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

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Craven Cottage held the team's largest ever crowd at any ground with 15, 013, at a game against Wakefield Trinity on 15 February 1981.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

He played his last concert in February 1981.

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

It charted on February 14th, 1981 and reached number 28 while " Crying " climbed to number 5 on the pop singles chart.

The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

The scene appears to have taken the gothic name from an article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: " The face of Punk Gothique ", written by Steve Keaton and published in February 1981.

She served as Prime Minister from February to October in 1981.

Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

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.

February 9, 1981

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

A more celebrated unsavoury incident occurred on 1 February 1981 at the end of a one-day match between Australia and New Zealand.

When the first movie was released on February 22, 1981, it was regarded as the beginning of a new age of anime.

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

More recently, on February 23, 1981, the Nijmegen Police Department and the Dutch Army stormed the Piersonstraat and Zeigelhof, a squatted housing block in the city centre of Nijmegen.

Elected to Sanjay's Lok Sabha ( parliamentary ) constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state in February 1981, Gandhi became an important political advisor to his mother.

Nonetheless his function as commander in chief and his role of the symbol of national unity have been exercised, most notably in the military coup of 23 February 1981, where king Juan Carlos I addressed the country on national television in military uniform, denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of the law and the continuance of the democratically elected government, thus defusing the uprising.

Salem al-Hazmi (,, also transliterated as Alhazmi ) ( February 2, 1981 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Hazmi was born on February 2, 1981 to Muhammad Salim al-Hazmi, a grocer, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

* February 16 – Józef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and composer ( b. 1876 )

* February 17 – Hans Hofmann, German-American painter ( b. 1880 )

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Hofmann was arrested for murder and forgery in February 1986.

* February 9 – Copernicium first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov and others.

Hofmann died of pneumonia on February 16, 1957.

Hans Hofmann ( March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966 ) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.

* Hans Hofmann, painter ( 21 March 1880 – 17 February 1966 )

* February 17-Hans Hofmann, abstract expressionist painter, teacher ( b. 1880 )

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Alfonso tried to regain the favour of the queen, but failed, and had to wait for the death of both Louis ( at Cosenza in 1434 ) and Joan herself ( February 1435 ).

On February 8, 1831, he was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes, or church.

In February 1601, the earl tried to raise a rebellion in London.

* 1727 February – June – Second of the sieges by Spain tried to recapture Gibraltar ( Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar ).

She was eventually tried for treason and sentenced to death, being beheaded in February 1587.

On February 1, 2010 it was announced that Sichuan and General Motors had agreed to extend the deadline until the end of February as Sichuan tried to get approval by the Chinese government.

As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost (" openness "), perestroika (" restructuring "), demokratizatsiya (" democratization "), and uskoreniye (" acceleration " of economic development ), which were launched at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February 1986.

On 7 February 2006, five journalists were tried for insulting the judicial institutions of the State, and for aiming to prejudice a court case ( per Article 288 of the Turkish penal code ).

On 20 February 1948, Prokofiev's wife Lina was arrested for ' espionage ', as she tried to send money to her mother in Spain.

The New Jersey legislature also tried to rescind its ratification on February 20, 1868, citing procedural problems with the amendment's congressional passage, including that specific states were unlawfully denied representation in the House and the Senate at the time.

In February 1951, Christopher Strachey tried to run a draughts ( checkers ) program he had written for the Pilot ACE.

* February 19 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is tried for conspiracy and acquitted.

* February 28 – Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church.

In a February 1975 interview with his friend David Lewin he said he " tried " homosexuality.

As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, " The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup ", but " despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up ".

On 19 February 1601, Essex was tried before his peers on charges of treason.

Heath tried to bolster his government by calling a general election for 28 February 1974, using the election slogan " Who governs Britain ?".

On 25 February 1723 a servant who tried to awaken Wren from his nap found that he had died.

He also tried his hand at acting, appearing in the The Colorado Cattle Caper episode of the McCloud television movie on February 24, 1974, and starring in the 1977 film Oh, God!

The ABA tried to halt the Gervin deal, claiming it was detrimental to the league, but a judge would rule in the Spurs ' favor, and Gervin made his Spurs debut on February 7.

In an attempt to raise money, Charles tried to devalue the currency ; Marcel ordered strikes, and the Dauphin was forced to cancel his plans and recall the Estates in February, 1357.

Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch on 9 November 1923, Röhm, Hitler, General Erich Ludendorff, Lt-Colonel Kriebel and six others were tried in February 1924 on charges of treason.

After the group's members were arrested, tortured, and publicly tried, they were executed by firing squad in Mont-Valérien | Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944.