Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/34

1981
 * The first World Games are held in Santa Clara
 * Erhard Seminars Training in San Francisco dissolved
 * The Sonoma Valley AVA (winery directional sign pictured, left) is established
 * The Napa Valley AVA (historic marker pictured, right) is established
 * The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary is established in coastal waters off the Golden Gate
 * Arthur Leonard Schawlow at Stanford University, along with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn, share the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work with lasers
 * 14 year old Marcy Renee Conrad is murdered in Milpitas
 * Ceratitis capitata, known commonly as the "Mediterranean fruit fly", infests the Bay Area