WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1981
Find out what all happened September to December 1981

Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. (14. October 1981)

Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. (21. September 1981)

Belize joins the United Nations. (25. September 1981)

A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. (31. December 1981)

Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board. (1. December 1981)

Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights. (14. December 1981)

Abolition of capital punishment in France. (9. October 1981)

El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War. (11. December 1981)

American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. (17. December 1981)

A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing. (15. December 1981)

The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. (27. October 1981)

Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. (15. September 1981)

The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. (15. September 1981)

Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park. (19. September 1981)

Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. (11. November 1981)

Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated. (6. October 1981)

Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions. (28. November 1981)

Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall[disambiguation needed ] of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. (14. October 1981)

A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko. (1. September 1981)

Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom. (1. November 1981)