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The Nation 1981
Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent
Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon Mark is sentenced to 20 years to life
Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
Nobel prizes 1981
Physics – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn
Chemistry – Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
Medicine – Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel
Literature – Elias Canetti
Peace – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Economics – James Tobin
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"What had begun as Poland's year of liberty ended dramatically in violence, bloodshed and repression. The beleaguered government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, pushed to the wall by Walesa's challenging Solidarity union, confronted with total economic collapse, and pressured by the furious Soviets, struck back in the classic Communist fashion. Its minions came for Walesa at 3 a.m. at his apartment in Gdansk, the gray Baltic seaport whose windswept shipyards had given birth to Solidarity in August 1980. They hustled him abroad a flight to Warsaw and then held him in a government guesthouse south of the city. They cut off communications with the outside world and imposed martial law. While the people slept, olive-drab tanks and armored personnel carriers moved through the snow-filled streets to take up positions in cities and towns across the country." Lech Walesa Time Person of the Year
The World 1981
Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed
Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
The Class of 1981
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