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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
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Historical Events Of 1981
- February 5, 1981 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 30, 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Another two people are wounded at the same time.
- May 26, 1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
- May 31, 1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
- August 3, 1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
- September 15, 1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- October 6, 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
- 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.
- November 1, 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 28, 1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
Who Were Born On 1981?
- March 10, 1981 – Gabriela Voleková, Slovak tennis player
- June 1, 1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- June 3, 1981 – Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
- June 10, 1981 – Jonathan Bennett, American actor and producer
- July 20, 1981 – Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
- August 25, 1981 – Rachel Bilson, American actress
- August 29, 1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
- September 4, 1981 – Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress (Destiny’s Child)
- September 5, 1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
- October 3, 1981 – Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer