Events in History
- Sep 1 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
- Sep 1 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
- Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 4 US authorizes Agency for International Development
- Sep 5 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
- Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
- Sep 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 11 Founding of the World Wildlife Fund in Morges, Switzerland
- Sep 11 Hurricane Carla strikes near Port O'Connor, Texas with winds of 175 mph
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Sep 12 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
- Sep 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 13 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
- Sep 13 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 16 CDU loses West German election
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 17 "Car 54, Where are You?" premieres on US TV
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
- Sep 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Transair Sweden DC-6 passenger aircraft chartered by the United Nations for transit to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis, crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), killing 16, including UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others; official inquiries never determined the cause
- Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 19 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
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Sep 20 African-American student James Meredith is refused enrolment to the segregated University of Mississippi
- Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 21 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel both ways (44 miles)
- Sep 21 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter
- Sep 22 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
- Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
- Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
- Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
- Sep 29 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
- Sep 30 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
Birthdays in History
- Sep 8 Paul Zanetti, Australian political cartoonist, born in Wollongong, Australia
- Sep 11 Philip Ardagh, English children's books author (Eddie Dickens series), born in Kent, England
- Sep 13 Peter Roskam, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), born in Hinsdale, Illinois
- Sep 16 Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Italian entertainer (Lo psicologo di famiglia), born in Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Sep 17 Pamela Ann Melroy, American Major USAF and astronaut (STS 92), born in Palo Alto, California
- Sep 21 Michel R Vassallucci, French-Netherlander publisher (Arena)
- Sep 23 William C. McCool, American US Navy Lt Cmdr, and astronaut (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), born in San Diego, California (d. 2003)
- Sep 26 Will Self, English author, born in Westminster, London
- Sep 27 Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
- Sep 28 Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Sep 29 Julia Gillard, Australian politician, 1st Australian female Prime Minister (2010-2013), born in Barry, Wales
Weddings in History
Chinua Achebe
Sep 10 Nigerian novelist, critic and academic Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart") marries Christie Okoli
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
- Sep 1 William Z. Foster, American labor organizer and US Communist Party president (1945-57), dies at 80
- Sep 3 Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
- Sep 7 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), dies at 76
- Sep 12 Carl Hermann, German physicist, dies at 63
- Sep 16 Yme Schuitmaker, Dutch potato farmer and dramatist, dies at 84
- Sep 17 Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)
Sep 18 Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in a plane crash in Africa at 56
- Sep 19 Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (The Fugitive)
- Sep 19 Pieter Tesch, Dutch mine engineer and geologist (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies at 82
- Sep 21 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid), dies at 68
- Sep 24 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
- Sep 26 Charles Erwin Wilson, American engineer (President and CEO of General Motors) and politician (United States Secretary of Defense 1953-57), dies at 71
- Sep 27 Hilda Doolittle, American poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
- Sep 29 Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist (Etruscan, Ancient Greece and Rome),, dies at 63
- Sep 30 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec, dies at 72
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