Editing 1981 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1981}}
* [[July 1]] – [[Wonderland murders]]: The [[Wonderland Gang]] of cocaine dealers is brutally murdered in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lemons, Stephen|title=Return to Wonderland|url=http://www.salon.com/2000/06/09/wonderland/|work=Salon|date=June 9, 2000}}</ref> [[Eddie Nash]] is suspected of involvement, but will never be convicted.<ref>{{cite news|author=Timnick, Lois |date=March 21, 1990|title=Trial Begins for 2 in Grisly Laurel Canyon Murders of Mid-1981|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-21-me-687-story.html}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] – The [[Toxteth riots]] in [[Liverpool]], England, start after a mob prevents a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the [[Chapeltown riots (1981)|Chapeltown riots]] in [[Leeds]] start amid increased racial tension.
* [[July 7]] – United States President [[Ronald Reagan]] nominates the first woman, [[Sandra Day O'Connor]], to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Graya: A Magazine for Members of Gray's Inn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UVHAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Gray's Inn|page=51}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – ''[[Donkey Kong (arcade game)|Donkey Kong]]'' is released, marking the first ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' and [[Mario]] smash hit arcade game developed by [[Nintendo]] in Japan.
* [[July 10]]
** [[Mahathir Mohamad]] becomes the 4th [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Shukor Omar|title=The Malay Lost World: With Emphasis on Entrepreneurship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPLrAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Anzagain|isbn=978-983-037-120-7|page=36}}</ref>
** [[1981 Handsworth riots]] in [[Birmingham]] begin, followed by further [[1981 England riots]] in several urban areas including [[Liverpool]] and [[Leeds]].
* [[July 16]]–[[July 21|21]] – England become the first team this century to win a cricket Test match after the [[follow-on]] when they beat Australia by 18 runs at [[Headingley]] cricket ground, Leeds, England.
* [[July 17]]
** [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse]]: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.
** [[Israel]]i aircraft bomb [[Beirut]], [[Lebanese Civil War#Israeli bombing of Beirut|destroying multi-story apartment blocks]] containing the offices of [[PLO]]-associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Bombing of Beirut|journal=[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]|volume=11|issue=1|year=1981|pages=218–225|doi=10.1525/jps.1981.11.1.00p0366x}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – The [[1981 Springbok Tour]] commences in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of [[apartheid]].
* [[July 21]] – [[Panda]] [[Tohui]] is born in [[Chapultepec Zoo]] in Mexico City, the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.
* [[July 29]] – A worldwide television audience of over 750&nbsp;million people watch the [[Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer]] at [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in London, UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Royal Wedding of HRH The Prince of Wales and the Lady Diana Spencer|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fj1gx|publisher=BBC One|date=29 July 1981|access-date=25 December 2019|archive-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803143639/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fj1gx|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] – [[1981 Polish hunger demonstrations]]: As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in [[Łódź]] to protest about food ration shortages in [[Polish People's Republic|Communist Poland]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Quarterly Economic Review of Poland, East Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ycWAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Economist Intelligence Unit Limited|page=14}}</ref>