September 17, 1981 (Thursday)
- The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was dedicated at Grand Rapids, Michigan in a ceremony attended by the three heads of government of North America. U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo met in a "minisummit" at breakfast in Reagan's hotel suite, and comedian Bob Hope later entertained the 38th President and his guests.
- Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.
- Died: Rafael Méndez, 75, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso
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“Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a labourer’s fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.”
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