April 23, 1981 (Thursday)
- American CIA Director William J. Casey had an audience with Pope John Paul II in Rome concerning U.S. support for the Solidarity union in Poland. On the same day, Soviet Politburo members Mikhail Suslov and K.V. Rusakov met in Warsaw with the entire Politburo of Poland's Communist Party on its failure to control Solidarity.
- At the Empire State Building in New York City, workers unearthed a copper box containing the time capsule that had been placed in the building's cornerstone on September 9, 1930. Nearly all of the contents from 50 years earlier, including construction plans, paper money, photographs and that day's newspapers, had been "rotted beyond recognition" by water that had seeped in.
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