Born in 1981

£1 in 1981 would be worth approximately £4.80 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1981 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 30 March – Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire released.
• 4 April – Bucks Fizz representing the United Kingdom win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up.
• 10 April – Bobby Sands, an IRA member on hunger strike in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland, is elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in a by election.
• 11 May – The first performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats takes place at the New London Theatre.
• 24 June – The twelfth James Bond film – For Your Eyes Only – is released in UK cinemas. It is the fifth of seven films to star Roger Moore as James Bond and the final Bond film to be solely distributed by United Artists.
• 8 September – The first episode of the long-running and iconic sitcom Only Fools and Horses is broadcast on BBC1.
• 21 September – Belize is granted independence
• 1 November – The West Indian island nation of Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent of the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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