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1981 Calendar

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•  February 5, 1981 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  February 8, 1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
•  February 23, 1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
•  February 24, 1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
•  May 21, 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
•  July 7, 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
•  August 1, 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
•  September 15, 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
•  October 14, 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
•  November 1, 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.

•  March 2, 1981 – Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
•  April 10, 1981 – Laura Bell Bundy, American actor
•  May 27, 1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
•  July 15, 1981 – Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
•  August 21, 1981 – Tyler Winklevoss, American Rower and Entrepeneur
•  August 29, 1981 – Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
•  September 2, 1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
•  September 5, 1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish professional bicyclist
•  October 26, 1981 – Sam Brown, American comedian
•  November 3, 1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian racing driver