Inspired by my sisters birthday post last month, and in the interest of showing the events that shaped my life, here is the first of many, many parts of the world history of my life. It will higlight the mundane to the historical to the important but insignifigant.
July 15, 1981 - I am Born
July 16, 1981 - Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
July 17, 1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
July 18, 1981 - Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
July 19, 1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
July 20, 1981 - Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
July 21, 1981 - Pope makes Television address to the sick gathered in the Grotto of Lourdes
July 22, 1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
July 23, 1981 - Canadian film Gas released about a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise.
July 24, 1981 - John Trusscot Haynes goes missing
July 25, 1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
July 26, 1981 - NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
July 27, 1981 - William Wyler, US director (Ben Hur), dies
July 28, 1981 - Celebrity male model Jo In Sung born.
July 29, 1981- Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
July 30, 1981 - Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
July 31, 1981 - 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
August
August 1, 1981 - MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
August 2, 1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
August 3, 1981 - France performs nuclear test
August 4, 1981 - Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission
August 5, 1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work
August 6, 1981 - Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st « champs
August 7, 1981 - The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication
August 8, 1981 - Toronto Blue Jays purchased Juan Berenguer from the Kansas City Royals.
August 9, 1981 - NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
August 10, 1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
August 11, 1981 - James Holtzier Born
August 12, 1981 - The original IBM PC released in the United States.
August 13, 1981 - Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
August 14, 1981 - Karl B”hm, Austria conductor, dies at 86
August 15, 1981 - Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
August 16, 1981 - Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
August 17, 1981 - Robert Russell Bennett, US composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87
August 18, 1981 - Gulf of Sidra incident (1981). Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two US fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroyed the Libyan fighters.
August 19, 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female US Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor
August 20, 1981 - Bruce Springsteen Plays Sports Arena in Las Angeles, CA
August 21, 1981 - An American Werewolf in London released. Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
August 22, 1981 - Philip and Dale Brown wed.
August 23, 1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
August 24, 1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
August 25, 1981 - Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
August 26, 1981 - Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
August 27, 1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
August 28, 1981 - South African troops invade Angola
August 29, 1981 - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
August 30, 1981 - Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY at 89
August 31,1981 - A bomb explodes at the US Army base in Ramstein, West Germany injuring 20 people
(no, I'm not especially obsessed with baseball it just seems to be the only thing that happens every day)
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Very interesting...some questions come up...
ReplyDeleteWhat did the Poland Communist party select their ex-party leader to do?? It just says that they select him.
Ronald Reagan was named the Greatest American when the US held their contest...obviously those 11,359 people didn't vote for him.
Does Fiji just suck at soccer or was their goalie just asleep that game??
ronald reagan being named the greatest american doesn't actually make him so, i mean, the same people who voted for that likely voted bush back in...if anything, it only solidifies the stupidity of the generally ignorant american public...
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