- Sep 1 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Event of Interest
Sep 1 Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
Jerry Lewis
Album Release
Sep 1 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
Paul McCartney
- Sep 1 Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
- Sep 2 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
- Sep 3 Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind" premieres in London
- Sep 3 Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
- Sep 4 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Sep 4 Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
Music Awards
Sep 5 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
Whitney Houston
Music Concert
Sep 6 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand's benefit concert
Barbra Streisand
- Sep 6 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
- Sep 6 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
- Sep 6 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
- Sep 6 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
- Sep 7 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
Event of Interest
Sep 7 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown
Desmond Tutu
Assassination Attempt
Sep 7 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, kills 5 people
Augusto Pinochet
- Sep 7 Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
Event of Interest
Sep 7 Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so
Dan Marino
- Sep 7 NBC premiere of "The French Connection" film based TV sequel "Popeye Doyle"
Tennis Open
Sep 7 106th Men's U.S. Open: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-4, 6-2, 6-0)
Ivan Lendl
Miloslav Mecir
- Sep 7 106th Women's U.S. Open: Martina Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (6-3, 6-2)
- Sep 8 Westinghouse sells background music company Muzak to the Fields Company of Chicago
Event of Interest
Sep 8 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally
Oprah Winfrey
Event of Interest
Sep 11 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak receives Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
Hosni Mubarak
Shimon Peres
- Sep 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 11 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
- Sep 12 240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Sep 12 Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly
- Sep 12 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
- Sep 12 Limited U.S. premiere of film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play "'Night, Mother"
Event of Interest
Sep 12 "Blue Velvet" directed by David Lynch, Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper debuts in Toronto
Isabella Rossellini
- Sep 13 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
- Sep 13 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
- Sep 13 11th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Decline of the American Empire" directed by Denys Arcand wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 14 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
- Sep 14 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
- Sep 14 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
- Sep 14 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
- Sep 14 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
- Sep 14 CBS premiere of true life "The Last Days of Patton"
- Sep 15 1st broadcast of "L.A. Law" on NBC-TV
- Sep 15 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
- Sep 16 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
- Sep 17 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
- Sep 17 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
- Sep 17 Mets clinch NL East Championship
- Sep 17 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
- Sep 18 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
Event of Interest
Sep 19 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
Michael Jackson
Television Awards
Sep 21 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J. Fox win
Michael J. Fox
- Sep 21 Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45)
- Sep 21 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
- Sep 21 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
- Sep 21 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
- Sep 21 Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
- Sep 22 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
- Sep 22 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
- Sep 22 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
- Sep 23 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
- Sep 23 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
- Sep 25 Antonin Scalia appointed to US Supreme Court
- Sep 25 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
- Sep 26 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
- Sep 26 RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
- Sep 26 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
- Sep 26 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
- Sep 27 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
- Sep 27 "Give Me Wings" single released by Michael Johnson (Billboard Song of the Year 1987)
- Sep 28 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
- Sep 28 Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
- Sep 28 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
- Sep 29 "Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA
- Sep 29 "Designing Women" TV comedy, debuts on CBS
Event of Interest
Sep 29 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
Greg Maddux
- Sep 29 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
- Sep 29 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
- Sep 29 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
- Sep 29 NBC true life drama "Adam: His Song Continues" premieres, sequel to "Adam" (1983)
- Sep 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 30 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
- Sep 30 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy