June 16, 1981 (Tuesday)
- U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the United States would, for the first time, sell weapons to the People's Republic of China.
- Ferdinand Marcos was re-elected to a new six-year term as President of the Philippines, receiving a reported 18,309,360 votes, 86% of the total number cast. Alejo Santos had the highest total of eleven other candidates, with 1,716,499 or roughly 10%.
- Stanko Todorov, who had been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since 1971, was replaced by Grisha Filipov
- Died: Jule Gregory Charney, 64, American meteorologist and mathematician; Edward Boatner, 83, African-American concert singer; and John S. Knight, 86, American newspaper publisher
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