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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1981. This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1981. Overall, a total of 87 songs hit the top 10, including 17 number-one songs and 10 songs that peaked at number-two. Hall & Oates scored four top ten hits during the year with "Kiss on My List", "You Make My Dreams ...
Billboard. Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1981. "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes was the number one song of 1981. Three songs by John Lennon appear on the Year-End Hot 100, charting posthumously after his murder in late 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981. [ 1][ 2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition ...
16 October 2024. ( 2024-10-16) An image produced as part of the World Food Programme's social media campaign for World Food Day in 2015. World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.