September 21, 1981 (Monday)
- Belize, formerly the British Honduras attained independence, with George Price serving as its first Prime Minister, and Dame Minita Gordon as its Governor-General.
- The appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, 99-0, for her to become the 102nd justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- Born: Nicole Richie, American actress, singer and socialite, in Berkeley, California
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“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
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