August 1981 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
• 02 Aug 1981 Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
• 03 Aug 1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
• 04 Aug 1981 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission
• 05 Aug 1981 Federal government began firing striking air traffic controllers
• 06 Aug 1981 Crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
• 07 Aug 1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• 09 Aug 1981 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
• 10 Aug 1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
• 12 Aug 1981 IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
• 13 Aug 1981 Last broadcast of Waltons on CBS-TV
• 14 Aug 1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott
• 15 Aug 1981 Botham scores a century in 86 balls vs. Australia at Old Trafford
• 16 Aug 1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
• 18 Aug 1981 My Fair Lady opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
• 19 Aug 1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
• 24 Aug 1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
• 25 Aug 1981 Jeff Schwartz sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09).
• 26 Aug 1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
• 27 Aug 1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
• 28 Aug 1981 Sebastian Coe of the UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33
• 29 Aug 1981 28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
• 30 Aug 1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
• 31 Aug 1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser

Famous Birthday

• Roger Federer

  Swiss-born professional athlete, a tennis phenomenon who won five consecutive Wimbledon championships, 2003-2007 inclusive, before he was 26...

• Meghan Markle

  TV Actress.

• Rachel Bilson

  American actress.

• Chad Michael Murray
• Meagan Good

  American actress.

• Ben Barnes

  English actor.

• Djibril Cissé

  French football (soccer) player who plays as a striker for SC Bastia in Ligue 1. He played for the France national team (2002–2011).

• Jesse Williams (actor)
• Marques Houston

  American singer (IMx) and actor.

• Emilie Dequenne
• Travis McCoy
• Lucie Décosse

  French judoka.

• Hugues Duboscq
• Patxi (Star Academy)
• Natsumi Abe

  Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume Def.

• Maria Ylipää
• Ashley Parker Angel
• Mark Bautista
• Jay Ryan (actor)
• Vanessa Amorosi

  Australian singer and songwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• Melvyn Douglas

  American actor (Born 1901).

• Lowell Thomas

  American news journalist, a radio commentator, world traveler and author.

• Mohammad Javad Bahonar

  Prime Minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb.

• Joseph H Hirschhorn

  US art collector / founder H Museum, dies at 82.

• Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi

  Composer, dies at 49.

• Robert Peci

  Italian Brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered.

• Roger Nash Baldwin

  founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (Born 1884).

• Mohammad Ali Rajai

  president of Iran, and Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, are assassinated by a bomb.

• Joan Edwards

  singer ( Show), dies at age 62.

• Michael Devine

  1981 Irish hunger strike figure (Born 1954).

• Lee Elhardt Hays

  American folksinger (Born 1914).

• Bela Guttman

  Hungarian footballer (Born 1900).

• Karl Bohm

  Austrian musician and conductor who was noted for his interpretation of Mozart's, Wagner's and Richard Strauss' operas.

• Valeri Kharlamov

  Soviet ice hockey player (Born 1948).

• Paddy Chayefsky

  Screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58.

• Vera-Ellen

  Actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town), dies of cancer at 55.

• Lee Hays

  American singer-songwriter (The Weavers and Almanac Singers) (d. 1981).

• Mohammad-Ali Rajai

  Iranian politician 2nd President of Iran (d. 1981).

• Dudley Nourse

  South African cricketer (Born 1910).

• Jessie Matthews

  London, England -- Actress (Gangway, First a Girl).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
2. Diana Ross - Endless Love
3. Air Supply - The One That You Love
4. Joey Scarbury - Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)
5. Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Specials - Ghost Town
2. Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
3. Starsound - Stars On 45 (Volume 2)
4. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked On Classics
5. Bad Manners - Can Can