Events in History
- Sep 1 Turkey allows civil marriage
- Sep 2 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
- Sep 8 League of Nations Assembly votex unanimously to admit Germany
- Sep 9 National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
- Sep 9 Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die
- Sep 10 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
- Sep 10 Germany joins League of Nations
- Sep 11 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
- Sep 11 Spain leaves the League of Nations due to Germany joining
- Sep 16 -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
- Sep 16 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
- Sep 16 Philip Dunning & George Abbott's play "Broadway" premieres in NYC
- Sep 17 Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
- Sep 18 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
- Sep 19 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
- Sep 19 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
Assassination Attempt
Sep 20 Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails
40-Hour Work Week
Sep 25 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company
- Sep 25 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
Mackenzie King Re-elected
Sep 25 Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada
And So to Bed
Sep 26 JB Fagan's stage drama "And So to Bed", based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London
Birthdays in History
- Sep 1 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh, 1991-96, born in Shaistabad, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 2017)
- Sep 3 Alison Lurie, American novelist (Pulitzer Prize - Foreign Affairs), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
- Sep 3 John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
- Sep 3 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (US Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1983-93), born in McDonald, Ohio (d. 2019)
- Sep 4 Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Ventura, California
- Sep 6 Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, born in Hitzacker, Germany (d. 2002)
- Sep 7 Donald J. Irwin, American politician (32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut), born in Rosario, Argentina (d. 2013)
Ed Warren (1926-2006)
Sep 7 American paranormal investigator (Amityville haunting), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Sep 9 Annie Kriegel, French historian of communist history, born in Paris, France (d. 1995)
- Sep 9 Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Muslim scholar ("Sharia and Life" on Al Jazeera), born in Saft Turab, Egypt (d. 2022)
- Sep 10 Beryl Cook, British painter, born in Egham, England (d. 2008)
- Sep 11 Gerrit Viljoen, South African politician (Chair of the Broederbond), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 2009)
- Sep 14 Michel Butor, French novelist and essayist, born in Mons-en-Baroeul (d. 2016)
- Sep 15 Edward Derwinski, American congressman for Chicago 1959-83, first Secretary of Veteran Affairs 1989-1992, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 15 Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician (1954 Fields Medal), born in Bages, France
- Sep 16 John Knowles, American writer (Morning in Antibes), born in Fairmont, West Virginia (d. 2001)
- Sep 16 Robert Schuller, American Christian televangelist (Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power), born in Alton, Iowa (d. 2015)
- Sep 17 Donald Acheson, Irish physician and Chief Medical Officer for England (1983-90), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2010)
- Sep 19 Lurleen Wallace, American politician (46th Governor of Alabama), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (d. 1968)
- Sep 19 Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist (2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for neutrinos), born in Yokosuka, Japan (d. 2020) [1]
- Sep 19 Pierre Janssen, Dutch art museum director, born in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 2007)
- Sep 21 Donald A. Glaser, American physicist (Nobel 1960), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2013)
- Sep 25 Jack Hyles, Independent Baptist pastor (First Baptist Church of Hammond 1959-2001), born in Italy, Ellis County, Texas (d. 2001)
- Sep 26 Buland al-Haidary, Iraqi poet (Passages to Exile) (d. 1996)
- Sep 26 Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), born in Linz, Austria (d. 2011)
- Sep 28 Jack Sheedy, Australian Football HOF rover (WA 22 games; East Fremantle, East Perth) and coach (WA 10 games; East Fremantle, East Perth), born in Fremantle, Australia (d. 2023)
Weddings in History
Bonnie Parker
Sep 25 American student and future outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds American student and petty criminal Roy Thornton (17); separate in 1929
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 John Hunn, American businessman and 51st Governor of Delaware, dies at 77
- Sep 5 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
- Sep 9 William S. Scarborough, American linguist and author (Birds of Aristophanes), dies at 74
- Sep 14 Johan Louis Emil Dreyer, Danish-British astronomer (New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars), dies at 74
- Sep 16 Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
- Sep 17 August Sauer, Austrian literature historian (Euphorion), dies at 70
- Sep 21 Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
- Sep 21 Reginald Heber Roe, 1st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland and 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, dies at 76
- Sep 25 Herbert Booth, English Salvation Army Officer and son of William and Catherine Booth, dies at 64
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