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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Famous quotes containing the word september:
“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)