October 15, 1981 (Thursday)
- "The Wave" was first led by Krazy George Henderson in Oakland, during 7th inning stretch of the ALCS between the A's and the Yankees. Henderson claimed that he had started the wave at "an NHL game in Edmonton in late 1980", while Rob Weller said that he had started it at the University of Washington in an October 31 game against Stanford.
- Born: Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player, in Moscow; and Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver and Olympic gold medalist in 2004 and 2008; in Baoding, Hebei province
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)