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The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was elected president of Iran with 16,007,972 votes out of 16,846,996 cast. Education minister Ali-Akbar Parvaresh placed second. [6]U.S. president Ronald Reagan announced his plans to resurrect the B-1 bomber program that had been scrapped by President Carter, with 100 of the planes to be built by 1987, and another plan to deploy 100 MX missiles.
October 4 – Curtis Deloatch, football player; October 5 Jeanette Antolin, gymnast; Isaiah Ekejiuba, Nigerian-born football player; Robert Drysdale, Brazilian-born mixed martial artist; October 7 Dria, singer/songwriter; Austin Eubanks, motivational speaker (d. 2019) October 8 – Brett Dietz, football player and coach; October 9 Zachery Ty ...
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.
Pages in category "October 1981 events" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Murder of Tina Harmon; O.
On 6 October 1981, Field Marshal Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1]
Pages in category "October 1981 events in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft is relying on an old radio transmitter.
October 30 – President Reagan nominates Francis Terry McNamara for Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, Benjamin F. Baer for Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission, Warner M. Depuy for Alternate Federal member of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Charles L. Hardwick ...