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
- 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
World Record
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 Lyuben 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 near Osaka, Japan
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
- 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
Telethon
Sep 5 Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
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
Film & TV History
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
- 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 8 Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo
- 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
Emmy Awards
Sep 11 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer win
- Sep 11 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
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
- Sep 12 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the south lawn of the White House, killing himself
- Sep 12 American country singer-songwriter George Jones undergoes successful 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 13 "Ready To Die" debut studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. released
- Sep 14 MLB team owners vote to cancel remainder of 1994 season, as well as the World Series for only the second time in history, continuing labor 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
President's Cup
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 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
Farm Aid Concert
Sep 18 Farm Aid VII held in New Orleans, Louisiana; performers include Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Neville Brothers, Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, John Conlee, Kris Kristofferson, Al Hirt, and Pete Fountain
Television Premiere
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
- Sep 24 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
Historic Event
Sep 24 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 25 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
- Sep 26 Estonia government of Prime Minister Mart Laar was defeated by no-confidence vote
- Sep 26 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
- Sep 28 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS
- Sep 28 "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance, joining "A Chorus Line" and "Oh! Calcutta!" in the 5,000 club
Film Premiere
Sep 28 "Ed Wood" film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp premieres
- 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)
- 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