Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* Clay, Jenny Strauss, " Immortal and ageless forever ", The Classical Journal 77. 2 ( December 1981: pp. 112 – 117 ).

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A third force, Misurasata, appeared among the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Amerindian peoples of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, who in December 1981 found themselves in conflict with the authorities following the government's efforts to nationalize Indian land.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

* First Usage of " Kluge " on UseNET ( 14 December 1981 )

11 On December 1981, the State Department invalidated U. S. passports for travel to Libya ( a de facto travel ban ) and, for purposes of safety, advised all U. S. citizens in Libya to leave.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.

* 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe ( the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17 ).

An NRC study panel on the topic met in December 1981 and April 1982.

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On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.

The December 20th, 1982 Cincinnati game was a rematch of the 1981 AFC Championship Game.

In December 1981, the Israeli Knesset voted to extend Israeli law to the part of the Golan Heights over which Israel retained control.

On December 29, 1981 the government declared an " emergency zone " in the three Andean regions of Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Apurímac, and granted the military the power to arbitrarily detain any suspicious person.

Chapter headings such as ‘ Selective Use of Violence for propagandistic Effects ’ and ‘ Implicit and Explicit Terror ’ made that fact clear enough ... The little booklet thus violated President Reagan ’ s own Presidential Directive 12333, signed in December 1981, which prohibited any U. S. government employee-including the CIA-from having anything to do with assassinations .”

His 50th goal of the season came on December 30, 1981 in the final seconds of a 7 – 5 win against the Philadelphia Flyers and was his fifth of the game.

Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, ( 20 December 1951-29 July 2001 ) cofounded the Chaos Computer Club ( CCC ) in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.

* December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor and socialite ( d. 1981 )

* December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author ( d. 1981 )

* December 11 – Walter Knott, American farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm ( d. 1981 )

* October 8 – Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981.

Robertson song " To Be or Not to Be " on December 31, 1981.

Gordon Banks, OBE ( born 30 December 1937 ) is a retired English football goalkeeper.

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.

Robert Gordon Menzies was born to James Menzies and Kate Menzies ( née Sampson ) in Jeparit, a town in the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria, on 20 December 1894.

* December 8 – Mary Gordon, American writer

* December 25 – Eric Gordon, American basketball player

* December 7 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor ( b. 1887 )

* December 19 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor ( d. 1990 )

* December 2 – Leo Gordon, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards, Canadian film director ( b. 1867 )

On December 3, 2007, Robertson resigned as chief executive of CBN ; he was succeeded by his son, Gordon.

A week later on December 14, 2011, the Hornets agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers that would send Paul to Los Angeles in exchange for Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, and a first-round draft pick acquired by the Clippers from a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2004.

On December 14, 2011 they traded Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu and Minnesota's 2012 first round pick acquired in 2005 for New Orleans Hornets ' four-time all-star Chris Paul.

It was not until December 29, 1835 that Georgia had an official basis for claiming the unceded Cherokee lands that included the future location of Gordon County.

A second petition to dissolve the Gordon Heights Fire District was filed on December 31, 2008.

After sites in Gordon Square and Primrose Hill were considered, on 12 December 1855 Angus decided to relocate the College to Holford House in the rural environs of Regent ’ s Park and to rename the Academy ‘ Regent ’ s Park College ’.

George Gordon Meade ( December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872 ) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses.

Once again, however, personnel problems wracked the band as Grech and Gordon left the band in December 1971, and the month after, Winwood's struggles with peritonitis brought Traffic to a standstill.

* December 7 – Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor.

On December 6, 2007, Gordon Moore and his wife donated $ 200 million to Caltech and the University of California for the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, the world's largest optical telescope.

It opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 9 December 1981 with Gordon Jackson as Superintendent Battle and a cast that included Derek Waring, Belinda Carroll, Mary Tamm and Patricia Driscoll.

Staveley selected Gordon, who had been made a brevet major in December 1862 and the nomination was approved by the British government.

It made its first appearance in issue 1326, dated 16 December 1967, and was drawn by Gordon Bell.

James Gordon MacArthur ( December 8, 1937October 28, 2010 ) was an American actor best known for the role of Danny " Danno " Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad Hawaii Five-O.

Gordon Evans Dean ( December 28, 1905-August 15, 1958 ) was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) from 1950 to 1953.

In 1971 he secured a move to Third Division Mansfield Town, quickly followed by a move to league rivals Port Vale in December 1971, whose manager Gordon Lee paid Mansfield £ 5, 000 for his services.