Events in History
- Sep 2 1st transatlantic "ping-pong'' round-trip air flight from NY to England an back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
Victory in Battle
Sep 4 Franco's troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina, Spain
Francisco Franco
- Sep 4 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
Herbert Hoover
Murder of Interest
Sep 13 Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner
Louis Buchalter
- Sep 14 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.
- Sep 21 Spanish fascist junta names Francisco Franco to Generalissimo and Supreme Commander
- Sep 25 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
- Sep 27 Franco troops conquer Toledo
- Sep 27 Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
- Sep 29 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
- Sep 30 International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
- Sep 30 Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
Birthdays in History
- Sep 2 Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
Andrew Grove
Sep 2 Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American pioneer in the semiconductor industry and one of the founders and CEO of Intel, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2016)
Andrew Grove
- Sep 3 John Olver, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts), born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania
- Sep 3 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (1987-2011), born in Hammam Sousse, French Tunisia (d. 2019)
- Sep 5 Alcee Hastings, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Altamonte Springs, Florida
- Sep 5 John C. Danforth, American politician (Sen-R-Missouri, 1976-95), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Sep 5 Jonathan Kozol, American writer and sociologist, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Sep 7 Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician, born in Lefkada, Greece
- Sep 13 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-fascist activist, born in Caserta, Italy
- Sep 14 Terence Donovan, English fashion photographer, film and video director, born in Stepney, London (d. 1996)
- Sep 14 Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist (Nobel 1998), born in Whiting, Indiana
- Sep 14 Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician, born in Rødøy, Norway (d. 2011)
- Sep 16 Frits Niessen, Dutch politician (PvdA)
- Sep 17 Jennifer Dickson, South African-British artist and photographer, born in Piet Retief, South Africa
- Sep 17 Mischa de Vreede, Dutch poetess (Our Eternal Hunger), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies
- Sep 17 Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society)
- Sep 21 Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (2nd Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010), born in Moscow
- Sep 22 Bill Orton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah), born in North Ogden, Utah (d. 2009)
- Sep 23 Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
- Sep 25 Edward Jones, British Army officer (UK Military Representative to NATO in Brussels), born in Altrincham, Cheshire, England
- Sep 25 Moussa Traoré, Mali soldier, politician and dictator, President of Mali (1968-91), born in Kayes, French Sudan (d. 2020)
Winnie Mandela
Sep 26 Winnie Mandela [Winnie Madikizela-Mandela], South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician, born in Bizana, Pondoland, South Africa (d. 2018)
Winnie Mandela
Deaths in History
- Sep 3 Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario (b. 1876 or 1877)
- Sep 5 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- Sep 12 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
- Sep 16 Karl Buresch, Austrian lawyer and politician, dies at 57
- Sep 17 Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- Sep 26 Harriet Monroe, American poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75