Events in History
- Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 5 NASA launches Voyager 1 on a mission to initially just fly-by Jupiter and Saturn, later Uranus and Neptune also (2012 becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system)
- Sep 5 Red Army Faction kidnaps and subsequently murders West German business executive Hanns Martin Schleyer
- Sep 7 Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
Event of Interest
Sep 7 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999
- Sep 7 Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy is released from prison after serving 4 years and 4 1/2 months
- Sep 8 Jimmy McCulloch quits Wings
- Sep 9 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
- Sep 10 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
- Sep 12 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police
- Sep 13 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
- Sep 13 2nd Test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise
- Sep 13 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
- Sep 14 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
- Sep 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 15 US President Jimmy Carter meets with 15 record company executives
- Sep 16 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
- Sep 16 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
- Sep 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Sep 18 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
- Sep 20 Russell Means addresses the UNHCR in Geneva: criticizes the United States, describing Native Americans as "people who live in the belly of the monster"
- Sep 20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
- Sep 22 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC
- Sep 22 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
- Sep 23 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
- Sep 26 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
- Sep 29 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 30 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- Sep 30 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
- Sep 30 Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
- Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Birthdays in History
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (45 years old)
Sep 15 Nigerian writer (Half of a Yellow Sun), born in Enugu, Enugu State
Weddings in History
- Sep 30 "Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard
Divorces in History
- Sep 11 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
Deaths in History
- Sep 4 E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
- Sep 4 Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher, dies at 82
- Sep 5 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, dies at 80
- Sep 10 Hamida Djandoubi, Tunisian convicted murderer who was the last person to be executed in Western Europe, is beheaded in Marseille by guillotine at 28
- Sep 12 Robert Lowell, American poet and pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean), dies at 60
- Sep 12 Steven Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody at 30
- Sep 18 Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
- Sep 25 Sidney James van den Bergh, Dutch businessman and politician, dies at 78
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