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Jan 18, 1981 - Iran accepted a US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets. Jan 21, 1981 - Hostages set free from Terhan. 52 hostages kept for 444 days in captivity. |
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Feb 5, 1981 - A military jury in North Carolina convicted Marine Pvt. 1st Class Robert Garwood (Indiana) of collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Vietnam. |
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March 30, 1981 - John W. Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Pres. Ronald Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel. Press Sec. James Brady took a bullet as did Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer. |
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April 8, 1981 - Gen. Omar N. Bradley died in New York City at age 88. April 24, 1981 - The IBM Personal Computer was introduced. It used software from a corporation called Microsoft. |
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May 13, 1981 - John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. The shots hit the pope's hand and penetrated his abdomen. John Paul forgave Agca 4 days later. |
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June 5, 1981 - The Federal Centers for Disease Control published the first report of a mysterious outbreak of a sometimes fatal pneumonia among gay men. The syndrome was named Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1982. Within 10 years the disease killed 110,000 Americans. People infected with HIV came to be defined as having AIDS when their immune system became so weak that they got one of 26 specific illnesses including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pneumonia, brain infections and some other cancers. June 7, 1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq at Osirak, Iraq, before it went into operation, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons. |
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Aug 3, 1981 - U.S. air traffic controllers (PATCO) went on strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired. Most of the 13,000 controllers defied Reagan's order to return to work within 48 hours and were fired. Aug 5, 1981 - Student and alleged assailant in stabbing incident at Job Corps to be moved out of program. |
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Sept 1, 1981 - Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolph Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76. |
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Oct 6, 1981 - Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat was killed by an assassin at the parade ground of Nasser City by Islamic fundamentalists during a ceremony commemorating the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. |
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