Timeline Thursday 1 January 1981

Events on Thursday 1 January 1981 9

• 1981 1981: Nelson Piquet Brabham Brazilian Piquet won the first of his three titles in a tight battle with Carlos Reutemann and Jacques Laffite.
• 1981 – 1982 Arthur Won an Academy Award for Best That You Can Do, the theme from the film Arthur, co-written with then-wife Carole Bayer Sager.
• 1981 Austrian Kammersangerin Named Austrian Kammersangerin, one of the highest honours for opera singers in Austria, by the Vienna State Opera.
• 1981 French Citizenship Became a French citizen, eventually choosing to write exclusively in French.
• 1981 Greece joins the European Economic Community Tenth member state accedes on 1 January 1981 Greece formally became the tenth member state of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1981. Its accession followed years of association agreements and political negotiation after the restoration of Greek democracy in 1974. It was the first Mediterranean and Balkan country to join the bloc.
• 1981 Independent Syndication When the Washington Star folded, chose to work independently through Universal Press Syndicate rather than join another newspaper — the first major political cartoonist of the twentieth century to work without editorial oversight from a home publication.
• 1981 Intrusions — First Novel Published her first novel, Intrusions, an experimental metafictional work in the style of John Barth. It differed markedly from the naturalistic fiction she would later become known for.
• 1981 Joined MIT Recruited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the Center for Cancer Research and would spend the rest of his career.
• 1981 South Shore Cultural Center Jazzfest Founded the Jazzfest at the South Shore Cultural Center, creating another vital platform for jazz performance on Chicago's South Side.