30th Anniversary Celebration
1981 to 2011 marks Frontier's 30 years of providing quality service and a wide selection of fasteners to a demanding market of need.
We are having Sales all this month to Celebrate our 30 years and 1 month. August 1981 to Present
We are having Sales all this month to Celebrate our 30 years and 1 month. August 1981 to Present
A list of following events that happened 30 years ago as Frontier Fasteners opened it's doors to business.
October 1, 1981:
* President Reagan states that the United States will not allow Saudi Arabia to fall under the control of forces threatening to cut off oil supplies to the West.
* ARTICLE FROM THE OCTOBER 1981 ISSUE OF VIDEO MAGAZINE:
MGM/CBS Adds More CED Titles:
To the list ot the first CED videodisc programs from MGM/CBS Home Video that we brought you last month we have the following additions to bring the total to 20. As you will note, all of the CED releases are already available in Beta and VHS tape from MGM/CBS, Fotomat, and other sources. Recommended list price for the titles below as well as the other one-disc albums is $24.95. The five two-disc albums go for $39.95. MGM/CBS promises 20 more CED releases by the end of next year when its Georgia manufacturing plant will be turning them out.
MGM/CBS ADDS AN ADDITIONAL 4 CED TITLES:
Forbidden Planet
Great Figures in History: John F. Kennedy
Network
Tom & Jerry
October 2, 1981:
* President Reagan announces his proposal for modernizing and reinforcing the U.S. strategic defense. He proposes the deployment of 100 MX missiles and the building of 100 B-1 long-range stealth bombers.
* Solidarity, Poland's federation of trade unions, re-elects Lech Walesa as its chairman with about 55% of the total vote.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Southern Comfort.
October 3, 1981:
* The hunger strike by six Irish nationalists being held in Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland is called off when five of the men learn that their families intend to order medical treatment once they lose consciousness. Ten prisoners had already died during the seven moth hunger strike.
October 4, 1981:
* The eight nations of the European Monetary System change the relative values of their currencies.
* The body of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is exhumed and positively identified in Fort Worth, Texas, disproving the theory of a British author that the coffin contains the body of a Soviet spy.
October 5, 1981:
* France freezes the price of certain goods and services to curb inflation after the Franc is devalued.
* President Gaafar Nimeiry of the Sudan dissolves the nation's two parliaments giving greater authority to individual provinces.
* Hojatoleslam Sayyed Ali Khamenei is officially declared the winner of Iran's presidential election.
* Actress Gloria Grahame dies at age 57. She appears in the CED titles Oklahoma and The Greatest Show on Earth.
October 6, 1981:
* Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a military parade in Cairo by extremists who jump from a military truck as it reaches the reviewing stand, hurling hand grenades and firing automatic weapons as they race toward the dignitaries. Vice President Hosni Mubarek, standing next to Sadat, is slightly injured.
October 7, 1981:
* The eight-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in which 44 sovereign states took part, concludes in Melbourne, Australia with a communique calling for "global negotiations" on economic development.
October 8, 1981:
* A Canadian parliamentary subcommittee, after a one-year study, urges government action to curb acid rain.
October 9, 1981:
* The Egyptian Ministry of Defense identifies the leader of the assassination plot against President Sadat as the brother of a man who had been arrested during the September crackdown on dissident elements; the other attacking commandos were said to be Muslim fundamentalists.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: Rich and Famous, Paternity.
October 10, 1981:
* An estimated 250,000 people march in Bonn, the capital of West Germany, to protest NATO's announced plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
October 11, 1981:
* An unknown rock performer named Prince opens for the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
October 12, 1981:
* Amnesty International, a human rights organization based in London, announces that the 1,800 executions carried out in Iran during the previous four months exceeded the total number of executions by all the governments of the world in 1980.
* RCA PRESS RELEASE:
RCA Demonstrates Advanced VideoDisc Player at Vidcom
A picture of this advanced SGT400 player in operation can be viewed in Media History.
* RCA PRESS RELEASE:
RCA Video Disc Player Owners Buying More Discs than Anticipated
October 13, 1981:
* Hosni Mubarak is overwhelmingly confirmed as president of Egypt in a national referendum.
October 14, 1981:
* Kare Willoch becomes prime minister of Norway as head of a minority Conservative Party government.
October 15, 1981:
* President Reagan, in an address before the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, outlines his policy on world economic development. After saying that "development and economic freedom go hand in hand," he notes that a mere handful of industrialized countries that couple "personal freedom with economic reward now produce more than one-half the wealth of the world."
October 16, 1981:
* Moshe Dayan, military hero and political leader who directed Israel's campaign in the 1967 six-day war, dies at age 66.
* Turkey's National Security Council, headed by General Kenan Evren, dissolves all the country's political parties and confiscates their assets.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: Private Lessons, Carbon Copy.
October 17, 1981:
* Las Vegas Grand Prix is won by Alan Jones of Australia. This is the final race of the 1981 Formula One season featured on the CED title "Start to Finish."
Arthur's Theme (CED) by Christopher Cross becomes the No. 1 U.S. single.
October 18, 1981:
* French President Francois Mitterrand and President Reagan meet in Williamsburg, Virginia to discuss Western Europe military capabilities.
* Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Council of Ministers chairman, replaces Stanislaw Kania as Communist Party first secretary.
* For the first time, President Reagan acknowledges that the U.S. economy is in recession, responding to a reporter's question that the country is in "a light, and I hope short, recession."
October 19, 1981:
* French President Francois Mitterrand and President Reagan attend a re-enactment of the historic British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781.
* "Black Monday" at Sony Corporation, when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses an earlier court ruling, stating that off-air videotape recording is illegal and sending the case back to district court to determine relief. More details are available in CED Digest Vol. 5 No. 5.
October 20, 1981:
* A guard and two policemen are killed in the robbery of a Brink's armored truck and the ensuing chase in Rockland County, New York. Several members of the radical Weather Underground are later arrested in connection with the crime.
October 21, 1981:
* PLO leader Yasir Arafat concludes a two-week trip to Asia and the Soviet Union during which he held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and won full diplomatic recognition of the PLO from Moscow.
October 22, 1981:
* The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority votes 2-1 to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) as bargaining representatives of air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
October 23, 1981:
* Representatives of 14 developing and 8 industrialized nations end a two-day North-South conference at the Mexican resort of Cancun. President Reagan supports talks between rich and poor countries but insists they be held within the framework of existing international agencies.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: My Dinner with Andre, All the Marbles.
October 24, 1981:
* Motion picture costume designer Edith Head dies at age 80. She won eight Oscars and worked on some 1000 films including many CED titles.
October 25, 1981:
* Alberto Salazar wins the New York City Marathon in a world-record time of 2 hours 8 minutes 13 seconds. Allison Roe breaks the women's record, finishing in 2:25:28.
October 26, 1981:
* Thirty-three Haitians drown after their boat capsizes less than a mile from shore near Hillsboro Beach, Florida.
October 27, 1981:
* A Russian submarine runs aground near the restricted Karlskrona naval base in southern Sweden.
October 28, 1981:
* The U.S. Senate gives President Reagan a stunning foreign policy victory when it approves 52-48 the sale of $8,5 billion worth of sophisticated aircraft and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
* The Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees four games to two.
October 29, 1981:
* OPEC sets a single price of $34 per barrel of crude oil through 1982.
October 30, 1981:
* The Federal Reserve board lowers its discount rate to 13 percent.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Tattoo.
October 31, 1981:
* Antigua and Barbuda, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, becomes independent of Great Britain at midnight, ending three and a half centuries of colonial rule.
All event information has been provided by another website- Please reference www.cedmagic.com
October 1, 1981:
* President Reagan states that the United States will not allow Saudi Arabia to fall under the control of forces threatening to cut off oil supplies to the West.
* ARTICLE FROM THE OCTOBER 1981 ISSUE OF VIDEO MAGAZINE:
MGM/CBS Adds More CED Titles:
To the list ot the first CED videodisc programs from MGM/CBS Home Video that we brought you last month we have the following additions to bring the total to 20. As you will note, all of the CED releases are already available in Beta and VHS tape from MGM/CBS, Fotomat, and other sources. Recommended list price for the titles below as well as the other one-disc albums is $24.95. The five two-disc albums go for $39.95. MGM/CBS promises 20 more CED releases by the end of next year when its Georgia manufacturing plant will be turning them out.
MGM/CBS ADDS AN ADDITIONAL 4 CED TITLES:
Forbidden Planet
Great Figures in History: John F. Kennedy
Network
Tom & Jerry
October 2, 1981:
* President Reagan announces his proposal for modernizing and reinforcing the U.S. strategic defense. He proposes the deployment of 100 MX missiles and the building of 100 B-1 long-range stealth bombers.
* Solidarity, Poland's federation of trade unions, re-elects Lech Walesa as its chairman with about 55% of the total vote.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Southern Comfort.
October 3, 1981:
* The hunger strike by six Irish nationalists being held in Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland is called off when five of the men learn that their families intend to order medical treatment once they lose consciousness. Ten prisoners had already died during the seven moth hunger strike.
October 4, 1981:
* The eight nations of the European Monetary System change the relative values of their currencies.
* The body of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is exhumed and positively identified in Fort Worth, Texas, disproving the theory of a British author that the coffin contains the body of a Soviet spy.
October 5, 1981:
* France freezes the price of certain goods and services to curb inflation after the Franc is devalued.
* President Gaafar Nimeiry of the Sudan dissolves the nation's two parliaments giving greater authority to individual provinces.
* Hojatoleslam Sayyed Ali Khamenei is officially declared the winner of Iran's presidential election.
* Actress Gloria Grahame dies at age 57. She appears in the CED titles Oklahoma and The Greatest Show on Earth.
October 6, 1981:
* Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a military parade in Cairo by extremists who jump from a military truck as it reaches the reviewing stand, hurling hand grenades and firing automatic weapons as they race toward the dignitaries. Vice President Hosni Mubarek, standing next to Sadat, is slightly injured.
October 7, 1981:
* The eight-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in which 44 sovereign states took part, concludes in Melbourne, Australia with a communique calling for "global negotiations" on economic development.
October 8, 1981:
* A Canadian parliamentary subcommittee, after a one-year study, urges government action to curb acid rain.
October 9, 1981:
* The Egyptian Ministry of Defense identifies the leader of the assassination plot against President Sadat as the brother of a man who had been arrested during the September crackdown on dissident elements; the other attacking commandos were said to be Muslim fundamentalists.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: Rich and Famous, Paternity.
October 10, 1981:
* An estimated 250,000 people march in Bonn, the capital of West Germany, to protest NATO's announced plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
October 11, 1981:
* An unknown rock performer named Prince opens for the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
October 12, 1981:
* Amnesty International, a human rights organization based in London, announces that the 1,800 executions carried out in Iran during the previous four months exceeded the total number of executions by all the governments of the world in 1980.
* RCA PRESS RELEASE:
RCA Demonstrates Advanced VideoDisc Player at Vidcom
A picture of this advanced SGT400 player in operation can be viewed in Media History.
* RCA PRESS RELEASE:
RCA Video Disc Player Owners Buying More Discs than Anticipated
October 13, 1981:
* Hosni Mubarak is overwhelmingly confirmed as president of Egypt in a national referendum.
October 14, 1981:
* Kare Willoch becomes prime minister of Norway as head of a minority Conservative Party government.
October 15, 1981:
* President Reagan, in an address before the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, outlines his policy on world economic development. After saying that "development and economic freedom go hand in hand," he notes that a mere handful of industrialized countries that couple "personal freedom with economic reward now produce more than one-half the wealth of the world."
October 16, 1981:
* Moshe Dayan, military hero and political leader who directed Israel's campaign in the 1967 six-day war, dies at age 66.
* Turkey's National Security Council, headed by General Kenan Evren, dissolves all the country's political parties and confiscates their assets.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: Private Lessons, Carbon Copy.
October 17, 1981:
* Las Vegas Grand Prix is won by Alan Jones of Australia. This is the final race of the 1981 Formula One season featured on the CED title "Start to Finish."
Arthur's Theme (CED) by Christopher Cross becomes the No. 1 U.S. single.
October 18, 1981:
* French President Francois Mitterrand and President Reagan meet in Williamsburg, Virginia to discuss Western Europe military capabilities.
* Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Council of Ministers chairman, replaces Stanislaw Kania as Communist Party first secretary.
* For the first time, President Reagan acknowledges that the U.S. economy is in recession, responding to a reporter's question that the country is in "a light, and I hope short, recession."
October 19, 1981:
* French President Francois Mitterrand and President Reagan attend a re-enactment of the historic British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781.
* "Black Monday" at Sony Corporation, when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses an earlier court ruling, stating that off-air videotape recording is illegal and sending the case back to district court to determine relief. More details are available in CED Digest Vol. 5 No. 5.
October 20, 1981:
* A guard and two policemen are killed in the robbery of a Brink's armored truck and the ensuing chase in Rockland County, New York. Several members of the radical Weather Underground are later arrested in connection with the crime.
October 21, 1981:
* PLO leader Yasir Arafat concludes a two-week trip to Asia and the Soviet Union during which he held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and won full diplomatic recognition of the PLO from Moscow.
October 22, 1981:
* The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority votes 2-1 to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) as bargaining representatives of air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
October 23, 1981:
* Representatives of 14 developing and 8 industrialized nations end a two-day North-South conference at the Mexican resort of Cancun. President Reagan supports talks between rich and poor countries but insists they be held within the framework of existing international agencies.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: My Dinner with Andre, All the Marbles.
October 24, 1981:
* Motion picture costume designer Edith Head dies at age 80. She won eight Oscars and worked on some 1000 films including many CED titles.
October 25, 1981:
* Alberto Salazar wins the New York City Marathon in a world-record time of 2 hours 8 minutes 13 seconds. Allison Roe breaks the women's record, finishing in 2:25:28.
October 26, 1981:
* Thirty-three Haitians drown after their boat capsizes less than a mile from shore near Hillsboro Beach, Florida.
October 27, 1981:
* A Russian submarine runs aground near the restricted Karlskrona naval base in southern Sweden.
October 28, 1981:
* The U.S. Senate gives President Reagan a stunning foreign policy victory when it approves 52-48 the sale of $8,5 billion worth of sophisticated aircraft and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
* The Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees four games to two.
October 29, 1981:
* OPEC sets a single price of $34 per barrel of crude oil through 1982.
October 30, 1981:
* The Federal Reserve board lowers its discount rate to 13 percent.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Tattoo.
October 31, 1981:
* Antigua and Barbuda, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, becomes independent of Great Britain at midnight, ending three and a half centuries of colonial rule.
All event information has been provided by another website- Please reference www.cedmagic.com