October 2, 1981 (Friday)
- The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was elected President of Iran with 16,007,972 votes out of 16,846,996 cast. Education Minister Ali-Akbar Parvaresh placed second.
- U.S. President Reagan announced his plans to resurrect the B-1 bomber program that had been scrapped by President Carter, with 100 of the planes to be built by 1987, and another plan to deploy 100 MX missiles.
- Died: Harry Golden, 79, American journalist; and Hazel Scott, 61, American jazz singer and pianist
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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)