August 1981

The following events occurred in August 1981:

August 1, 1981 (Saturday)

  • MTV, the Music Television cable network, went on the air at 12:01 AM from Fort Lee, New Jersey on cable systems in the United States, with John Lack's introductory words, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll." Initially, MTV showed music videos 24 hours a day. The very first selection was "Video Killed the Radio Star" from Buggles. Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" was the second. It was not until March 10, 1983, however, that MTV played a video from a non-white artist in heavy rotation for the first time. When it launched, MTV reached 800,000 subscribers and cable television was still in only 25% of American homes.
  • Abu Daoud, the PLO terrorist who had overseen the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes was shot five times at close range while sitting in the coffee shop of the Victoria Hotel in Warsaw.
  • A freight train derailment near San Luis Potosi ruptured a tanker car carrying chlorine gas, killing 29 people and sending another 1,000 to the hospital.
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    August 1980

    by: Trophy Scars

    I fell in love at second sight
    At the end of the night
    I told you "You’re beautiful."
    Yeah, I wanted to
    Days are getting colder, felt the winter strangle the fall
    Your birthday then Christmas, another year has come and gone
    Then it was spring and I couldn’t wait to take you out dancing
    The sickness, the darkness consumed my forsaken soul
    Then it was June, but you weren’t around, I wanted to find you
    You told me not to look so damn hard, but I did
    Like you right from the start
    Your baby teeth just chewing and gnawing my heart
    Just wouldn’t let it go
    I didn’t want you to
    I shrugged off my armor, my weapons, and denounced my faith
    I’m coming to get you, God be damned if he gets in my way
    Cause if he does, I’ll cut him in thirds
    I’ll cough up a prayer for him
    My blood damns you Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
    Then I’ll wage war against anyone that dares to stop me from
    I’ll find you, I'll rescue you from the light my love
    Feel the heat of their blood on the side of my throat
    I can’t get their taste off my tongue
    I chewed through the bones, killed their kids, burned their homes
    I felt their sharp soot in my lungs
    But you told me "No," you left me because you just couldn’t love me.
    But baby, its too late; they’re all dead. What the hell did I do?
    What if you stayed? What if you did? What if you wanted to?




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