Historical Events
- Sep 1 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart fans 7 consecutive batters in his MLB debut, en route to 9-3 win v White Sox
- Sep 1 Last broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC
- Sep 1 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
- Sep 1 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
Film Premier
Sep 1 Horror film "Dawn of the Dead" written and directed by George A. Romero, starring David Emge, Ken Foree and Scott H. Reiniger premieres in Torino
George A. Romero
- Sep 2 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
Baseball Record
Sep 2 Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson hits his 20th HR of the season in a 6-2 home win over Seattle; 19th MLB player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
Reggie Jackson
Event of Interest
Sep 4 Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
Jerry Lewis
Conference of Interest
Sep 5 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter begin Egypt-Isreal peace conference at Camp David
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Jimmy Carter
Ayatollah Khomeini
- Sep 9 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
- Sep 9 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
- Sep 9 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an uprising in the Iranian army
- Sep 9 Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
Tennis Open
Sep 9 US Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her 4th consecutive US title, beats fellow American Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-4
Chris Evert
- Sep 10 "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 performances
- Sep 10 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
- Sep 10 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
- Sep 10 US Open Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Björn Borg 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to become the 1st player to win the US Open on 3 different surfaces
Event of Interest
Sep 10 The single point American Lotus driver Mario Andretti earns for finishing 6th at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
Mario Andretti
- Sep 11 The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham, England
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
Fidel Castro
Television Premiere
Sep 12 Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television starring Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny Devito
Danny Devito
- Sep 13 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
- Sep 13 NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
- Sep 14 Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970
- Sep 14 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
- Sep 14 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people
- Sep 15 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 15 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
Muhammad Ali
Leon Spinks
Event of Interest
Sep 16 Filming on Monty Python's "Life of Brian" film, begins
Michael Palin
John Cleese
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel
Menachem Begin
Anwar Sadat
Jimmy Carter
- Sep 17 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3
- Sep 18 All four Kiss members release solo albums
- Sep 20 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances
- Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 20 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
- Sep 21 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes are destroyed
- Sep 21 3rd Toronto International Film Festival: "Girlfriends" directed by Claudia Weill wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 22 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
- Sep 23 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit
- Sep 24 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
- Sep 24 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
- Sep 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 25 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
- Sep 26 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
- Sep 26 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
- Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 28 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
- Sep 28 Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
- Sep 28 Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
Album Release
Sep 28 Metal band Black Sabbath release their 8th album "Never Say Die", last to feature Ozzy Osbourne before he was fired
Ozzy Osbourne
- Sep 29 "Flying High," debuts on CBS
- Sep 29 "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
- Sep 30 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
- Sep 30 Phillies clinch NL East title
- Sep 30 Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
- Sep 1 Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
- Sep 3 John Curtis, English footballer
- Sep 3 Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
- Sep 3 Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
- Sep 3 Nick Wechsler, American actor
- Sep 3 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
- Sep 4 Christian Walz, svensk soulartist.
- Sep 4 Wes Bentley, American actor
- Sep 5 Laura Bertram, Canadian actress (Trance Gemini-Andromeda), born in Toronto, Canada
- Sep 5 Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer (All Blacks), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Sep 5 Zhang Zhong, Chinese-Singaporean chess player, born in Chongqing, China
- Sep 5 Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer, born in New Winthorpes, Antigua
- Sep 6 Natalia Cigliuti, Uruguayan-American actress (Lindsay-Saved By Bell: New Class), born in Montevideo, Uruguay
- Sep 6 Cisco Adler, American singer and record producer, born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 6 Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player, born in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
- Sep 6 Mathew Horne, English actor (Gavin & Stacey), born in Nottingham, England
- Sep 6 Tony Thaxton, American drummer (Motion City Soundtrack), born in Mechanicsville, Virginia
- Sep 7 G[eneral] A[ustin], rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Columbus, Georgia
- Sep 7 Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer, born in Den Helder, Netherlands
- Sep 8 Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer
- Sep 8 Gil Meche, American baseball player
- Sep 9 Kurt Ainsworth, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Sep 9 Shane Battier, American basketball player
- Sep 9 Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- Sep 11 Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer (Serbia National Team captain), born in Belgrade, Serbia
- Sep 11 Ed Reed, American football player (Baltimore Ravens), born in St. Rose, Louisiana
- Sep 11 Ben Lee, Australian musician and actor (The Rage in Placid Lake), born in Sydney, Australia
- Sep 12 Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress, born in Sassari, Italy
- Sep 12 Ben McKenzie, American actor (Gotham), born in Austin, Texas
- Sep 12 Michael Paget, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine), born in Bridgend, South Wales
- Sep 12 Ruben Studdard, American singer (American Idol, I Need An Angel), born in Frankfurt, Germany
- Sep 13 Megan Henning, American actress (I Know Who Killed Me), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Sep 13 Darren Kenton, English footballer (Norwich City), born in Wandsworth, England
- Sep 14 Carmen Kass, Estonian model
- Sep 14 Danielle Peck, country music singer
- Sep 14 Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
- Sep 15 Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
- Sep 16 Dan Dickau, American basketball player
- Sep 16 Matthew Rogers, American singer
- Sep 17 Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- Sep 18 Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)
- Sep 18 Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
- Sep 18 Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
- Sep 19 Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel, born in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
- Sep 19 Nick Johnson, American baseball player, born in Tempe, Arizona
- Sep 19 Nigel Mitchell, English TV presenter (Quizmania and Capital Disney), born in Kingston Upon Thames, England
- Sep 19 Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer, born in Logroño, Spain
- Sep 20 Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer (Olympics 1996)
- Sep 20 Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
- Sep 20 Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
- Sep 20 T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
- Sep 20 Dante Hall, American football player
- Sep 21 Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- Sep 22 Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
- Sep 22 Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
- Sep 23 Worm Miller, American filmmaker
- Sep 23 Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
- Sep 24 Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
- Sep 24 Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
- Sep 25 Laura Nicholls, 50m swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Kitchener, Ontario
- Sep 25 Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
- Sep 25 Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
- Sep 25 Jodie Kidd, English model
- Sep 25 Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Sep 26 Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Sep 27 Brad Arnold, American singer (3 Doors Down)
- Sep 27 Jon Rauch, American baseball player
- Sep 28 Marzena Godecki, actress (Ocean Girl)
- Sep 28 Bushido, German rapper
- Sep 29 Mohini Bhardwaj, gymnast (alt-Olympics 1996), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sep 29 Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
- Sep 29 Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
- Sep 30 Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Sep 2 George Harrison marries Olivia
George Harrison
Wedding of Interest
Sep 2 Singer Gloria Estefan (21) weds musician and producer Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
Gloria Estefan
Wedding of Interest
Sep 30 Actress Meryl Streep (29) weds sculptor Don Gummer (31) in Mason's Island, Connecticut
Meryl Streep
Famous Deaths
Keith Moon
Sep 7 Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug overdose at 31
Keith Moon
- Sep 8 Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 79
- Sep 9 Jack L Warner [Jacob Warner], Canadian-American film executive and president of the Warner Bros. Studios, dies at 86
- Sep 9 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- Sep 10 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
- Sep 11 Mike Gazella, American baseball player (NY Yankees), dies at 82
- Sep 11 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
- Sep 11 Janet Parker, English medical photographer, the last person to die of smallpox, dies at 40
- Sep 11 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
- Sep 12 Frank Ferguson, American character actor (Gus Broeberg-My Friend Flicka, Eli Carson-Peyton Place), dies of cancer at 78
- Sep 15 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
- Sep 15 Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
- Sep 19 Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
- Sep 19 Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
- Sep 22 Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
- Sep 23 Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
- Sep 23 Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at 27
- Sep 24 Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
- Sep 25 Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
- Sep 26 Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
- Sep 28 Pope John Paul I [Albino Luciani], 263rd Roman Catholic Pope, dies after 33 days as pope at 65
- Sep 30 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75