Events in History
Event of Interest
Sep 4 William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England
- Sep 7 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation
- Sep 9 St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
- Sep 9 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
- Sep 9 William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
- Sep 11 Australian newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial is founded, predecessor for the Herald Sun of Melbourne
- Sep 11 British mandate of Palestine begins
- Sep 11 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia
- Sep 13 "Straw Hat Riot" begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season's end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
- Sep 13 Alleged world record temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) in El Aziziyah, Libya, in the shade (invalidated 2012 by the World Meteorological Organization)
- Sep 16 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
- Sep 17 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
- Sep 18 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
- Sep 18 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
- Sep 18 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
Event of Interest
Sep 19 Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
Event of Interest
Sep 21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Historic Expedition
Sep 21 Wallal expedition of astronomers and local Nyangumarta people south of Broome, Australia, photograph total solar eclipse proving Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that space is curved by showing deflection of starlight round the sun [1]
- Sep 22 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
- Sep 23 Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany
- Sep 23 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
- Sep 24 Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
- Sep 25 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
Event of Interest
Sep 27 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
Event of Interest
Sep 29 Benito Mussolini asks the Vatican for support of his fascist party program
- Sep 30 Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece
Birthdays in History
- Sep 1 Melvin Laird, American politician (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2016)
- Sep 2 Arthur Ashkin, American scientist (Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 Optical Tweezers), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 3 Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter, mostly of local landscapes, born in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands (d. 1976)
- Sep 4 Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician, born in Vaxholm, Sweden (d. 1992)
- Sep 7 Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host, born in Paris (d. 2007)
- Sep 8 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (National Caucus of Labor Committees), born in Rochester, New Hampshire (d. 2019)
- Sep 9 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
- Sep 9 Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Gorlitz (d. 2017)
- Sep 9 Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
- Sep 11 Charles Evers, American civil rights leader (1st Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction), born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 2020)
- Sep 16 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Sep 16 Marcel Mouloudji, French singer, born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Sep 17 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), born in Ícolo e Bengo, Portuguese Angola (d. 1979)
- Sep 17 Naomi Datta, British geneticist and bacteriologist (pioneer in investigating the development of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria), born in London (d. 2008)
- Sep 19 Damon Francis Knight, American sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier), born in Baker City, Oregon (d. 2002)
- Sep 20 David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969), born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 21 Lee Hee-ho, Korean activist and first lady for her husband President Kim Dae-jung, born in Seoul, Japanese Korea (d. 2019)
- Sep 22 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist (disproved parity, Nobel Prize for Physics 1957), born in Hofei, Anwhei, China
- Sep 23 Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
- Sep 24 David Lane, British Conservative politician and CEO (Commission for Racial Equality), born in London (d. 1998)
- Sep 25 Hammer DeRoburt, First President of Nauru, born in Nauru (d. 1992)
- Sep 26 Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne, born in Antibes, France (d. 2014)
- Sep 27 Arthur Penn, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sep 28 Phyllis Friend, British chief nursing officer (DHSS)
- Sep 30 Alan Stretton, Australian general (managed the response to 1974 Cyclone Tracey in Darwin), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2012)
Weddings in History
Margaret Mitchell
Sep 2 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Berrien "Red" Upshaw; divoce in 1924
Margaret Sanger
Sep 18 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London
Deaths in History
- Sep 2 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), dies at 55
- Sep 4 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and theorist of Sorelianism, dies at 74
- Sep 5 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- Sep 8 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
- Sep 30 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
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