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The following events occurred in April 1981: April 1, 1981 (Wednesday) The ... on the April 12, 1961, liftoff of Vostok 1. ...
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year ... in the Gregorian calendar; 263 days remain until the end of the year. Events ... 1981 – The first launch of a Space ...
April 1981 in the United Kingdom (1 C, 3 P) April 1981 in the United States (1 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 30 January 2025, at 05:29 (UTC). Text is available ...
April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot: Rioters in south London, UK, throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops. [15] April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia, with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a crewed reusable spacecraft ...
April 12 – Joe Louis, African American heavyweight boxer (b. 1914) April 15 – John Thach, naval aviator and admiral (b. 1905) April 26 Jim Davis, television actor (b. 1909) Madge Evans, actress (b. 1909) April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916) April 28 – Cliff Battles, American footballer (Boston ...
Pages in category "April 1981 in the United States" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
It's difficult to imagine life today without computers, but the personal computer was barely a reality just 33 years ago. On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced their first PC model, also known as ...
The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, [1] and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975.