March 1981 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1981 Sophisticated Ladies opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances
• 02 Mar 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC
• 05 Mar 1981 Bring Back Birdie opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 06 Mar 1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News
• 07 Mar 1981 Bring Back Birdie closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 08 Mar 1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Queensland 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
• 09 Mar 1981 Max Delbrnck, German/US biologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 74 (born 1906).
• 11 Mar 1981 Chile constitution takes effect; military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President for another 8-year term.
• 12 Mar 1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia.
• 13 Mar 1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
• 15 Mar 1981 Broadway Follies opens / closes at Nederlander Theater, New York City
• 17 Mar 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team, forms.
• 18 Mar 1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in one period (they beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4).
• 19 Mar 1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
• 20 Mar 1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor.
• 22 Mar 1981 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
• 23 Mar 1981 US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions.
• 24 Mar 1981 Nightline with Ted Koppel premieres on ABC
• 25 Mar 1981 (to March 26) Bowers and Ruddy Galleries auctions part of the Garrett coin collection.
• 26 Mar 1981 Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
• 27 Mar 1981 John Lennon releases Watching the Wheels in the UK
• 28 Mar 1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 metre (40.18 seconds).
• 29 Mar 1981 Woman of the Year opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
• 30 Mar 1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
• 31 Mar 1981 53rd Academy Awards - Ordinary People, R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win

Famous Birthday

• Julia Stiles

  American actress.

• Bryce Dallas Howard

  American actress.

• LeToya (singer)
• Young Buck

  American rapper.

• Samuel Eto'o

  Cameroonian footballer.

• Ellen Muth

  American actress.

• Robinson Stévenin
• Pauline Lefèvre
• Jay Sean

  British R&B singer.

• Ana Hickmann

  Brazilian supermodel.

• Matthias Schweighöfer
• David Anders

  American actor.

• Kyle Korver

  American basketball player.

• Brice Guyart

  French athlete, fencer, who won a gold medal with the French foil team at the 2000 Olympics and a gold in the individual foil at the 2004...

• Fabian Cancellara

  Swiss professional cyclist.

• Lil Flip

  Rapper.

• Leslie Djhone

  French sprinter.

• Lilou Fogli
• Admiral T
• Vanessa Lee Evigan
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Famous Deaths

• Torin Thatcher

  Actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva).

• Paul Horbiger

  Actor (3rd Man), dies at 86.

• Klaus Grabowski

  Child molester, shot by parent.

• Janear Hines

  Actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30.

• Kiril Kondrashin

  Russian conductor (Born 1914).

• Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin

  Russian conductor/composer, dies at age 67 (born 1914).

• John Gnagy

  artist (Learn to Draw), dies at age 73.

• Cyril Dean Darlington

  biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at age 77.

• Franz Kapus

  Swiss Olympic bobsledder (Born 1909).

• John Knight

  Australian politician (Born 1943).

• Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer

  World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (Born 1900).

• Joseph Henry Woodger

  British theoretical biologist (Born 1894).

• Rene Clair

  French film director (Born 1898).

• James ''Jumbo'' Elliott

  American track coach (Born 1915).

• Eric Williams

  American athlete, pro football player, defensive tackle.

• Paul Dean

  Canadian guitarist (Loverboy and Streetheart).

• Yip Harburg

  American lyricist (Born 1896).

• Mao Dun

  Chinese journalist author and critic (d. 1981).

• Gerry Bertier

  American wheelchair Olympian (Born 1953).

• Odette Barencey

  French film actress (Born 1893).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
2. Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
3. REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
4. Blondie - Rapture
5. John Lennon - Woman

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Ultravox - Vienna
2. Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
3. Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddup You Face
4. Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
5. John Lennon - Woman