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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.
Events from the year 1981 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia) (until January 20) Ronald ...
The 1981 tax cuts, some of the largest in U.S. history, also eroded the revenue base of the federal government in the short-term. The massive increase in military spending (about $1.6 trillion over five years) far exceeded cuts in social spending, despite wrenching impact of such cuts spending geared toward some of the poorest segments of society.
1981 – 1982 United States is part of the global recession, with national unemployment as high as 9%, with some areas much higher, and inflation as high as 13.5%. Early 1980s recession; 1981 – Kemp-Roth Tax Cut; 1981 – MTV signs on, becoming the first 24-hour cable network dedicated to airing music videos.
April 26 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco, performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. June 5 – AIDS pandemic begins when the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
Aer Lingus Flight 164 from Dublin to London was hijacked by Laurence James Downey, whose motive was to learn the 3rd of the Three Secrets of Fátima.After dowsing himself with gasoline and threatening to set himself afire, Downey ordered the Boeing 737 to fly to the French city of Le Touquet and held the 113 people on board hostage, demanding publication of his manifesto, and for Pope John ...
See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Books in Canada First Novel Award: W.D. Valgardson, Gentle Sinners; Gerald Lampert Award: Elizabeth Allan, The Shored Up House; Marian Engel Award: Pat Lowther Award: M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
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