Events in History
- Sep 1 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
- Sep 1 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
- Sep 1 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
Event of Interest
Sep 5 Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey, London
- Sep 5 Iranian army occupies Piranshahr
- Sep 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 10 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
- Sep 12 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage
- Sep 12 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale
- Sep 13 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Sep 13 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)
- Sep 14 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
- Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 16 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
- Sep 16 KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)
- Sep 16 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test
- Sep 17 Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
- Sep 18 Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge
- Sep 20 Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
Dictator Bokassa I
Sep 20 Coup in Central African Republic as David Dacko overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
- Sep 20 Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation
- Sep 20 NASA launches HEAO 3
- Sep 20 The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
- Sep 21 José Eduardo dos Santos becomes President of Angola
Historic Publication
Sep 21 Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin publish influential paper (cited more than 4,000 times) "The Spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm", introducing idea of "spandrels" into evolutionary biology
- Sep 21 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings
- Sep 22 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
- Sep 23 Somali constitution approved by president
- Sep 24 CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET [1]
- Sep 24 Ghana adopts constitution
- Sep 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 27 US Congress' final approval to create Department of Education
- Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 29 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
Papal Visit
Sep 29 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Sep 2 Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
- Sep 4 Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
- Sep 4 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian pro-Nazi politician, dies at 76
- Sep 5 Alberto di Jorio, Italian Cardinal and former head of the Vatican Bank, dies at 95
- Sep 7 Ivor Armstrong Richards, English literary critic (The Meaning of Meaning), dies at 86
- Sep 10 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), dies at 56
- Sep 16 Nur Mohammed Taraki, Communist president of Afghanistan (1978-79), murdered by order from his successor, Hafizullah Amin, at 62
- Sep 20 Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician (8th President of Czechoslovakia, 1968-75), dies at 83
- Sep 28 John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist, and space researcher, dies at 58
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