Today in History for March 1981

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 64 of 64

1st - "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs
1st - Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies)
1st - Irish Rep Army Bobby Sand begins hunger strike in Maze Prison
1st - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
2nd - Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
2nd - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC
3rd - Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals
3rd - NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
5th - "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 perfs
5th - Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & C Dean (GRB)
5th - Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS)
5th - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
5th - US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
6th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
6th - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
6th - Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
6th - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
7th - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 perfs
7th - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
8th - "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs
8th - Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
8th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
9th - Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
11th - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
11th - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
12th - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
12th - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
12th - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
13th - NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
15th - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
15th - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
15th - Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
17th - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
18th - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
19th - -21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
19th - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
19th - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
20th - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
20th - Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
22nd - 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
22nd - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
22nd - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
22nd - Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
23rd - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
23rd - Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
24th - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
24th - Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
24th - Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
26th - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
26th - Soyuz T-4 lands
27th - John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
28th - Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)
28th - France performs nuclear test
28th - Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
28th - Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
28th - Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
29th - "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
29th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
29th - Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
29th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
30th - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III
31st - 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
31st - 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 61 of 61

1st - Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel
1st - Adam LaVorgna, American actor
1st - Will Power, Australian racing driver
1st - Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
2nd - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
3rd - Dusty Dvoracek, American football player
3rd - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
3rd - Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
3rd - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
4th - Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
4th - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
5th - Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
5th - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
5th - Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
6th - Ellen Muth, American actress
8th - Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
9th - Antonio Bryant, American football player
9th - Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
9th - Clay Rapada, American baseball player
10th - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
10th - Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer
10th - Steven Reid, English-born footballer
11th - David Anders, American actor
11th - Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster
11th - Lee Evans, American football player
11th - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
11th - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)
11th - Paul Wall, American rapper
13th - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
14th - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
14th - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
15th - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
15th - Young Buck, American rapper
16th - Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
16th - Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
16th - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
17th - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
17th - Servet Çetin, Turkish Football Player
18th - Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
18th - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
18th - Kasib Powell, American basketball player
19th - Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model
19th - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
22nd - MIMS, American rapper
23rd - Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
23rd - Erin Crocker, American NASCAR driver
23rd - Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
24th - Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
26th - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
26th - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
26th - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
27th - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
27th - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
27th - Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
Actress Julia Stiles (28th) 28th - Julia Stiles, New York City, NY, American actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance)
28th - Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
28th - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
28th - Lindsay Frimodt, American model
29th - Megan Hilty, American actress
29th - Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer
31st - Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

2nd - Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30
4th - Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies
4th - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
5th - Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64
5th - Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86
6th - George Geary, cricketer (14 Tests for England, 46 wickets), dies
6th - Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
7th - John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
7th - Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
14th - Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
15th - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
17th - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
22nd - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
26th - Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
26th - Tim Wall, cricketer (SA v NSW 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies
27th - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
29th - Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
30th - Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
30th - Noel Harford, cricketer (8 Tests for NZ 1955-58), dies
31st - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)