Events in History
- Sep 1 SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- Sep 1 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
- Sep 3 Tunisia began its move for independence
- Sep 8 Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle bound for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die
- Sep 9 G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along" premieres in NYC
- Sep 12 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
- Sep 17 USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland & Portugal vote no)
- Sep 18 St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
- Sep 18 USSR admitted to League of Nations
- Sep 19 Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
- Sep 21 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
- Sep 22 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers
- Sep 26 British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; "wins" Blue Riband for fastest passenger crossing of Atlantic, 1936 & 1938-52; retired in 1967, permanently moored and converted to a hotel in Long Beach, California
- Sep 30 Charley O'Leary becomes the oldest person at 58 to get a hit in the majors
- Sep 30 St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year
Birthdays in History
Clive Granger (1934-2009)
Sep 4 Welsh-born British economist (Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2003), born in Swansea, Wales
- Sep 7 Mary Bauermeister, German artist, born in Frankfurt
- Sep 7 Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon (1990-92, 2004-05), born in An Nouri (d. 2015)
- Sep 8 Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician, born in Sainte-Croix, Quebec
- Sep 9 Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next)
- Sep 10 James L Oberstar, American politician (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1975-2011), born in Chisholm, Minnesota, (d. 2014)
- Sep 10 Maxie Anderson, American hot air balloonist (1st Trans-Atlantic crossing, 1978' 1st Trans-North America crossing, 1980; 1st Trans-Pacific crossing, 1981;), born in Sayre, Oklahoma (d. 1983)
- Sep 12 Gunther Gebel-Williams, animal trainer and lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus), born in Świdnica, Poland (d. 2001)
- Sep 12 Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher, born in Daegu, South Korea
- Sep 14 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1990)
- Sep 14 Kate Millett, American feminist and author (Sexual Politics), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2017)
- Sep 14 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher, born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Sep 15 Fred Nile, Australian politician and minister, born in Sydney, Australia
- Sep 16 Eva Clayton, American politician (Rep-D-North Carolina), born in Savannah, Georgia
- Sep 23 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx, The Royal Physician’s Visit), born in Hjoggbole, Sweden (d. 2020)
- Sep 24 Bernard Nevill, British textile designer, born in London, England (d. 2019)
- Sep 24 Manfred Wörner, German general and Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1994)
- Sep 25 John S. Bull, American naval officer and NASA astronaut, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2008)
- Sep 25 Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), born in Larkhall, Lanarkshire (d. 2013)
- Sep 26 Raphael Samuel, British Marxist historian, born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 27 DAER Peake, CEO (Kleinwort Benson Group)
- Sep 29 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Hungarian American psychologist, born in Rijeka, Kingdom of Italy
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