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August 17, 1981 (Monday) [ edit ] The Federal Reserve Bank of New York transferred to the N.V. Settlement Bank of the Netherlands the amount of $2,038,000,000 of Iranian assets to conclude the Algiers Agreement that had been reached in January to end the Iran hostage crisis .
August 17 is the 229th day of the year ... in the Gregorian calendar; 136 days remain until the end of the year ... marks the date of his preface to Missale ...
Autumn amwal / aməwan [3] ( (Ar. le-xrif) – Begins on 17 ghusht (30 August) Winter tagrest (Ar. esh-shita ) - Begins on 16 numbír (29 November) An interesting element is the existing opposition between two 40-day terms, one representing the allegedly coldest part of winter ("The nights", llyali ) and one the hottest period of summer ("The ...
August 12 – The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565. August 19 Gulf of Sidra incident (1981) : Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends 2 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra .
Dates based on 14 equal length sign zodiac used by Schmidt [5] [i] ... Aug 17 – Sep 16: August 24 – September 18: Aug 10 – Sep 16 Virgo: Aug 23 – Sep 22:
1981 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe. [148] 23 Oct 1997 James Ussher: This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6,000 years since creation and therefore the end of the world. [149] 31 Mar 1998 Hon-Ming Chen
The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉. In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster. [1] [2]