1981?
I was but a wee pup with a girlfriend and all. Leah. (Who'd have thought we’d stop talking, just lately, we were the loves of each other’s lives once, but that is a story for another time) We were tentatively experimenting with each other in 1981.
It was the year of the first DeLorean
Ronald Regan is shot in the chest
Pope John Paul is shot entering St Peter's Square
The Pace Shuttle Columbia returns to earth as the first reusable space ship
Bucks Fizz wins the European song contest with Making your mind up
Tohui The Panda is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City
Of course, the vigil mary appears, this time in Yugoslavia
Prince Charles married Diana Spencer
Mark David Chapman is sentenced to life in prison for murdering John Lennon
France abolishes capital punishment
The Rolling Stones begin their Tattoo You concert in New York
The Boeing 767 makes its first flight
The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders
Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Raiders of the lost ark
In January, Nick Rock becomes the first AIDS death in New York
In June, 5 otherwise Healthy gay men start presenting in hospitals with carinii pneumonia.
Rick Wellikoff 1980: Rick Wellikoff, Brooklyn school-teacher.
Jack Nau
Donald Krintzman
Jerry Green
Michael Maletta
Paul Graham
Harry Blumenthal
Stephen Sperry
Brian O'Hara
Jeffrey Croland
David Jackson
Tony Rappa
Robert Christian
Ron Doud
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