30 Year Anniversaries

 Khalil Nasurdin Abdus-Salaam 
 Cleveland Allen
 Danny Anderson
 Gary Bey
 William Biddle 
 John Bushong
 Daniel Cardell
 Steven Corrado
 George Davis
 Salatore DeMarco
 Eugene DiSalvo
 Thomas Esola
 John Forbes 
 Gerald Frail Jr
 Kurt Gilbert
 James Hall
 Dallas Herbert Jr. 
 Willie Jackson 
 John Kellam Jr.
 Joseph Kovatch 
 Theodore Malpezzi 
 Norman Messing 
 Jack Moerder
 Waye Morris
 George Naylor Jr.
 George Paulman Jr. 
 Michael Pozoic
 Michael Reed 
 Timothy Roundtree
 Stephan Ryan
 Constance Seal 
 Francis Serravelli
 Byron Sharpe Jr.
 Charles Tinari 
 Michael Tinari 
 Francis Walsh
 Peter Williamson
  
 
 
The year was 1981
 
Ronald Reagan, President
 
Average Cost of a new house $78,200
 
Average Income per year $21,050
 
Gallon of Gas cost $1.25
 
19 inch Color TV $399.95
 
Year end close Dow Jones Indusrtrial  Average 875
 
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 15.75%
 
Iran releases 52 American hostages who had been held for 444 days
 
President Reagan is shot but survives in Washington D.C.
 
Solidarity protests and strike begin in Poland leading to Marshal Law and eventual outlawing of the Solidarity Party
 
Air Traffic Controllers go on strike President Reagan fires the strikers
 
Muhammad Ali finally retires with a career record 55 wins and 5 defeats
 
IRA member Bobby Sands dies during hunger strike
 
Researchers  find the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic
 
Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles
 
Pope John Paul II is shot but not killed at the Vatican
 
Sandra Day O'Connor is nominated to 1st female U.S. Supreme Justice
 
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated
 
1st American test tube baby is born
 
Scientists indentify the Aids Virus
 
1st flight of U.S. Spaceship Columbia
 
IBM launches 1st PC which uses Microsoft MS DOS