May 1981 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
• 02 May 1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
• 03 May 1981 Can-Can closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 04 May 1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
• 05 May 1981 Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and elected member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, dies aged 27 while on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• 06 May 1981 Inacent Black opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
• 08 May 1981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, one short of record.
• 09 May 1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx Historian
• 10 May 1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament.
• 12 May 1981 Lena Horne: Lady, Music opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 performances
• 13 May 1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II.
• 14 May 1981 35th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2.
• 15 May 1981 George Harrison releases All Those Years Ago in the UK
• 16 May 1981 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
• 17 May 1981 Inacent Black closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
• 20 May 1981 Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam.
• 21 May 1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat the Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
• 22 May 1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth.
• 23 May 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage.
• 24 May 1981 Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
• 25 May 1981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
• 26 May 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14.
• 27 May 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
• 29 May 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 30 May 1981 Nightline extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week
• 31 May 1981 Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship.

Famous Birthday

• Iker Casillas

  Soccer Player.

• Joseph Morgan (actor)
• Craig David

  Pop Singer.

• Sunny Leone

  Canadian-American model actress director and producer.

• Rami Malek

  American actor.

• Stephen Amell

  TV Actor.

• Zara Phillips

  British royal family, the daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.

• Belladonna (actress)
• Devendra Banhart

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss).

• Danielle Fishel

  American actress.

• Myriam Abel
• Georges St-Pierre

  MMA Fighter.

• French presidential election 1974
• Vincent Clerc
• Emilie Minatchy (Star Academy)
• Farrah Franklin

  American singer (former member of Destiny's Child).

• Patrice Evra

  Soccer Player.

• Jamie-Lynn Sigler

  American actress and singer.

• Amina (Star Academy)
• Laura Sánchez (model)
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Famous Deaths

• Bob Marley

  Jamaican reggae singer, song writer, musician, and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim.

• Bob Marley

  Jamaican reggae singer, song writer, musician, and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim.

• Bobby Sands

  Irish Republican Army activist, dies in his 66th day of hunger strike (born 1954).

• William Saroyan

  American writer of short stories, novels and plays who achieved immediate fame in 1934 with a short story.

• Mary Lou Williams

  Black musician, dies at 71 in Durham, North Carolina.

• Jack Warner [Waters]

  Actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84.

• Carl Weinrich

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Hugo Freidhofer

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Benjamin H Sheares

  President of Singapore, dies.

• Jeannette Ridlon Piccard

  first US woman free balloon pilot, dies.

• Stefan Wyszynski

  Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (Born 1901).

• Ziaur Rahmen

  President of Bangladesh, is assassinated by a group of rebel officers.

• Uri Zvi Grinberg

  Israeli poet and journalist (Born 1896).

• Patsy O'Hara

  Irish hunger striker (Born 1957).

• Raymond McCreesh

  Irish hunger striker (Born 1957).

• Rayner Heppenstall

  British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.

• Rosa Ponselle

  US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at age 84.

• Gene Green

  American baseball player (Born 1933).

• Ernie Freeman

  American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001).

• Fredric Warburg

  British publisher and author (Born 1898).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five)
2. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
3. Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two Of Us
4. Smokey Robinson - Being With You
5. Stars On 45 - Medley

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
2. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver
3. Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
4. Starsound - Stars On 45
5. Stevie Wonder - Lately