Sunday
1981-04-12
Events[]
First Shuttle launch Columbia 1981
- Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-1, is launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The maiden voyage occurs 20 years after Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft.
Radio / charts[]
- Radio: BBC Radio One, 5 pm - Top 40 introduced by Tony Blackburn [1]. [1]. Featuring:
- Ultravox - Slow Motion (40, NE)
- Keith Marshall - Only Crying (39, NE)
- David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards (32)
- PIL - Flowers of Romance (31, NE)
- Spandau Ballet - Musclebound (29, NE)
- Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (19, NE)
- Roxy Music - Jealous Guy (18)
- Visage - Mind of a Toy (16)
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Dave Stewart with Colin Blunstone (13)
- The Jacksons - Can You Feel It (11)
- Hazel O'Connor - D-Days (10)
- Toyah - It's a Mystery (Four from Toyah EP) (8)
- Linx - Intuition (7)
- Landscape - Einstein a Go Go (5)
- Kim Wilde - Kids in America (4)
- Shakin' Stevens - This Ol House (1)