June 26, 1981 (Friday)
- Hua Guofeng formally resigned as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, the position that he had held since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
- The film Stripes, starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, premiered in the United States, before being shown worldwide.
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