US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 1 8-time major winner Ivan Lendl (34) plays his final professional tennis match; forced to retire with back pain trailing Bernd Karbacher of Germany 6-4, 7-6, 1-0 in the 2nd round of the US Open
Ivan Lendl
- Sep 1 51st Venice Film Festival: "Before the Rain" directed by Milco Mancevski and "Vive L'Amour" directed by Tsai Ming-Liang jointly awarded Golden Lion
- Sep 2 Spanish road cyclist Miguel Induráin sets UCI hour world record distance 53.04 kilometers in Bordeaux, France
- Sep 3 Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
- Sep 3 Florida's Terry Dean tosses an NCAA football record 7 touchdown passes in the first half as the Gators roll to a 70-21 drubbing of New Mexico State
- Sep 3 Miami rout Georgia Southern 56-0, breaking NCAA football record with its 58th consecutive home win; Alabama won 57 straight at home between 1962-82
- Sep 4 Bulgarian government of Berov falls
- Sep 4 Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
- Sep 4 Kansai International airport officially opens
NFL Record
Sep 4 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws 5 touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of 4-or-more touchdown passes
Dan Marino
- Sep 4 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy; becomes first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
Event of Interest
Sep 5 Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
Jerry Lewis
NFL Record
Sep 5 SF wide receiver Jerry Rice catches 2 touchdown passes and runs for another score in 49ers' 44-14 rout of the Raiders; surpasses Jim Brown as NFL's career TD leader with 127
Jerry Rice
Jim Brown
Event of Interest
Sep 6 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
Video Music Awards
Sep 8 11th MTV Video Music Awards: Aerosmith wins with newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley opening the show
Michael Jackson
Lisa Marie Presley
- Sep 8 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion NYC for 52 performances
- Sep 8 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin
- Sep 8 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
- Sep 8 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board
- Sep 9 Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20) launches into orbit
- Sep 9 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
- Sep 10 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 10 US Open Women's Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain wins her only US singles title; beats Steffi Graf 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
Steffi Graf
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 11 US Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi wins first US title; beats Michael Stich of Germany 6-1, 7-6, 7-5
Andre Agassi
- Sep 12 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the south lawn of the White House, killing himself
- Sep 12 Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
- Sep 12 Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Sep 13 George Burns undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
- Sep 13 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
- Sep 14 All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
- Sep 14 MLB decides to cancel the Baseball World Series for only the second time in history; continuing labour dispute with Players Association
- Sep 15 "Sound of Motown" premieres in Rotterdam
- Sep 15 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
- Sep 15 Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
- Sep 16 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House
- Sep 17 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
- Sep 17 Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995
- Sep 17 19th Toronto International Film Festival: "Priest" directed by Antonia Bird wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 18 1st Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Davis Love III is undefeated as US beats International team, 20-12 in inaugural event
- Sep 18 Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
- Sep 18 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
- Sep 18 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
- Sep 19 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
- Sep 19 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
Film Premier
Sep 19 "ER" premieres on NBC, created by Michael Crichton, starring George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle
Television Debut
Sep 22 "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman debuts on NBC, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
Film Release
Sep 23 "The Shawshank Redemption", directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released
Morgan Freeman
- Sep 24 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
Event of Interest
Sep 24 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 25 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
Lennox Lewis
Film Premier
Sep 28 "Ed Wood" film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp premieres
Johnny Depp
Tim Burton
- Sep 28 909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea
Murder of Interest
Sep 29 1st phase of O.J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
O.J. Simpson
- Sep 29 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
- Sep 29 Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Sep 30 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
- Sep 30 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
- Sep 30 Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election