Events in History
- Sep 2 Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
- Sep 3 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
- Sep 8 Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed H-1 racer plane at then record 352.46 mph (567 km/hr) at Santa Ana, California
Theater Premiere
Sep 25 Maxwell Anderson's play "Winterset" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Sep 30 The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Birthdays in History
- Sep 2 Jim Moody, American economist and politician (Rep-D-WI, 1983-93), born in Richlands, Virginia (d. 2019)
- Sep 5 Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russian cosmonaut, born in Gruzkoye, Ukraine (d. 2012)
- Sep 5 Werner Erhard, American author and lecturer (founded EST), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sep 7 Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal (1981-2000), born in Louga, French West Africa
- Sep 9 Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author and neurosurgeon (d. 2002)
- Sep 10 Mary Oliver, American poet (1984 Pulitzer Prize), born in Maple Heights, Ohio (d. 2019)
- Sep 10 Paul van Vliet, Dutch comedian and singer, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2023)
- Sep 11 Gherman Stepanovich Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok II), born in Kosikhinsky District, Russia (d. 2000)
- Sep 12 Allan B. Swift, American broadcast journalist and politician (US Representative for Washington (D), 1979-95), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2018)
- Sep 12 Richard Hunt, American sculptor (We Will; Pyramidal Complex), and 1st African American to have major retrospective at MOMA, born in Chicago, Illinois [1]
- Sep 14 Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist, born in Luanping, Rehe, Manchuria (d. 2008)
- Sep 16 Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist, born in Minneapolis (d. 2016)
- Sep 16 Carl Andre, American sculptor (minimal/conceptual art), born in Quincy, Massachusetts
- Sep 17 Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), born in La Junta Colorado (d. 2001)
- Sep 17 Timothy Bavin, British Anglican bishop (Bishop of Portsmouth 1985-95)
- Sep 19 Benjamin T. Hacker, American naval aviator (first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2003)
- Sep 19 Bob Krueger, American Democrat politician and diplomat (U.S. ambassador to Botswana & Burundi), born in New Braunfels, Texas (d. 2022)
- Sep 19 Thomas W. Ewing, American Republican politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), born in Atlanta, Illinois
- Sep 20 Keith Roberts, English writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell), born in Kettering, Northamptonshire (d. 2000)
- Sep 24 Lawrence Urquhart, Scottish businessman and CEO (Burmah Castrol)
- Sep 24 Paul Eells, American sportscaster ("Voice of the Razorbacks"), born in Iowa City, Iowa (d. 2006)
- Sep 25 Maj Sjowall, Swedish writer (Martin Beck crime novels), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2020)
- Sep 26 Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician, born in Kildorrery, Republic of Ireland (d. 2007)
- Sep 29 David Hannay, British diplomat (Representative to the UNand the EU),born in London, England
Deaths in History
Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935)
Sep 8 American oil tycoon who drilled the 1st successful oil well in Los Angeles and set off the California oil boom, dies of natural causes at 79
Huey Long (1893-1935)
Sep 8 American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-32) and Senator (1932-35), assassinated at 42 by Carl Weiss at the Baton Rouge Capitol building
- Sep 19 Jules Cambon, French ambassador, to U.S. (1897), Spain (1902–07) and Germany (1907–14), dies at 90
- Sep 19 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian pioneer in rocket and space research, dies at 78
- Sep 26 Andy Adams, American writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
- Sep 28 William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (devised an early motion picture camera), dies at 75
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