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year	1981
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day	8
event	Pirates of Penzance opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
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1/1 - Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title

1/1 - Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

1/1 - International Year for the Disabled begins

1/1 - Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing

1/1 - Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors

1/2 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)

1/2 - Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brickp~ WI v Pakistan

1/3 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)

1/3 - Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG

1/3 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34p~ Austin Carr

1/3 - 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)

1/4 - Frankenstein opens & closes on Broadway

1/4 - Peter Pan closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances

1/4 - 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)

1/4 - "British police arrest Peter Sutcliffep~ the ""Yorkshire Ripper"""

1/5 - Nightline with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins

1/5 - "British police arrest Peter Sutcliffep~ a truck driver later convicted of ""Yorkshire Ripper"" murders of 13 women"

1/6 - 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals

1/8 - Pirates of Penzance opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances

1/8 - India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia

1/8 - Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)

1/9 - Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal

1/10 - "El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens ""general offensive"""

1/10 - John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed recordp~ 9 h 21 m

1/11 - Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarcticap~ reaching Scott base after 75 days (2p~500 miles)

1/11 - Palau adopts constitution

1/11 - Tintypes closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances

1/12 - Dynasty with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV

1/12 - -35q*F (-37q*C)p~ Chesterp~ Massachusetts (state record)

1/12 - Dynastyp~ a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallasp~ premieres on ABC

1/13 - Barbara Sonntagp~ Colop~ crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour

1/13 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov

1/13 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals

1/14 - FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish

1/15 - Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1/15 - Hill Street Blues premieres on NBC-TV

1/16 - Boxer Leon Spinks is muggedp~ his assailants even took his gold teeth

1/16 - "John Lennon releases ""Woman"" in UK"

1/16 - Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband

1/16 - Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg

1/17 - Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege

1/18 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets

1/18 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity

1/19 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages

1/20 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed

1/20 - Adm Stansfield Turnerp~ USN (Ret)p~ ends term as 12th director of CIA

1/20 - Frank C Carluccip~ ends term as deputy director of CIA

1/20 - Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0

1/20 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President

1/21 - Shakespeare's Cabaret opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances

1/21 - Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train

1/22 - "O A ""Bum"" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints"

1/22 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th

1/23 - 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente California)

1/23 - Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin

1/23 - Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games

1/23 - Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi

1/24 - Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide

1/25 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1/25 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death

1/25 - Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eaglesp~ 27-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Jim Plunkettp~ Oaklandp~ QB

1/26 - Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval

1/28 - 5 O'Clock Girl opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances

1/28 - William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987)

1/28 - Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bayp~ Texasp~ spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision

1/29 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 millionp~ & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million

1/30 - 8th American Music Award: Barbra Streisand & Kenny Rogers win

1/31 - The Tide Is High by Blondie hits #1

1/31 - 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary Peoplep~ Coal Miner's Daughter

1/31 - Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)

1981-1-8

Pirates of Penzance opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances