September 8, 1981 (Tuesday)
- Stephen King's horror novel about a crazed St. Bernard dog, Cujo, was first published.
- Born: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American TV actor, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Died: Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese theoretical physicist, 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate; and Roy Wilkins, 80, leader of the NAACP.
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“Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Received every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.”
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