August 21, 1981 (Friday)
- In Las Vegas, Wilfredo Gomez lost the WBC junior featherweight boxing championship to Salvador Sanchez.
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“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)