September 29, 1981 (Tuesday)
- President Reagan issued Executive Order 12324 to halt the flow of refugees from Haiti into the United States. Since 1978, almost 50,000 Haitian citizens fled the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier and most were detained in South Florida. Reagan ordered the U.S. Coast Guard to intercept and board any refugee vessels and return them to their nation of origin.
- U.S. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) completed a filibuster at 10:27 a.m., yielding the floor after beginning a speech of more than 16 hours the day before. Proxmire, famous for his monthly "Golden Fleece Award" for wasteful government spending, had spoken out against U.S. Senate approval of a bill to raise the debt ceiling above one trillion dollars. The cost of his speech to taxpayers, most of it for printing in the Congressional Record, was estimated at $64,674.
- A 22 year old Mojahed detonated two hand grenades, killing himself, seventeen pasdars and Hojjat al-Islam Hasheminezhad, the Islamic Republican Party leader, in the city of Khorasan.
- Police found four people shot to death in an expensive home in Columbia, South Carolina, known as the "devil house".
- Died: Bill Shankly, 68, British football manager who won multiple championships for Liverpool F.C.
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