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Results 1 - 77 of 77

1st - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1st - Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
1st - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1st - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
2nd - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
4th - Yes performs its last concert (MSG)
5th - Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
5th - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
6th - 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
6th - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
6th - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
6th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
6th - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
6th - Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
7th - 100th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64)
7th - 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
7th - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes
7th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf
7th - Cape Verde adopts its constitution
7th - Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
7th - Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
7th - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic
7th - John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title
8th - Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
10th - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
10th - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
11th - Chile adopts its constitution
11th - Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
12th - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
13th - 1st United Negro College Fund
14th - "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs
14th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
14th - Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
15th - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
17th - "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
17th - Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria
17th - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
17th - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
17th - Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
18th - "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
18th - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
18th - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
19th - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
20th - Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
20th - George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
20th - Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
20th - Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
21st - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
21st - LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception
21st - Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
21st - Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
22nd - Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
22nd - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
22nd - John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records
23rd - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
24th - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
24th - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
25th - Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
25th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
25th - Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
25th - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
26th - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
26th - Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
26th - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
27th - WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
27th - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
28th - "Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs
28th - Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
28th - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing
28th - Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
29th - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
30th - 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
30th - A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100
30th - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
30th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.