236 notable events from 1981. Page 2 of 3.
- Imaichi four-person murder and assault case
Mar 29, 1981 · Japan
- Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206
Mar 28, 1981 · Thailand
- 1981 Moroccan riots
Jun 20, 1981 · Morocco
- Wilbert Lee Evans
Jan 27, 1981 · —
- Andrew Dawson (murderer)
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 2010 · —
- 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut
Dec 15, 1981 · Lebanon
- Calama case
Mar 9, 1981 · Chile
- 1981 West Bend tornado
Apr 4, 1981 · United States
- Brandon Tholmer
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1983 · United States
- Raymond Lee Stewart
Jan 27, 1981–Feb 2, 1981 · United States
- Dámaso Rodríguez Martín
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1991 · Spain
- Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901
May 7, 1981 · Argentina
- Manuel Machado Alvarez
Dec 27, 1981 · —
- Stena Seaspread diving accident
Jan 21, 1981 · United Kingdom
- Aeroméxico Flight 230
Jul 27, 1981 · Mexico
- Herbert Coddington
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1987 · United States
- Indian Airlines Flight 423
Sep 29, 1981 · Pakistan
- Murder of Carolyn Eaton
Dec 25, 1981 · United States
- Aeroméxico Flight 110
Nov 8, 1981 · Mexico
- James Otto Earhart
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1987 · United States
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326
Mar 2, 1981 · Pakistan
- 1981 anti-Tamil pogrom
Aug 1, 1981 · Sri Lanka
- Setiabudi 13 case
Nov 23, 1981 · Indonesia
- Murder of Marion Crofts
Jun 6, 1981 · United Kingdom
- John Martin Crawford
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1992 · Canada
- Jaturun Siripongs
Dec 15, 1981 · United States
- Joseph Nissensohn
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1989 · United States
- Dudgeon v United Kingdom
Jan 1, 1981 · —
- Kidnapping of Johannes Erlemann
Mar 6, 1981–Mar 19, 1981 · Germany
- 1981 Ghanaian coup d'état
Dec 31, 1981 · Ghana
- 1981 Hama massacre
Apr 1981 · Syrian Arab Republic
- Oregon Museum Tavern shooting
May 7, 1981 · United States
- S-363 submarine incident
Nov 6, 1981 · Sweden
- Bartolomeo Gagliano
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1989 · —
- Somali Airlines Flight 40
Jul 20, 1981 · Somalia
- LOT Polish Airlines Flight 702
Aug 22, 1981 · Poland
- 1981 Antwerp synagogue bombing
Oct 20, 1981 · Belgium
- Conflagration of catering combinate "Kaskada"
Apr 27, 1981 · Poland
- 1981 Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crash
Jul 31, 1981 · Panama
- Dan-Air Flight 240
Jun 26, 1981 · United Kingdom
- 1981 Turkish consulate attack in Paris
Sep 24, 1981 · France
- 1981 Bahraini coup attempt
1981 · Bahrain
- 1981 Heiss Island Il-14 crash
Feb 12, 1981 · Russian Federation
- Australian meat substitution scandal
1981 · Australia
- Louisville sewer explosions
Feb 13, 1981 · United States
- 1981 Barrington Tops Cessna 210 disappearance
Aug 9, 1981 · Australia
- Tracy Petrocelli
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1982 · —
- Michael Darnell Harris
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1982 · —
- Glasdrumman ambush
Jul 17, 1981 · United Kingdom
- 1981 Zheleznogorsk mid-air collision
Sep 18, 1981 · Russian Federation
- Pata Island massacre
Feb 12, 1981 · Philippines
- William Scott Smith
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1984 · —
- Murder of Laura Yap Fui Kheng
May 4, 1981 · Malaysia
- LOT Flight 691
Mar 26, 1981 · Poland
- Murder of Donald Lehman
Jan 8, 1981 · United States
- US submarine hit-and-run incident
Apr 9, 1981 · Japan
- Fratelli Ballarin Stadium fire
Jun 7, 1981 · Italy
- Chelsea Barracks bombing
Oct 10, 1981 · United Kingdom
- Marian apparitions of Kibeho
Nov 28, 1981–Nov 28, 1989 · Rwanda
- Harbor Cay condominium collapse
Mar 27, 1981 · United States
- Wilbur Lee Jennings
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1984 · United States
- Piersonstraat riots
Feb 1981 · Netherlands
- Osieck rail crash
Jun 4, 1981 · Poland
- Brokdorf large-scale demonstration
Feb 28, 1981 · Germany
- 1981 Entumbane uprising
Feb 8, 1981–Feb 12, 1981 · Zimbabwe
- 1981 Gambian coup attempt
Jul 30, 1981–Aug 4, 1981 · Gambia
- Altnaveigh landmine attack
May 19, 1981 · United Kingdom
- Aeroflot Flight 498
Jun 14, 1981 · Russian Federation
- Beoria Simmons
May 18, 1981–Mar 12, 1983 · United States
- 1981 Bristow Helicopters Westland Wessex crash
Aug 13, 1981 · United Kingdom
- 1981 Chengdu–Kunming rail crash
Jul 9, 1981 · China
- 1981 Erfurt-Bischleben rail accident
Jun 11, 1981 · Germany
- Sinking of El Karina
Nov 14, 1981 · Colombia
- Malév Flight 641
Oct 21, 1981 · Czechia
- 1981 Central African Republic coup d'état
Sep 1, 1981 · Central African Republic
- 1981 Vienna synagogue attack
Aug 29, 1981 · Austria
- 1981 Ajaccio Airport bombing
Apr 16, 1981 · France
- Edifício Grande Avenida fire
Feb 14, 1981 · Brazil
- Attacks on shipping in Lough Foyle (1981–82)
Feb 6, 1981 · Ireland
- Murder of Charles Armstrong
Aug 16, 1981 · Ireland
- 1981 Thai military rebellion
Apr 1, 1981 · Thailand
- 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash
Sep 29, 1981 · Iran
- Seer Green rail crash
Dec 11, 1981 · United Kingdom
- 1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakes
Feb 24, 1981 · Greece
- 1981-1982 Argentina crizis
1981–1982 · Argentina
- Gukpung 81
May 28, 1981–Jun 1, 1981 · South Korea
- Oga Wakimoto incident
Aug 5, 1981 · Japan
- Harrington Street massacre
Jan 15, 1981 · Bolivia
- Bombing of Lebanon (July 1981)
Jun 17, 1981 · Lebanon
- Bangalore circus fire
Feb 7, 1981 · India
- Kidnapping of Ciro Cirillo
Apr 27, 1981–Jul 25, 1981 · Italy
- Assassination of Giuseppe De Luca
Jul 31, 1981 · Italy
- 1981 Azbakiyah bombing
Nov 29, 1981 · Syrian Arab Republic
- Shipwreck of the Novo Amapá
Jan 6, 1981 · Brazil
- 1981 Mauritanian coup attempt
Mar 16, 1981 · Mauritania
- Yangquan theatre bombing
Jul 22, 1981 · China
- Hijacking of the Aeropesca Curtiss C-46
Oct 21, 1981 · Colombia
- Majid Salek Mahmoudi
Jan 1, 1981–Jan 1, 1985 · Iran
- Brandsen rail disaster
Mar 8, 1981 · Argentina
- 1981 San Carlos tornado
May 18, 1981 · Chile