3rd » The 1981 Irish hunger strike known as hunger strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
6th » Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is Assassination of Anwar Sadat called murdered by Islamic extremists.
14th » Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshalldisambiguation needed known as date=May 2012 of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
14th » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
21st » Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
22nd » The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968) known as Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its Strike action known as strike the previous August.
27th » The Soviet Union known as Soviet submarine Soviet submarine S-363 or 'U 137' runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.