Ice Hockey
- May 10 - Cornwall Royals defeat the Kitchener Rangers to win the 1981 Memorial Cup
- May 21 - New York Islanders defeat the Minnesota North Stars to win the 1981 Stanley Cup
- Ice Hockey World Championships:
- Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Sweden
- Junior Men's champion: Sweden defeated Finland
- August 27 – death of Valeri Kharlamov (33), Russian player, in a car crash
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“When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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