Events in History
Election of Interest
Sep 3 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
Sweden Switches to Driving on the Right Hand Side
Sep 3 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road (Dagen H)
- Sep 4 Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5
- Sep 5 -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in the Caribbean, Mexico and Texas
- Sep 8 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
- Sep 8 The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
- Sep 8 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
- Sep 9 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
- Sep 9 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
- Sep 10 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
- Sep 10 Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
- Sep 11 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
Event of Interest
Sep 11 French President Charles de Gaulle visits Poland
- Sep 11 Indian/Chinese border fights
- Sep 11 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
- Sep 14 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
- Sep 14 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in The Bronx, NYC
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 17 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
- Sep 18 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
- Sep 20 Benin separates from Nigeria
Event of Interest
Sep 20 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland
- Sep 20 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
- Sep 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 23 Greek Colonels' regime frees ex-Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou
- Sep 23 Radio Malta stops testing
- Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 28 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Sep 29 -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
- Sep 29 International Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
- Sep 30 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
- Sep 30 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking
Birthdays in History
- Sep 1 David Whissell, Quebec politician, born in Montreal, Quebec
- Sep 8 James Packer, Australian businessman, son of Kerry Packer, born in Sydney, Australia
- Sep 11 Maria Bartiromo, American financial broadcast journalist, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 16 Hiroya Oku, Japanese Manga artist (creator of Gantz), born in Fukuoka, Japan
- Sep 21 Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, playwright, and translator, born in Biratnagar, Nepal
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald") hangs herself in prison at 60
- Sep 1 Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
- Sep 3 David Cohen, historian and chairman of the Jewish Council, dies at 84
- Sep 11 Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist, dies at 62
- Sep 13 Russell L. Rogers, American electrical engineer and astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 39
- Sep 13 Varian Fry, American journalist and recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", dies at 59
- Sep 14 Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
- Sep 18 John Cockcroft, English physicist (development of Radar, Nobel Prize 1951 for 1st particle accelerator, Director of Atomic Energy Research Establishment), dies at 70
- Sep 19 Monica Proietti "Machine Gun Molly", Canadian bank robber and criminal, dies in a high-speed chase at 27
- Sep 19 Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter, dies at 82
- Sep 24 Robert van Gulik, Dutch diplomat and writer (Judge Dee), dies at 57
- Sep 27 Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, dies at 80
- Sep 29 Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 50
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