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0–9. January 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 7 P) February 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P) March 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 8 P) April 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 6 P) May 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) June 1981 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) July 1981 ...
August 19: Gulf of Sidra incident. August 1 – MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States. August 5 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. August 7 – The Washington Star ceases publication after 128 years.
1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
June 21, 1981. Superman II. $14,100,523. Superman II had the highest weekend debut of all-time beating the record of $11.9 million set by Star Trek: The Motion Picture. [32] [33] 26. June 28, 1981. $10,765,687. Superman II becomes the first film to have more than one weekend with a gross over $10 million.
November 3, 1981 (Tuesday) High school junior Anthony Jacques Broussard raped and strangled 14-year-old Marcy Conrad, in Milpitas, California. "The unusual, and perhaps more disturbing, aspect of the crime was what ensued in the two days between the murder and the notification of police", [6] an author would write later.
Pages in category "November 1981 events in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hustler is a monthly adult-targeted magazine published by Larry Flynt Publications (LFP) in the United States. Introduced in 1974, it was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter, originally conceived by founder Larry Flynt as cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from an uncertain start to a peak ...
January 3, 1981 (Saturday) Salvadoran labor leader José Rodolfo Viera, and two American representatives from the AFL-CIO, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, were assassinated at the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador, by two members of the El Salvador National Guard. [10] The gunmen, José Dimas Valle Acevedo and Santiago Gómez González ...