August 23, 1981 (Sunday)
- Typhoon Thad, Japan's worst storm in 16 years, killed 40 people and left 20,000 homeless in Japan.
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“If August passes
flowerless,
and the frosts come,
will I have learned to rejoice enough
in the sober wonder of
green healthy leaves?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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