Music History
Sep 3 Bill Haley & His Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
Election of Interest
Sep 4 Marxist Salvador Allende wins a narrow plurality of votes in Chile's presidential election
- Sep 4 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast
- Sep 5 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
- Sep 6 Palestinians seize 3 airliners
- Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Telethon
Sep 7 Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- Sep 7 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 planes and forces them to land at Dawson's Field, Jordan
- Sep 7 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
- Sep 7 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
- Sep 7 Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
- Sep 8 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Sports History
Sep 9 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
- Sep 9 Feyenoord wins soccer's Club World Cup
- Sep 11 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
- Sep 11 The Ford Pinto is introduced.
- Sep 12 Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 16 launched to the moon
- Sep 12 Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
- Sep 12 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the 1st time at Heathrow airport
- Sep 12 US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
- Sep 12 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 12 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court of Australia completes Grand Slam; beats American Rosemary Casals 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 13 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ken Rosewall wins second US title; beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; first major in which tiebreak used to decide sets at 6-6
- Sep 14 Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting
Music Recording
Sep 15 Decca awards Bing Crosby a second platinum disc for selling 300 million records
- Sep 15 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
- Sep 15 Rotterdam dock strikes end
- Sep 15 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed
- Sep 16 King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
- Sep 17 Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
- Sep 17 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
Television Premiere
Sep 19 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS
- Sep 19 1st Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Tyrannosaurus Rex headlines; other performs include: Wayne Fontana, Steamhammer, Duster Bennett, Al Stewart, Amazing Blondel, Keith Christmas, Quintessence, and Stackridge
Music History
Sep 20 Jim Morrison found guilty of "open profanity and indecent exposure" after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969
- Sep 20 Soviet spcecraft Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Film & TV History
Sep 21 "Monday Night Football" created by Roone Arledge, premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
Historic Event
Sep 22 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
Album Release
Sep 25 Ringo Starr releases album "Beaucoups of Blues"
- Sep 26 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
- Sep 26 A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
- Sep 27 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
- Sep 28 TV game show "Words & Music" debuts on NBC
Historic Event
Sep 28 Anwar Sadat replaces the late Gamal Abdel Nasser as acting Egyptian President; elected president in October 1970
