January 2, 1981 (Friday)
- The "Yorkshire Ripper", serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, was arrested by police in Sheffield, England after the largest manhunt in British ihistory. Over a period of six years, Sutcliffe was believed to have murdered 13 women.
- Born: Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine soccer star, in Rosario, Santa Fe
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)