Continuing my birthday theme for today, I wanted to take a second and see what events and facts I could find on the year I was born, 1981. In case you're wondering I was indeed a child of the eighties in which I rocked the mullet and MC Hammer parachute pants.
- France abolishes capital punishment.
- Sandra Day O'Connor takes a seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The Boeing 767 takes its first flight.
- MTV is launched.
- Major League Baseball goes on strike.
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest in Washington D.C. by John Hinckley.
- Eli Manning, Mike Jones, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Hudson and Britney Spears were born.
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