4.22.81: part 1981: things that happened that year I was born

• unknown date - British post-punk jazz fusion band Rip Rig & Panic (featuring Neneh Cherry) is formed.
• 1/20 - Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter as President of the United States of America. Minutes after Reagan becomes president, Iran releases 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days- Iran hostage crisis ends.
• 1/20 - Comedian Andy Kaufman ruins sketches and starts a brawl live on the air during ABC's "Fridays".
• 2/4 - Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Norway's first female Prime Minister.
• unknown date - President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.
• 3/1 - IRA member Bobby Sands begins hunger strike in HM Maze prison, Northern Ireland. He dies on May 5.
• 3/30 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., whose family had connections with the vice president. Two police officers and James Brady are also wounded.
• 4/18 - A Minor League baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning was not played until June 23rd).
• 5/11 - The first performance of the history-making musical, "Cats".
• 5/13 - Pope John Paul II is shot at and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience.
• 5/22 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is imprisoned for life for 13 counts of murder.
• 6/2 - The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention report that five gay men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
• 6/2 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sargeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

4.22.81: part 4.22: things that happened the day I was born

• 1724 - Immanuel Kant is born.
• 1870 - Vladimir Lenin is born.
• 1937 - Jack Nicholson is born.
• 1946 - John Waters is born.
• 1959 - Ryan Stiles is born.

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