12 April 1981

Sunday

1981-04-12

Events

 * 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 . . 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)