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1981 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1981 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1981

• January 8, 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
• January 19, 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• January 28, 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• February 5, 1981 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• February 8, 1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• March 1, 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• April 9, 1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• July 17, 1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England.
• October 14, 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
• December 11, 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Who Were Born On 1981?

• January 6, 1981 – Asante Samuel, American football player
• January 7, 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
• February 10, 1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer-songwriter
• February 20, 1981 – Chris Thile, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers)
• April 1, 1981 – Aslı Bayram, German model and actress, Miss Germany 2005
• June 7, 1981 – Larisa Oleynik, American actress
• August 15, 1981 – Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
• August 20, 1981 – Craig Ochs, American football player
• October 11, 1981 – Beau Brady, Australian actor
• October 28, 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English-Scottish footballer