Editing 1981 (section)

===September===
{{Main|September 1981}}
* September – ''[[Little Miss Bossy]]'', the first book in the ''[[List of Little Miss characters|Little Miss]]'' series (the female counterpart to the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' series) is first published, in the U.K.
* [[September 1]] – [[Gregorio Conrado Álvarez]] is inaugurated as a military [[List of Presidents of Uruguay|de facto President of Uruguay]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arthur S Banks|author2=William Overstreet|author3=Thomas Muller|title=Political Handbook of the World 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXU_CplFBLYC|date=15 April 2008|publisher=CQ Press|isbn=978-0-87289-528-7|page=1446}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] – An [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Coal mine disasters|explosion at a mine]] in [[Záluží (Beroun District)|Záluží]], [[Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]], kills 65 people.
* [[September 7]] – British plantation company [[Guthrie (company)|Guthrie]] is taken over by the [[Government of Malaysia|Malaysian government]] after successfully purchasing shares to become the major shareholder. This is famously called the 'Dawn Raid attack'.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The 'Unfinished Business' of Malaysia's Decolonisation: The Origins of the Guthrie 'Dawn Raid'|author1=Shakila Yacob|author2=Nicholas White|date=May 2011|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=44|issue=5}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Picasso]]'s painting ''[[Guernica (Picasso)|Guernica]]'' is moved from New York to [[Madrid]].
* [[September 15]]
** [[Our Lady of Akita]] in Japan cries for the last time, on the Feast of [[Our Lady of Sorrows]].
** The ''[[John Bull (locomotive)|John Bull]]'' becomes the oldest operable [[steam locomotive]] in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
* [[September 17]] – [[Ric Flair]] defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]].
* [[September 18]] – France's National Assembly votes to abolish [[Capital punishment in France]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Council of Europe|title=The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition|publisher=Council of Europe Pub.|year=2004|page=196|isbn=9789287153333}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Solidarity Day march]], in support of organized labor, draws approximately 250,000 people in Washington, D.C.
* [[September 20]] – The overcrowded ferry boat ''[[Sobral Santos II]]'' capsizes in the [[Amazon River]], [[Óbidos, Brazil|Ób]], [[Óbidos, Brazil|idos, Brazil]], killing at least 300 people.<ref name="NYT1981">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/world/300-die-as-amazon-boat-sinks.html |title=300 Die as Amazon Boat Sinks |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=20 September 1981 |accessdate=5 January 2019}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] – [[Belize]], formerly [[British Honduras]], gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
* [[September 22]], a [[Northrop F-5]] [[Pancarköy air disaster|crashes]] during a [[military exercise]], in [[Babaeski]], Turkey, killing 1 crew and 65 soldiers on ground.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 June 2014 |title=Accident Northrop F-5A 64 13340 |url=https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/167195 |access-date=9 November 2023 |website=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] – [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] takes her seat as the first female justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
* [[September 26]]
** The [[Boeing 767]] airliner makes its first flight.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael John Haddrick Taylor|title=Boeing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwYKAQAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Jane's|isbn=978-0-7106-0420-0|page=205}}</ref>
** The [[Sydney Tower]] opens to the public in Australia.
* [[September 27]] – [[TGV]] high-speed rail service between Paris and [[Lyon]], France, begins.
* [[September 27]]–[[September 29|29]] – [[Iran–Iraq War]]: Iranian forces break the [[Siege of Abadan]] in [[Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh]].<ref>{{cite book|author=William F. Hickman|title=Ravaged and Reborn: The Iranian Army, 1982 : a Staff Paper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-5AAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Brookings Institution|isbn=978-0-8157-3611-0|page=27}}</ref>