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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.
August 19: Gulf of Sidra incident. August 1 – MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States. August 5 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. August 7 – The Washington Star ceases publication after 128 years.
June 21, 1981. Superman II. $14,100,523. Superman II had the highest weekend debut of all-time beating the record of $11.9 million set by Star Trek: The Motion Picture. [32][33] 26. June 28, 1981. $10,765,687. Superman II becomes the first film to have more than one weekend with a gross over $10 million.
Best Foreign Language Film. Chariots of Fire. N/A. Mephisto. Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland. Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, W. Germany.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 7 Scream: Cal-Com: Byron Quisenberry (director/screenplay); Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Alvy Moore, Bobby Diamond, Woody Strode, Ann Bronston, Julie Marine, Nancy St. Marie, Joseph Alvarado, John Nowak, Joe Allaine, Cynthia Faria, Bella Bluck, Dee Cooper, Bob Macgonigal, Gino Difirelli, Gregg Palmer
Billboard. Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1981. "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes was the number one song of 1981. Three songs by John Lennon appear on the Year-End Hot 100, charting posthumously after his murder in late 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981. [1][2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition ...
February 9 – Bill Haley, rock and roll pioneer, 55 (heart attack) February 15. Mike Bloomfield, blues guitarist, 37 (accidental drug overdose) Karl Richter, German organist and conductor, 54. February 19 – Olive Gilbert, actress and singer, 82. February 21 – Ron Grainer, electronic music pioneer and composer, 58.
On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as Reagan was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton hotel. Hinckley believed the attack would impress the actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic ...