August 6, 1981 (Thursday)
- President Reagan gave the go-ahead for U.S. production of the neutron bomb, with warheads for 380 Lance missiles and 800 on 150-mm howitzers for U.S. troops in Europe.
- France's Communication Minister, Georges Fillioud, announced the end of the state radio monopoly in France and permitted privately owned stations for the first time. Within two months, 400 new stations were on the air.
- Died: Urban Tigner Holmes, American theologian; and Corradino D'Ascanio, 70 Italian inventor
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