Events in History
- Sep 2 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
- Sep 2 Italy agrees to general voting rights and proportional representation
- Sep 3 General John Smuts becomes the second Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Sep 3 President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
- Sep 4 British intervene in Petrograd
Event of Interest
Sep 4 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
Event of Interest
Sep 10 NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers
- Sep 10 Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
- Sep 11 US Marines again send troops to Honduras
Agreement of Interest
Sep 12 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism
- Sep 12 The poet Gabriele D'Annunzio organizes a militant nationalist group and takes Fiume (Rijeka) for Italy
- Sep 13 Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
- Sep 14 British regime forbids Sinn Féin Dáil
- Sep 16 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress
- Sep 16 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
- Sep 18 Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
- Sep 18 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drowns 280 along Gulf Coast
- Sep 20 Booth Tarkington's play "Clarence," premieres in NYC
- Sep 22 -Jan 20] Steel strike in the US
Event of Interest
Sep 25 US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers
- Sep 27 British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
- Sep 27 Democratic National Committee votes to allow female members
- Sep 30 Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers" premieres in NYC
- Sep 30 Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 hundred Black people in response to sharecroppers' attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder leads to Supreme Court enacted judicial reforms [1] [2] [3]
Birthdays in History
- Sep 6 Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and pioneering inventor, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2011)
- Sep 8 Gianni Brera, Italian sports journalist and writer, born in San Zenone al Po, Italy (d. 1992)
- Sep 9 Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
- Sep 13 George Weidenfeld, British publisher (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), born in Vienna (d. 2016)
- Sep 13 Mary Midgley, British-American philosopher (Animals and Why They Matter), born in London (d. 2018)
- Sep 16 Andy Russell, American singer (Andy & Della Russell Show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
- Sep 16 Laurence J. Peter, Canadian author (Peter Principle), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1990)
- Sep 19 Harry Shorto, British philologist and linguist (A Dictionary of the Mon Inscriptions) (d. 1995)
- Sep 21 Aya Zikken, Dutch author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh), born in Epe, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 2013)
- Sep 21 Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani modernist scholar, born in Hazara District, Pakistan (d. 1988)
- Sep 21 Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist (pioneering work in epistemology), born in Florida Oeste, Argentina (d. 2020) [1]
- Sep 26 Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher, born in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (d. 2012)
- Sep 27 Charles H. Percy, American businessman and politician (Sen-R-Illinois 1967-85), born in Pensacola, Florida (d. 2011)
- Sep 27 James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
- Sep 27 Jayne Meadows, American actress (Dark Delusion, David and Bathsheba) and wife of Steve Allen, born in Wuchang, Hubei, China (d. 2015)
- Sep 28 Lenn Hjortzberg, Swedish director ("Persona"; "Through a Glass Darkly"), born in Karlskrona, Sweden (d. 1975)
Weddings in History
Konrad Adenauer
Sep 26 German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany
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