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| 1981 |
| | | The Kremlin appoints a general, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as prime minister of Poland | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Henry and Jane Fonda, father and daughter, star with Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism | |
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| 1981 |
| | | President Reagan is shot outside a hotel in Washington by John W. Hinckley Jr, but survives | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Veteran Communist leader Deng Xiaoping secures his position as the real power in China's government | |
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| 1981 |
| | | War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Francçois Mitterrand defeats Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the French presidential election | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Australian entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch buys Britain's establishment newspaper, The Times, and its related titles | |
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