September 12, 1981 (Saturday)
- The Smurfs began a nine season run on NBC Saturday morning television.
- The National Assembly of France voted 329-129 to remove most of the powers of the prefects in France's 95 departments, in the first step toward decentralization of government. The bill still needed to pass the Senate and the signature of President Mitterrand to become law.
- Born: Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress, in Chicago
- Died: Eugenio Montale, 84, Italian writer, 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
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