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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“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.”
—Macmillan’s Magazine (London, September 1871)