plant in Bowling Green in which all Chevrolet Corvettes have been constructed since 1981 and Cadillac XLRs were being built there until production ended in the spring of 2009.

In 1981, General Motors moved its Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant from St. Louis, Missouri to Bowling Green.

UCC was warned by American experts who visited the plant after 1981 of the potential of a " runaway reaction " in the MIC storage tank.

It is one of only a handful of water bodies in the country to contain Holly-leaved Naiad ( Najas marina ), a species on the flowering plant section of the list of endangered species in the British Isles and is protected under Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

In past decades, several systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system.

This power plant began serving the city in 1981 after seven years of initial planning.

The opening of a large Intel Corporation plant in 1981 had a major economic impact on the city.

Volvo AB acquired the U. S. assets of the company in 1981, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services, and NovaCorp, an Alberta corporation, purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range.

* Malta: In 1981, SGS-Thomson ( now STMicroelectronics ) built its first assembly plant in Malta.

John phillips ( born 1981 ) plant city, live in winter haven

More product lines became available with the Quicklon ( sometimes called Cosmolon ) fasteners in December 1981. International and product expansion continued durig the 1980s, with a real estate business in Singapore in December 1984, an agricultural business in Brazil in January 1985, and a plant in Indonesia in September 1986 producing zippers and aluminium parts for buildings.

Production of the Mark 1 Astra took place in West Germany initially, with production moving to Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant in Britain some two years later, on 16 November 1981.

In addition to those weeds covered by the 1959 act, under section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it can be an offence to plant or grow certain specified plants in the wild ( see Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 ), including Giant Hogweed and Japanese Knotweed.

The arrival of the Morales family was a part of a much wider migration to the region, with many Bolivians hoping to set up farms where they could earn a living growing coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, and was experiencing a steady rise in price and which could be cultivated up to four times a year ; in 1981 El Chapare's population was 40, 000 but by 1988 it had risen to 215, 000.

* 1980 – 1981 – worked as a mechanical engineer at the electrical engineering plant in Stepanakert