Editing 1981 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1981}}
* [[October 5]] – [[Raoul Wallenberg]] posthumously becomes an honorary citizen of the United States.
* [[October 6]] – Egyptian President [[Anwar Sadat]] is assassinated during a military parade.
* [[October 10]] – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the [[jōyō kanji]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJAWAQAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Sociological Abstracts, Incorporated|page=893}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] – Vice President [[Hosni Mubarak]] is elected President of [[Egypt]], one week after the assassination of [[Anwar Sadat]] during a parade, by servicemen who belong to the [[Egypt]]ian [[Egyptian Islamic Jihad|Islamic Jihad]] organization led by [[Khalid Islambouli]] and oppose his negotiations with [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Amnesty International Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PcvAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Amnesty International Publications|page=320|isbn = 9780939994021}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – Gas explosions at a coal mine at Hokutan, [[Yūbari, Hokkaidō]], Japan, kill 93 people.
* [[October 21]] – [[Andreas Papandreou]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Intelligence Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUbvAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1984|publisher=Intelligence International Limited|page=20}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] – The founding congress of the [[Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)|Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization]] faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.
* [[October 27]] – [[Soviet submarine S-363]] runs aground outside the [[Karlskrona]], Sweden, military base, leading to a minor international incident.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nigel West|title=Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtvdxS_nzTYC&pg=PA269|year=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-6760-4|pages=269}}</ref>