November 1981 - November 15, 1981 (Sunday)

November 15, 1981 (Sunday)

• Abdus Sattar was confirmed as President of Bangladesh in an election suspected of being rigged. Running on the Nationalist Party ticket as one of 23 candidates, Sattar, who had been the acting President since the May 30 assassination of Ziaur Rahman, officially received 14,217,601 votes, nearly two-thirds of those cast, while runner up Kamal Hossain of the Awami League got 5,694,884.
• A force of 100 paratroopers from Zaire, arrived in Chad as the first part of a peacekeeping mission by member nations of the Organisation of African Unity, to maintain order while occupying soldiers from Libya departed. The contingent was followed by troops from Senegal and Nigeria.
• Born: Lorena Ochoa, Mexican-born golfer, in Guadalajara
• Died: Enid Markey, 87, American film actress who originated the role of "Jane" in the 1918 silent Tarzan of the Apes; and Khawar Rizvi, 43, Pakistani poet