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1981 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
"Network Radio Is Turning into Satellites", The New York Times, August 2, 1981. The SMN transmitted from Mokena, Illinois 24 hours per day, with breaks for local advertising and news, and served 600 stations before being purchased by ABC Radio in 1989. [76] A bomb exploded at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, West Germany, injuring 20 people ...
Private Christopher received a 60-year prison sentence in 1982 after being convicted of three of the September shootings. He would told The Buffalo News in 1983 that he killed 13 people, all black men, because "that was the directive" from "a collection of people". [45] Christopher would die of cancer in 1993 while in prison. [46]
The first news article about AIDS appeared on page 7 of the New York Native, a gay bi-weekly newspaper, under the headline "Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded." Larry Mass, a physician and contributor to the Native , had been alerted to an increase in reported cases of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men, and broke the news two weeks before it ...
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Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan began his third term as the President of the United Arab Emirates as that nation celebrated the 10th anniversary of its founding. [3] Zayed, who was also the Emir of Abu Dhabi and the first president of the UAE, would be re-elected every five years by the Supreme Council of the Federation, consisting of the seven monarchs who had agreed to unite in 1971.
September 25, 1981: Sydney Tower opens September 25, 1981: O'Connor becomes first woman justice on U.S. Supreme Court September 27, 1981: TGV high-speed train begins operations. The following events occurred in September 1981: