Historical Events
Event of Interest
Sep 2 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Sep 5 Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
- Sep 8 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- Sep 11 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
- Sep 11 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
- Sep 11 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
- Sep 11 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
- Sep 12 "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
- Sep 12 Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
- Sep 12 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
- Sep 13 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
- Sep 13 79th U.S. Men's National Championship: Neale Fraser beats Alex Olmedo (6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4)
Tennis Open
Sep 13 73rd U.S. Women's National Championship: Maria Bueno beats Christine Truman Janes (6-1, 6-4)
Maria Bueno
Event of Interest
Sep 15 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
Nikita Khrushchev
Event of Interest
Sep 16 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
Charles de Gaulle
- Sep 17 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
- Sep 17 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
- Sep 17 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
- Sep 18 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 19 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
- Sep 21 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
- Sep 22 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
- Sep 23 Australia's first passenger roll on/roll off diesel ferry, the MS Princess of Tasmania makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait
- Sep 26 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
- Sep 26 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
- Sep 26 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
- Sep 27 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
- Sep 27 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
- Sep 28 "Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV
Edward Albee
- Sep 28 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
- Sep 29 "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 "Philip Marlowe" debuts on ABC-TV
- Sep 29 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
- Sep 29 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop"
- Sep 29 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Keith Allen Clearwater, American PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl), born in Long Beach, California
- Sep 1 Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
- Sep 2 Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
- Sep 2 Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
- Sep 3 Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
- Sep 4 Armin Kogler, Austrian skier (2-time winner of jumping World Cup)
- Sep 4 William Kennedy Smith, Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991)
- Sep 4 Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
- Sep 5 Tom Pernice Jr, American professional golfer, born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Sep 7 Jermaine Stewart, American R&B singer (We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off), born in Columbus, Ohio
- Sep 8 Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
- Sep 9 Eric Serra, French composer
- Sep 10 Peter Nelson, American actor
- Sep 11 David Laurence Frost, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open), born in Cape Town, South Africa
- Sep 11 Robert Wrenn, American professional golfer, sportscaster and course designer, born in Richmond, Virginia
- Sep 12 Cindy Rarick, American LPGA golfer (1991 Northgate Computer), born in Glenwood, Minnesota
- Sep 14 Mary Crosby, American actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 14 Morten Harket, Norwegian rocker (Aha-Take on Me), born in Kongsberg, Norway
Tim Raines
Sep 16 Tim Raines, American baseball player (Montreal Expos), born in Sanford, Florida
Tim Raines
- Sep 17 Hank Ilesic, Canadian CFL punter and place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto), born in Edmonton, Alberta
- Sep 18 Ryne Sandberg, American baseball infielder (Chicago Cubs), born in Spokane, Washington
- Sep 18 Ian Arkwright, English footballer
- Sep 18 Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
- Sep 20 Lesley Thompson, Canadian rower (Olympic gold 1992, 96), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Sep 21 Corrinne Drewery, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
- Sep 21 David Coulier, American actor (Joey Gladstone-Full House), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Sep 22 Greg Bruckner, American professional golfer, born in Inglewood, California
- Sep 22 Pope Michael, American anti-pope
- Sep 23 Jason Alexander [Greenspan], American actor (George Costanza-Seinfeld), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Sep 23 D-Roc the Executioner [Dennis Miles], American heavy metal musician (Body Count), born in the US (d. 2004)
- Sep 24 Steve Whitmire, American voice actor and puppeteer (Kermit the Frog 1990-2016), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Sep 24 Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-born British businessman (Dragon's Den, Millwall Football Club), born in Limassol, Cyprus
- Sep 25 Andy Waller, Zimbabwean cricketer (big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup), born in Salisbury, Rhodesia
- Sep 26 Rich Gedman, American baseball player
- Sep 27 Beth Heiden, American 3000m speed skater (Olympic bronze 1980), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Sep 28 Angela Groothuizen, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
- Sep 28 Billy Montana, Country/Western performer (No Yesterday, Angelia)
- Sep 28 Todd Worrell, American baseball pitcher (LA Dodgers), born in Arcadia, California
- Sep 28 Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
- Sep 28 Steve Hytner, American actor
- Sep 29 Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), born in Silver City, New Mexico (d. 1959)
- Sep 30 Basia Trzetrzelevska, Polish jazz singer (Time & Life)
- Sep 30 Hans Werdekker, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, RKC/Amsterdam Admirals)
- Sep 30 Kim Bauer, LPGA golfer (1993 Minn LPGA Classic-30th), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Sep 30 Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Sep 5 Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (20) weds Linda Joan Bork
Evel Knievel
Wedding of Interest
Sep 19 Academy award winning actor Rod Steiger (34) weds stage and film actress Claire Bloom (28) in Los Angeles, California
Rod Steiger
- Sep 25 Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown (37) weds theater producer David Brown (43)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 6 Edmund Gwenn, English actor (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 81
- Sep 6 Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukaemia at 32
- Sep 7 Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec, dies at 69
- Sep 9 Max d'Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), dies at 84
- Sep 9 O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith, West Indian cricket all-rounder, dies in a car crash at 26
- Sep 11 Paul Douglas, American actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night), dies from a heart attack at 52
- Sep 13 Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56
- Sep 14 Wayne Morris, American actor and decorated WWII pilot (Paths of Glory, The Bushwackers), dies from a heart attack at 45
- Sep 17 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director (Belgian National TV), dies at 39
- Sep 20 Olin Howlin, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Them!, Circus Boy), dies at 73
- Sep 22 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60
- Sep 22 Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
- Sep 22 Josef Matthias Hauer, composer, dies at 76
- Sep 25 Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
- Sep 25 Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
- Sep 26 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1956-59), assassinated by a Buddhist monk at 60
- Sep 28 Gerard Hoffnung, German-born British artist/humorist/musician, dies at 34
- Sep 28 Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
- Sep 29 Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
- Sep 29 Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
- Sep 30 John H Kliegl, developer of Klieg light, dies at 89
- Sep 30 Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
- Sep 30 Ross Granville Harrison, American Biologist and Zoologist (organ transplant pioneer), dies at 89