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 January 
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European Union.

force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper",
is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango
departments.

Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican.

activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband.

law.

to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the
United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis.

car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry,
Northern Ireland.

150.

Republic of China.

away within minutes by one of the strongest floods ever experienced in
the Great Karoo.

and capsizes in the Java Sea, killing 580.





of Queen Victoria (b. 1883)

1901)

and journalist (b. 1932)



 February 
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27th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 140.

AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured, after a stampede at the
Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, possibly because Gate 7 does not open
immediately after the end of the game.

replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Ireland in the early hours kills 48 people and injures 214.

Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress
of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo is about
to be named president of the government. The coup fails following its
denouncement by King Juan Carlos.

22 people, injuring 400 people and destroying several buildings and
4,000 houses, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki,
Kiato and Xylokastro.




and Mayor of Newark (b. 1914)

journalist and essayist (b. 1928)

(b. 1895)

wife of King Paul of Greece (b. 1917)

newspaper 'Völkischer Beobachter' (b. 1900)

Comets (b. 1925)

admiral (b. 1888)

of Egypt (b. 1896)

1904)

States (b. 1888)



 March 
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Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status at
HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) in Northern Ireland, dying on May 5, the
first of 7 IRA and 3 INLA hunger strikers to die.

President of Chile for another 8-year term.

test of Space Shuttle 'Columbia' at Kennedy Space Center in the United
States.

Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by
John Hinckley, Jr.; 2 police officers and Press Secretary James Brady
are also wounded.





(b. 1903)

1894)

Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)

1900)

Philippines and Senate President (b. 1907)

eugenicist, (b. 1903)

(b. 1911)



 April 
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the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

bombs, attack police and loot shops.

NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1
mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned
reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.

Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8
hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until
June 23).

results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand.


2006)

activist, actor, and writer



1896)

screenwriter (b. 1901)

philanthropist (b. 1916)

and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1910)


 May 
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basin.

private pension funds, begins.

Vienna by law students from Austria, West Germany, Poland and Hungary.

Republican Army volunteer and abstentionist Member of Parliament of
the House of Commons, dies, aged 27, on hunger strike in prison in
Northern Ireland.

Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
from 1,421 other entries.

Miami, Florida.

is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he
enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general
audience. The Pope recovers.

first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the
United States.

French Fifth Republic.

second consecutive Stanley Cup defeating the Minnesota North Stars
four games to one.

imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder in
England.

Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due.

Chittagong.

of ethnic biblioclasm of the century.



Like Mike

actress

presenter



President of Singapore (b. 1907)

Plotter (b. 1895)

Beer Hall Putsch (b. 1885)

director (b. 1923)

1904)

Servant of God (b. 1901)

Republic of China (b. 1893)

1914)

(b. 1902)


 June 
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United States report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare
form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems,
the first recognized cases of AIDS.

passenger train fall off the tracks into the Bagmati River in Bihar,
India, killing between 500 and 800.

reactor killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician.

Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots at Elizabeth II.

at Groom Lake (Area 51), Nevada.

unveiled at NAMM international Sound & Music Expo, Chicago.
Production Model Serial Number 001 is issued to Stevie Wonder.


(d. 2019)



1950)

and screenwriter (b. 1899)

Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (b. 1897)

35th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1900)

Kong (b. 1913)

South Australia (b. 1891)

playwright, literary and social critic (b. 1912)

1955)



 July 
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is brutally murdered in a massacre involving Eddie Nash in Los
Angeles.

saves a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown
riots in Leeds start after increased racial tension.

woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States.

McDonnell dies at HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) in Northern Ireland after
a 61-day hunger strike.

and Mario smash hit arcade game developed by Nintendo in Japan.

England riots in several urban areas including Liverpool and Leeds.

cricket Test match after the follow-on when they beat Australia by 18
runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.

the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapse into a
crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.

blocks containing the offices of PLO associated groups, killing
approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation
and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.

controversy over the support of apartheid.

first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.

watch the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets
in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.



(d. 2020)



director (b. 1905)

1st President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South
Yemen) (b. 1920)

religious professed and Blessed (b. 1904)

Blessed (b. 1935)



 August 
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Television) is launched in the United States and airs its first video,
'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles.

States and Major League Baseball resumes with the All-Star Game in
Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.

8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of
$1,565.

Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. Navy fighters over the
Gulf of Sidra. The U.S. jets destroy the Libyan fighters.

Brazil, by Sílvio Santos.

Ongiva, Angola during Operation Protea.

prison after pleading guilty to murdering John Lennon in Manhattan
eight months earlier.

SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flying in South Korean and international
airspace. The missile misses and the airplane is unharmed.

Minister of Iran & Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, 77th Prime Minister of
Iran are killed in terroristic explosion by People's Mujahedin of
Iran.

in West Germany, injuring 20 people.




1907)

coach (b. 1899)

of Iran (assassinated) (b. 1933)

Prime Minister of Iran (assassinated) (b. 1933)



 September 
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de facto President of Uruguay.

kills 65 people.

the Malaysian government after successfully purchasing shares to
become the major shareholder. This is famously called the 'Dawn Raid
attack'.

television sitcom 'Only Fools and Horses', "Big Brother", is shown on
BBC One.

to Madrid.

Our Lady of Sorrows.

world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside
Washington, D.C.

Kingdom.

Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.

concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.

approximately 250,000 people in Washington, D.C.

the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.

independence from the United Kingdom.

the U.S. Supreme Court.

Stadium in Philadelphia.

France begins.

Abadan in Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh.

'Danger Mouse' debuts on ITV in the U.K.



Parliament convicted of embezzlement

founding member of Lady Antebellum

writer, director, and producer

designer

Taoiseach



archaeology, and submersibles, and inventor of aeronautical,
navigation, and oceanographic equipment (b. 1904)

Union (UCR) (b. 1904)

(b. 1896)

chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (b. 1899)

1904)

cabinet minister (b. 1923)

(b. 1913)

1938)



 October 
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Machine'.

of the United States.

parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
organization led by Khalid Islambouli who are opposed to his
negotiations with Israel.

kanji.

Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat's  assassination.

Hokkaidō, Japan kill 93.

Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.

Karlskrona, Sweden military base.


& Tsubasa)

model

With The Stars



Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905)

President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated)
(b. 1918)

1921)


 November 
==========

Kingdom.

women to holy orders.

marry; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.

and win a record 4th consecutive Grey Cup in the Canadian Football
League, at the 69th Grey Cup at Montréal's Olympic Stadium defeating
the Ottawa Rough Riders (5-11-0) 26-23 in the final three seconds;
after being down 20-1 at halftime.

secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing
the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit and support Contra rebels
in Nicaragua.

outbreak in European history.

Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a coup attempt. Most of them escape
by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; six are later arrested.

the United States and the Soviet Union attempt to negotiate
intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe; the meetings
end inconclusively.



actress

Contest 2011 runner-up

personality, and filmmaker

(d. 2018)

Regina, Saskatchewan





Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)



 December 
==========

strikes a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio Airport
in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

outside South Africa.

Baie, Mauritius.

Mineworkers (Great Britain).

Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO.

Ali's last-ever fight.

dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.

(football) after a 3-0 win against Liverpool.

Lebanon, killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed.

kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.

South-West Cornwall.

Africa.

Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.

Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight
Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.


(Evanescence)




(b. 1889)

actor (b. 1886)

Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1905)

(b. 1913)

of Bolivia (b. 1896)

Director General of the UNESCO (b. 1902)

Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)



 Date unknown 
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collapse in northwestern Japan; 152 are killed.

in the United States and Caribbean.

Portland, Oregon; there is no evidence for its existence.

of Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guilin as those where the protection
of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery,
should be treated as a priority project.

Wareham to Shaftesbury in England is observed in a reenactment.

billion around the end of 1981.


 Date Unknown 
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