September 1981 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1981 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees
• 03 Sep 1981 Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game
• 04 Sep 1981 Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
• 06 Sep 1981 Bob Lemon becomes the New York Yankees' manager for the second time.
• 07 Sep 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
• 09 Sep 1981 Vernon E Jordan resigns as President of National Urban League
• 10 Sep 1981 Guernica of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
• 11 Sep 1981 2nd government of Agt forms
• 12 Sep 1981 95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova
• 13 Sep 1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins
• 14 Sep 1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
• 15 Sep 1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Laborem exercens against capitalism / marxism
• 16 Sep 1981 1st broadcast of Miami Vice on NBC-TV
• 17 Sep 1981 Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season
• 18 Sep 1981 Assemblee Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• 19 Sep 1981 Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket.
• 20 Sep 1981 Belize declares independence
• 21 Sep 1981 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from the UK
• 24 Sep 1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
• 25 Sep 1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour
• 26 Sep 1981 First flight of the Boeing 767 airliner.
• 27 Sep 1981 Day in Hollywood, A Night.., closes at John Golden New York after 588 performances
• 28 Sep 1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two black joggers in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 29 Sep 1981 US Senate confirms Elizabeth Jones as US Mint chief engraver.
• 30 Sep 1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics.

Famous Birthday

• Beyoncé Knowles
• Serena Williams

  American ranking tennis player in 1998 along with her 15-month older sister, Venus.

• Nicole Richie

  Reality Star.

• Alexis Bledel

  American actress (Gilmore Girls).

• Joanie Dodds

  America's Next Top Model contestant.

• Christina Milian

  American R&B singer and actress.

• Jennifer Hudson

  American singer and actress.

• Natalie Horler

  German singer (Cascada).

• Cytherea (actress)
• Dylan Klebold

  American homicide with his partner, Eric Harris, shooting and bombing Columbine High School.

• Thomas Mege
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas
• Bingbing Fan
• Ashley Roberts

  American singer, dancer & actress (Pussycat Dolls).

• Guillaume Samica
• Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi
• Feliciano López

  Spanish tennis player.

• Julie Gonzalo

  TV Actress.

• Gautier Capuçon
• Rimi Sen

  Indian actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Jacques Lacan

  French psychoanalyst who gained an international reputation as an original interpreter of Sigmund Freud's work.

• Robert Montgomery

  American actor who was on stage and film from the age of 21, as well as being the director and producer of movies and TV.

• Nigel Patrick

  London, England -- Actor / director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold).

• Joseph Yasser

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Hediki Joekawa

  Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74.

• [Walter] Furry Lewis

  Father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack.

• Yasuji Kiyose

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Frank McHugh

  Actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way), dies at 83.

• Sara Haden

  Actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83.

• Tony Aubin

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Coenraad van Emde Boas

  Dutch sexologist, dies at 77.

• Albert Speer in London (born in Mannheim

  Germany); Adolf Hitler's chief architect and the minister of armaments and war production from 1942-1945.

• Alec Waugh

  English writer (Born 1898).

• Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi

  prosecutor-general of Iran, is assassinated.

• William Loeb III

  American newspaper publisher (Born 1905).

• Rafael Mendez

  Mexican trumpet virtuoso (Born 1906).

• Romulo Betancourt

  Venezuelan politician (Born 1908).

• Bill Shankly

  Bill Shankly was a Scottish international footballer and also a famous football manager, notably with Liverpool Football Club.

• Furry Lewis

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981).

• Ann Harding

  American actress and singer (d. 1981).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Diana Ross - Endless Love
2. Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
3. Juice Newton - Queen Of Hearts
4. Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
5. Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
2. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
3. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked On Classics
4. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
5. Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday