March 27, 1981 (Friday)
- 1981 warning strike in Poland: Beginning at 8:00 in the morning, millions of workers in Poland, representing the majority of that nation's labor force, walked off of their jobs for four hours in a demonstration of support for the Solidarity movement. The employees then returned to their posts at noon.
- The United Mine Workers went on strike at 12:01 am, with 160,000 American coal miners walking off of their jobs.
- At 3:10 pm in Cocoa Beach, Florida, eleven construction workers were killed when the five story tall Harbour Cay Condominiums building collapsed. A bucket of wet concrete had slipped from a crane and fallen through the building's roof, and into the cloors below.
- Born: JJ Lin, Taiwan based R&B singer, as Lín Jùn Jié in Singapore
- Died: Juri Kukk, 41, Estonian professor of chemistry, in a Soviet labor camp from effects of a hunger strike.
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