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.

When General Kolingba became president in 1981, he implemented an ethnicity-based recruitment policy for the administration.

When the Church chooses to canonize new material, it is typically added to the Doctrine and Covenants ; the most recent changes were made in 1981.

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

When Rawlings again seized power at the end of 1981, cocoa output had fallen to half the 1970-71 level and its world price to one-third the 1975 level.

When the PC was introduced in 1981, it was designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the " 5100 " series, though its architecture was not directly descended from the IBM 5100.

When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects.

When the Army discharged Dahmer in 1981, he was provided with a plane ticket to anywhere in the country.

When Lee made one final appeal to audition, Neil accepted and was hired April 1, 1981.

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

SIAM Journal on Computing, 10 ( 1 ): 96-113 ( 1981 )</ ref > When a question is true for almost all oracles, it is said to be true for a random oracle.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

When the International Mathematical Union in 1981 decided to create a prize, similar to the Fields Medal, in theoretical computer science and the funding for the price was secured from Finland, the Union decided to give Nevanlinna's name to the prize.

When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, finally appeared in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines.

In 1980, Tharp's work first appeared on Broadway with Twyla Tharp Dance performing When We Were Very Young, followed in 1981 by The Catherine Wheel, her collaboration with David Byrne at the Winter Garden.

When other Communist regimes later seemed at risk – in Prague in 1968, in Kabul in 1979, in Warsaw in 1981, he was convinced that, as in Budapest in 1956, only armed force could ensure their survival ".

When the Republicans took control of the Senate after the 1980 elections, Dole became chairman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985.

When Batelco was first founded in 1981, Bahrain already had 45, 627 telephone lines in use.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

Quand un ministre de Giscard faisait déporter des juifs " ( Papon, Aide-de-camp: When one of Giscard's ministers deported the Jews ) on May 6, 1981, just before the presidential election opposing Socialist candidate François Mitterrand and right-wing candidate Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

When in 1981 the local company, operating from a two-position magneto switchboard in the living room of owners Barbara and Elden Hathaway, was purchased by the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Company, a nearby larger independent company.

When Helotes incorporated in 1981, there was very little in the town.

When John Nathan-Turner took over as producer of Doctor Who in 1981, Tom Baker was infuriated by the changes made to his wardrobe.

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

When Nicolas Sarkozy became President in 2007, Juppé was one of the few " chiraquiens " to serve in François Fillon's government.

When he died in 1377, other composers such as François Andrieu wrote elegies lamenting his death.

When Marie de Luxembourg-St. Pol wed François, Count of Vendôme ( 1470 – 1495 ) in 1487, Condé-en-Brie became part of the Bourbon-Vendôme patrimony.

When Jacques François Dugommier became commander in January 1794, the army was thoroughly reorganized.

When he was about eighteen, he was sent to Italy with his brother François, abbé Tallemant.

When war broke out in August 1914, François ' corps faced the right wing of a two-pronged Russian invasion of East Prussia, led by Paul von Rennenkampf's Russian First Army.

When Hindenburg and Ludendorff went south to lead the 9th Army in Russian Poland, François remained with his corps in East Prussia and led it with much success in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes the following month.

When Hindenburg and Ludendorff prepared their counter-attack from Thorn in the direction of Łódź, François was reluctant to send the requested I Corps, sending badly trained and ill-equipped XXV Reserve Corps instead.

When Prittwitz learned that François had engaged the Russians, he sent an adjutant to order François to break off the attack and retreat.

When his father died in 1995, Lévy became the manager of the Becob company, until it was sold in 1997 for 750 million francs to the French entrepreneur François Pinault.

When in 1566 François de Montmorency, royal governor of Paris and his personal enemy, attempted to prevent the cardinal from entering the capital with an armed escort, the ensuing conflict and the precipitate flight of the cardinal gave rise to an outcry of derision which obliged him to retire to his diocese for two years.

* When three Haitian Coast Guard ships rebel against President François Duvalier and shell the presidential palace at Port-au-Prince, loyal Haitian Air Force pilots whose bombs had been confiscated out of fear that they also might rebel instead use 55-gallon drums of gasoline ( petrol ) to attack the ships.

When Louis XVI and Charles Louis François de Paule de Barentin, the Keeper of the Seals of France, addressed the deputies on 6 May, the Third Estate discovered that the royal decree granting double representation also upheld the traditional voting " by orders ", i. e., that the collective vote of each estate would be weighed equally.

When François Duvalier took the presidency, he stripped Magloire of his Haïtian citizenship.

When the Dominican Republic deported him for plotting another coup d ' etat in Haiti, François landed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

When President François Mitterrand of France came into power and decided to nationalize all French banks, Daim saw an opportunity whilst others were grumbling about the new socialist policies.

When Coluche finally abandoned, François Mitterrand, who was still impressed by the young artist's aura, asks him to join his campaign team.

When the surgeries are complete, she will have the chin of Botticelli ’ s Venus, the nose of Jean-Léon Gérôme's Psyche, the lips of François Boucher ’ s Europa, the eyes of Diana ( as depicted in a 16th-century French School of Fontainebleu painting ), and the forehead of Leonardo da Vinci ’ s Mona Lisa.

When pollinated by Chenin Blanc it produced Colombard, Balzac blanc and Meslier Saint François, and with Bastardo ( Tressot ) it produced Genouillet.