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1981 Deep global turmoil and major world events listed
A year end chronicle recounts mass drownings in Brazil and India, coups and uprisings in Iran and Poland, launches and spaceflight milestones, political shifts in Canada Britain and the United States, notable assassinations, executions and protests across multiple nations. The month by month notes cover Marcos, Reagan, Thatcher, Princess Diana, Khomeini, and many others amid 1981 upheavals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario Court of Appeal
Frank Hamata
Albert Gill
Jean Simard
Harold McNamara
Sydney Cooper
Giovanni d’Urso
Red Brigade
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Northern Ireland
County
Tyrone
Ferdinand Marcos
Carter
United States
Iran
Ronald Reagan
Doris Anderson
Canadian Advisory Council On the Status of Women
Lloyd Axworthy
Jiang Qing
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Java Sea
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Ontario
Petro-Canada
Petrofina Canada Ltd
Manitoba Court of Appeal
Gro Harlem Rutland
Peru
Ecuador
Jozef Pinkowski
Jelenia
Telecommunications Workers Union
B.C. Telephone Co
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Poland
Texas Gulf Inc
White Plains
N.Y
Charles Fogarty
Dublin
Reagan
Congress
Spain
Buckingham Palace
Prince Charles
Diana Spencer
Leopoldo Calvo Satalo
Adolfo Suarez
Kerman Province
St. Paul’s
Egypt
Israel
Sinai
Luis Garcia Mega
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
U.S
NDP
Daniel Heap
James Coutts
Trudeau
Laura Sabia
Toronto
Spadina
Kent Commission
Canadian Human Rights Commission
U.S. Navy
Mediterranean
Pentagon
Libya
Michael Devine
Far Eastern Air Transport
Taiwan
McDonald Commission
RCMP
Mohammed Ali Rajai
Mohammed Jawad Bahamar
Clifford Robert Olson
Vancouver
Auckland
N.Z
Moscow
Anwar Sadat
Thunder Bay
Ont
British Liberal Party
Social Democrats
French National Assembly
Amazon River
Belize
General Assembly
United Nations
Tehran
Abadan
Persian Gulf
Iraq
Supreme Court
Canada
Diablo Canyon
San Francisco
International Olympic Committee
Calgary
Maze
Belfast