September 9, 1981 (Wednesday)
- Indian newspaper owner Jagat Narain, 92, was assassinated by three gunmen after publishing articles critical of Sikh militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Sikh demands for a separate nation. On September 20, Bhindranwale surrendered to the police, but was released on October 14 by orders of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
- Born: Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress, in Buenos Aires; and Ivan Elez, Croatian footballer, in Split City, Yugoslavia
- Died: Jacques Lacan, 80, French psychiatrist and founder of the Lacanian technique of psychoanalysis
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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.”
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