Today in History for October 1981

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 60 of 60

1st - Iranian plane crash
1st - J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London
1st - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
2nd - Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
3rd - Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
3rd - Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
3rd - Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
4th - Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
4th - Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ
4th - Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
5th - Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
5th - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
7th - Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
7th - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
8th - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
8th - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser
8th - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
9th - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
10th - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
38th US President Gerald R Ford 11th - Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
11th - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
11th - LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
11th - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
11th - Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
12th - "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances
12th - 15th Country Music Association Award:
13th - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
14th - Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
14th - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
15th - NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's
15th - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
16th - 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
16th - Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
18th - Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
18th - NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
18th - Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
19th - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
19th - Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
20th - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
20th - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
20th - Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
22nd - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
22nd - Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland
22nd - US national debt tops $1 trillion
22nd - USSR performs underground nuclear test
22nd - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
22nd - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
23rd - US national debt hits $1 trillion
25th - 11th NYC Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29
25th - 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
25th - 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
25th - Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner 25th - George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
26th - LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
27th - Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
27th - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
28th - Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
28th - NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
29th - Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
31st - 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 69 of 69

1st - Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1st - Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
1st - Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
2nd - Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
2nd - Toro, Taiwanese singer
3rd - Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
3rd - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
3rd - Danny Coid, English Footballer
3rd - Matt Murton, American baseball player
3rd - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
4th - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
4th - Scott Hammond, American photographer
4th - Juka, Japanese singer
5th - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
6th - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
6th - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
8th - Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, of Netherlands
8th - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
8th - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
9th - Zachery Ty Bryan, Denver CO, actor (Brad-Home Improvement)
9th - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
9th - Darius Miles, American basketball player
10th - Michael Oliver, American actor
11th - Beau Brady, Australian Actor
12th - Shola Ameobi, English footballer
12th - Tom Guiry, American actor
12th - Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer
12th - Sneha, Indian actress
13th - Ryan Ashford, English footballer
13th - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
14th - Boof Bonser, American baseball player
15th - Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
15th - Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
15th - Keyshia Cole, African American R&B singer
15th - Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
16th - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
16th - Martin Halle, Danish footballer
16th - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
18th - Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
19th - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
20th - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
20th - Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
20th - Willis McGahee, American football player
21st - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
22nd - Michael Fishman, Long Beach California, actor (DJ-Roseanne)
22nd - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
23rd - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
23rd - Ben Francisco, American baseball player
24th - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
24th - Tila Tequila, American model
25th - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
25th - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
25th - Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
26th - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
26th - Sam Brown, American comedian
27th - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
27th - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
28th - Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
28th - Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
29th - Amanda Beard, Newport Beach CA, 100m/200m breaststroke (Oly-2 silv-96)
29th - Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
29th - Reema Sen, Indian actress
30th - Ivanka Trump, American model
30th - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
30th - Ian Snell, American baseball player
31st - Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
31st - Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew)
31st - Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
31st - Jon Crocker, American songwriter

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

5th - "The Hollywood Knights" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (23) weds actor Peter Horton (28) in Santa Monica

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

2nd - Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer/pianist, dies at 63
2nd - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
3rd - Walter Mehring, writer, dies at 85
4th - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
5th - Gloria Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 55
5th - Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48
6th - [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
7th - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
7th - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
13th - Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
14th - Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74
15th - Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies
15th - Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48
15th - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
16th - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
16th - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
16th - William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
17th - David Guion, composer, dies at 88
17th - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
19th - Frank DeKova, actor (F Troop), dies
19th - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48
22nd - Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
24th - Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
25th - Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
27th - John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 94
29th - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
30th - Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies