Historical Events
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 1 15 year old American tennis player Michael Chang becomes youngest man to win a match at the US Open when he beats Australian Paul McNamee in 4 sets in the opening round
Michael Chang
- Sep 1 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
Event of Interest
Sep 2 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
Donald Trump
- Sep 2 Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
- Sep 2 Philips introduces CD-video
- Sep 2 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
- Sep 3 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
- Sep 5 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
Tennis Open
Sep 5 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
John McEnroe
Event of Interest
Sep 5 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump
Carl Lewis
Event of Interest
Sep 7 Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
Jerry Lewis
- Sep 7 Netherlands sends 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
- Sep 7 South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
- Sep 7 "I Want Her" single released by Keith Sweat (Billboard Song of the Year 1988)
- Sep 9 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline" to cheating on his wife
- Sep 9 Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
Event of Interest
Sep 9 Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
Larry Bird
Baseball Record
Sep 9 MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
Nolan Ryan
- Sep 11 4th MTV Video Music Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
- Sep 11 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
- Sep 12 Ethiopia adopts constitution
- Sep 12 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
- Sep 13 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
- Sep 13 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
- Sep 13 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Steffi Graf of Germany 7-6, 6-1
- Sep 13 Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons
- Sep 14 'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
Event of Interest
Sep 14 Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
Cal Ripken Jr
- Sep 14 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 14 US Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins 3rd straight US title; beats Sweden's Mats Wilander 6-7, 6-0, 7-6, 6-4
Ivan Lendl
Mats Wilander
- Sep 15 Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf
Papal Visit
Sep 15 Pope John Paul II arrives in Los Angeles for a two-day papal visit, and addresses U.S. entertainment leaders
John Paul II
- Sep 16 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
- Sep 16 New York City's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 16 Pope John Paul II's ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism
- Sep 17 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
- Sep 17 Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco, meets with AIDS patients, and embraces an AIDS infected child
- Sep 18 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
- Sep 18 US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles
- Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 19 Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
- Sep 19 12th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Princess Bride" directed by Rob Reiner wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 20 "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 performances
Emmy Awards
Sep 20 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless win
Bruce Willis
NFL Record
Sep 20 Chicago running back Walter Payton scores his NFL record 107th rushing touchdown in the Bears' 20-3 victory over Tampa Bay
Walter Payton
- Sep 21 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf
- Sep 22 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
- Sep 22 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
- Sep 22 Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
- Sep 22 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
- Sep 22 Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
- Sep 23 Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida creates two states: Akwa Ibom and Katisna
- Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 25 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
- Sep 26 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
- Sep 27 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil
- Sep 27 NFL players' strike begins in the US
- Sep 27 Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings
Television Debut
Sep 28 "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV
Patrick Stewart
- Sep 28 Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid"
#1 in the Charts
Sep 29 "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
Whitney Houston
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Daniel "Dann" Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore), born in Feilding, New Zealand
- Sep 2 Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
- Sep 3 Chris Fountain, English actor
- Sep 5 Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco, born in Princess Grace Hospital Centre, Monaco
- Sep 6 Ramiele Malubay, Filipino-American singer, born in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Sep 7 Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Sep 7 Evan Rachel Wood, American actress (Thirteen), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
Alexandre Bilodeau
Sep 8 Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier (Gold in 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics), born in Montreal, Quebec
Alexandre Bilodeau
- Sep 9 Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer, born in Douala, Cameroon
- Sep 11 Tyler Hoechlin, American actor (Teen Wolf), born in Corona, California
- Sep 13 Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer, born in County Wicklow, Ireland
- Sep 15 Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player
- Sep 16 Louis Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player, born in Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Sep 16 Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer, born in Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Sep 16 Daren Kagasoff, American actor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager), born in Encino, California
- Sep 17 Paul Huntington, English footballer
- Sep 18 Jinkx Monsoon [Jerick Hoffer], American drag queen, actor and singer (RuPaul's Drag Race season 5 winner), born in Portland, Oregon
- Sep 19 Danielle Panabaker, American actress
- Sep 19 Guy Williams, New Zealand comedian and TV personality (Jono and Ben), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Sep 20 Jack Lawless, American drummer for the Jonas Brothers
- Sep 21 Jimmy Clausen, American football player
- Sep 21 Courtney Paris, American basketball player
- Sep 21 Ashley Paris, American basketball player
- Sep 22 Tom Felton, English Actor
- Sep 24 Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
- Sep 24 Matthew Connolly, English footballer
- Sep 26 Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
Hilary Duff
Sep 28 Hilary Duff, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire), born in Houston, Texas
Hilary Duff
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Sep 5 Actor Steven Seagal (36) weds actress Kelly LeBrock (27) in Beverly Hills, California
Steven Seagal
Wedding of Interest
Sep 8 NFL Wide Receiver Jerry Rice (24) weds girlfriend Jackie Mitchell
Jerry Rice
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 Philip Friend, British actor (Dick Turpin, Buccaneer's Girl, Vulture, Fur Collar), dies at 72
- Sep 3 Morton Feldman, American composer, dies at 61
- Sep 3 Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian architect and author (Soldiers), dies at 76
- Sep 3 Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76
- Sep 5 Bill Bowes, English cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies at 79
- Sep 6 Quinn Martin, American television producer, dies at 65
- Sep 9 Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
- Sep 11 Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies of pneumonia following heart surgery at 72
- Sep 11 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (The Wailers), shot dead in Jamaica at 42
- Sep 11 Ludovic Feldman, Romanian composer, dies at 94
- Sep 12 John Qualen, Canadian actor (Casablanca, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers), dies at 87
- Sep 13 Mervyn LeRoy, American movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock), dies at 86
- Sep 15 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
- Sep 15 Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
- Sep 16 Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
- Sep 17 Harry Locke, British actor (Passport to Pimlico, Town on Trial), dies at 73
- Sep 18 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal
- Sep 19 Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- Sep 20 Michael Stewart [Myron Stuart Rubin], American playwright (Hello, Dolly!), dies at 63
- Sep 21 Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy & Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
- Sep 21 Jaco Pastorius, American jazz musician and bass guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
- Sep 22 Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
- Sep 22 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British composer, dies at 82
- Sep 22 Dan Rowan [Daniel Hale Rowan], American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), dies at 65
- Sep 23 Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62
- Sep 23 O. B. McClinton, American country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
- Sep 23 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British pianist and composer, dies at 87
- Sep 25 Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
Mary Astor
Sep 25 Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
Mary Astor
- Sep 25 George Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (David Copperfield), dies from cancer at 81
- Sep 28 Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason
- Sep 29 Henry Ford II, American businessman and son of Henry Ford, (President of Ford Motor Company, 1945-79), dies at 70
- Sep 30 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73
- Sep 30 Robert Schollum, Austrian composer, dies at 74