Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Four weeks after relations began, Deng Xiaoping stood on the South Lawn for a full arrival ceremony — the first visit to Washington by a leader of Communist China. He went on to charm Congress and the press, and to be photographed in a ten-gallon hat at a Texas rodeo.

At the 21st Annual Grammy Awards on 15 February 1979 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Billy Joel won Record and Song of the Year for 'Just the Way You Are', the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever won Album of the Year and A Taste of Honey won Best New Artist.

Equipment failures and operator errors cause inadequate core cooling and a partial meltdown in Unit 2, permanently ending that reactor’s operation.

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home.

Three months after breaking relations with Taipei, Congress wrote the substitute into law: an unofficial relationship run through the American Institute in Taiwan, arms 'of a defensive character', and a declared US capacity to resist any resort to force against Taiwan. It has governed the question ever since.

The 14th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 2 May 1979 at the Hollywood Palladium and televised live in prime time on NBC; Kenny Rogers won Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist, and the Oak Ridge Boys took Album and Vocal Group.

The first DC-9 Super 80, later called the MD-80, flew for the first time on 18 October 1979 from Long Beach; the stretched, higher-bypass JT8D-200 twinjet was certified on 25 August 1980.

Hayao Miyazaki's feature directing debut, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, opened in Japanese theaters on 15 December 1979, distributed by Toho. The gentleman thief Lupin follows counterfeit money to the tiny country of Cagliostro to rescue Princess Clarisse.

Seasonal dining in a historic mill beside Ancaster’s waterfall.

Brigantine Seafood & Oyster Bar - Escondido in Escondido. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

In 1980 Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield rented an old spool and bobbin mill on South Champlain Street in Burlington, Vermont and began packing their ice cream in pint cartons for grocery stores.

At the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards on 27 February 1980 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" won Record and Song of the Year, Billy Joel's 52nd Street took Album of the Year and Rickie Lee Jones was named Best New Artist.

The 15th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 1 May 1980 at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, live on NBC; Willie Nelson won Entertainer of the Year, Larry Gatlin took Album and Single, and Loretta Lynn was named Artist of the Decade.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.

An earthquake at 8:32 a.m. local time dropped the volcano's weakened north face away in the largest subaerial landslide on record, uncorking a lateral blast toward Spirit Lake. Fifty-seven people were killed.

Swissair, launch customer of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, put its first MD-81 into service on 10 October 1980, a month after taking delivery of the first aircraft on 13 September 1980.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha's Tomorrow's Joe 2 continues the boxing manga adaptation, following a downhearted Joe Yabuki as he wanders away from the gym before an old rival helps pull him back into the ring.

The Zhongshan Road shop serves Minnan pork rice dumplings with shacha noodles, meat-skin wonton soup and local snacks.

Sierra Nevada first brewed Celebration Ale in 1981 as a winter seasonal, a hoppy fresh-hop beer that the brewery says has used the same recipe ever since and now labels a Fresh Hop IPA.

At the 23rd Grammy Awards on 25 February 1981 at Radio City Music Hall, Christopher Cross became the first artist to win Record, Album and Song of the Year and Best New Artist in one night, taking five awards in all.

The 16th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 30 April 1981 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, hosted by Larry Gatlin, Don Meredith and Tammy Wynette; Barbara Mandrell won Entertainer of the Year and George Jones took Male Vocalist, Single and Song with "He Stopped Loving Her Today".

Launched as the William J. DeLancey and later renamed Paul R. Tregurtha, the Great Lakes' longest ship began hauling cargo with its maiden voyage on 10 May 1981.

The prototype Short 360 (SD3-60), the stretched 36-seat development of the Short 330, flew for the first time on 1 June 1981, leading to type certification on 3 September 1981 and airline service in November 1982.

The CDC's weekly report carried five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy young men in Los Angeles, two of them already dead. It is the first published account of what became AIDS, four years before the virus behind it was agreed on.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 American animated buddy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens. It reached US theaters on 10 July 1981.

The Daicon III Opening Animation screens at the Nihon SF Taikai convention in Osaka, the first of two self-funded fan short films that a young Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai made under the amateur group Daicon Film before founding Gainax.

The first Boeing 767-200, N767BA, flew for the first time on 26 September 1981 from Everett, Washington, seven weeks after its rollout. It began a ten-month flight-test program that used the first six aircraft built.

On 4 November 1981 the chairmen of Aeritalia and Aérospatiale signed in Paris the cooperation agreement that launched the ATR programme and its first aircraft, the ATR 42.