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What Happened In May 1981 In History

Historical Events for May, 1981

  • 5th » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger strike or hunger-striking, aged 27.
  • 10th » François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist Party (France) e.g Socialist President of France in the France or French Fifth Republic.
  • 12th » Francis Hughes Hunger strike starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Irish republicanism Republican campaign for political prisoner political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional Irish Republican Army Provisional IRA prisoners.
  • 21st » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Freemasonry known as Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
  • 24th » Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle o
  • 25th » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
  • 26th » Prime Minister of Italy Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the Freemasonry pseudo-masonic lodge Propaganda Due P2 '(Propaganda Due)'.
  • 26th » An Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler known as EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) e.g USS 'Nimitz' (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
  • 31st » The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic Book burning e.g biblioclasm of the twentieth century.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1981

  • 1st » Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
  • 1st » Alexander Hleb, Belarusian footballer
  • 1st » Wes Welker, American football player
  • 2nd » Robert Buckley, American actor
  • 2nd » Chris Kirkland, English footballer
  • 2nd » Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
  • 2nd » Matt Murray, English footballer
  • 2nd » Rina Satō, Japanese voice actress
  • 3rd » U;Nee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2007)
  • 3rd » Charlie Brooks, English-Welsh actress
  • 4th » Dallon Weekes, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Panic! at the Disco)
  • 4th » Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
  • 5th » Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian model
  • 5th » Craig David, English singer-songwriter
  • 5th » Danielle Fishel, American actress
  • 5th » Farid Kamil, Malaysian actor, screenplay writer and film director
  • 6th » Matt Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Evile)
  • 6th » Nick Setta, American-Canadian football player
  • 6th » Edyta Śliwińska, Polish-American dancer
  • 7th » Tim Connolly, American ice hockey player
  • 7th » Monzavous Edwards e.g Rae Edwards, American sprinter
  • 8th » Namosh, German singer and DJ
  • 8th » Stephen Amell, Canadian actor
  • 8th » Ayesha Antoine, English actress
  • 8th » Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
  • 8th » Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler
  • 8th » Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mando Diao)
  • 8th » Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist
  • 8th » John Maine, American baseball player
  • 8th » Yasuko Tajima, Japanese swimmer
  • 8th » Elizabeth Whitmere, Canadian actress
  • 9th » Bill Murphy (baseball) e.g Bill Murphy, American baseball player
  • 9th » Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
  • 9th » You Yokoyama, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight)
  • 10th » Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player
  • 10th » Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
  • 10th » Nicky Whelan, Australian model and actress
  • 11th » Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
  • 11th » Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist
  • 11th » Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player
  • 12th » Hannah Ild, Estonian singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 12th » Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor and singer
  • 12th » Lorena Bernal, Argentinian-Spanish model and actress
  • 12th » Erica Campbell, American model and actress
  • 12th » Rami Malek, American actor
  • 12th » Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
  • 13th » Luciana Berger, English politician
  • 13th » Nicolas Jeanjean, French rugby player
  • 13th » Sunny Leone, Indo-Canadian and American Bollywood actress, businesswoman, model, Penthouse Pet of the Year 2003
  • 13th » Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
  • 13th » Shaun Phillips, American football player
  • 13th » James Yun, American wrestler and actor
  • 14th » Pranav Mistry, Indian computer scientist
  • 15th » Patrice Evra, French footballer
  • 15th » Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
  • 15th » Zara Phillips, English horse rider
  • 15th » Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress and singer
  • 16th » Ricardo Costa (Portuguese footballer) e.g Ricardo Costa, Portuguese footballer
  • 16th » Joseph Morgan (actor) named Joseph Morgan, English actor
  • 16th » Taavi Rähn, Estonian footballer
  • 17th » Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
  • 17th » Lim Jeong-hee, South Korean singer
  • 17th » Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer and actress
  • 17th » Leon Osman, English footballer
  • 17th » Chris Skidmore, English historian and politician
  • 17th » Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
  • 18th » Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
  • 19th » Luciano Figueroa, Argentinian footballer
  • 19th » Yo Gotti, American rapper
  • 19th » Michael Leighton, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 19th » Sina Schielke, German sprinter
  • 19th » Georges St-Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
  • 19th » Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
  • 19th » Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
  • 20th » Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
  • 20th » Sean Conlon, English singer-songwriter (Five (band) or Five)
  • 20th » Morgan Knabe, Canadian swimmer
  • 20th » Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
  • 20th » Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
  • 21st » Craig Anderson (ice hockey) or Craig Anderson, American ice hockey player
  • 21st » Edson Buddle, American soccer player
  • 21st » Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
  • 21st » Maximilian Mutzke, German singer-songwriter
  • 21st » Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
  • 21st » Kaori Shimizu (voice actress) called Kaori Shimizu, Japanese voice actress
  • 22nd » Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
  • 22nd » Lee Bullock, English footballer
  • 22nd » Melissa Gregory, American ice dancer
  • 22nd » Jana Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
  • 22nd » Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer
  • 22nd » Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
  • 23rd » Pierre Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
  • 23rd » Tim Robinson (comedian) e.g Tim Robinson, American actor
  • 23rd » Gwenno Saunders, Welsh singer and dancer (The Pipettes)
  • 24th » Sayaka Ando, Japanese model
  • 24th » Nic Hill, American director and producer
  • 24th » Marketa Janska, Czech model
  • 24th » Andy Lee (comedian) named Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  • 24th » Jerod Mixon, American actor
  • 25th » Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
  • 26th » Robert Copeland, Australian footballer
  • 26th » Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
  • 26th » Jason Manford, English comedian and actor
  • 26th » Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
  • 26th » Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Fray)
  • 26th » Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
  • 27th » Miloy, Angolan footballer
  • 27th » Marcelo Bonan. Brazilian footballer
  • 27th » Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
  • 27th » Alina Cojocaru Romanian ballet dancer
  • 27th » Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
  • 27th » Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
  • 28th » Daniel Cabrera, Dominican-American baseball player
  • 28th » Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player
  • 28th » Adam Green (musician) or Adam Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches)
  • 28th » Victoria Legrand, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Beach House)
  • 28th » Aaron Schock, American politician
  • 29th » Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
  • 29th » Justin Chon, American actor
  • 30th » Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss)
  • 30th » Blake Bashoff, American actor
  • 30th » Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver
  • 30th » Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
  • 30th » Remy Ma, American rapper (Terror Squad (group) named Terror Squad)
  • 30th » Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
  • 30th » Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
  • 31st » Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
  • 31st » Yoon Mi-rae, American-South Korean singer (Uptown (band) or Uptown)
  • 31st » Jake Peavy, American baseball player

Famous Deaths for May 1981

  • 3rd » Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)
  • 4th » C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)
  • 5th » Bobby Sands, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1954)
  • 8th » Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
  • 9th » Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)
  • 9th » Ralph Allen (footballer) known as Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
  • 11th » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • 11th » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945)
  • 16th » Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)
  • 16th » Willy Hartner, German physician and educator (b. 1905)
  • 18th » William Saroyan, American author and playwright (b. 1908)
  • 21st » Raymond McCreesh, Irish activist (b. 1957)
  • 23rd » Gene Green (baseball) known as Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
  • 23rd » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911)
  • 23rd » George Jessel (actor) or George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1898)
  • 23rd » David Lewis (politician) e.g David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
  • 24th » Herbert Müller (racing driver) known as Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
  • 24th » A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1916)
  • 25th » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
  • 28th » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
  • 28th » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
  • 30th » Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
  • 30th » Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
  • 31st » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (b. 1914)

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