Events in History
- Sep 1 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
- Sep 4 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)
- Sep 5 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
- Sep 5 World's longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
- Sep 6 Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
- Sep 7 Cape Verde adopts its constitution
- Sep 7 Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
- Sep 8 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
- Sep 10 Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
- Sep 10 Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
- Sep 11 Chile adopts its constitution
- Sep 11 Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
- Sep 12 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
- Sep 13 1st United Negro College Fund
- Sep 13 5th Toronto International Film Festival: "Bad Timing" directed by Nicolas Roeg wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 17 Iraq under Saddam Hussein signs accord with Algeria
- Sep 17 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
- Sep 17 Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
- Sep 17 Iraq breaks 1975 treaty with Iran and proclaims sovereignty over Shatt al-Arab waterway
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Polish workers under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa found the Solidarity movement at the Gdańsk Shipyard
Lech Wałęsa
- Sep 18 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
- Sep 18 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
- Sep 19 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
- Sep 20 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
- Sep 21 Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
- Sep 22 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
- Sep 23 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
- Sep 24 Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
- Sep 25 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a law suit follows
- Sep 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 25 The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
- Sep 26 Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
- Sep 26 Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
- Sep 26 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
- Sep 27 WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
- Sep 28 Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
- Sep 28 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing
- Sep 29 Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
Event of Interest
Sep 30 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Sep 6 81st Prime Minister of UK Theresa May (23) weds investment banker Philip May at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Wheatley, Oxfordshire
Theresa May
Divorces in History
- Sep 5 Lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage
Deaths in History
Willard Libby
Sep 8 Willard Libby, American chemist (radiocarbon dating), dies of pneumonia at 71
Willard Libby
- Sep 8 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
- Sep 9 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, journalist and author (Black Like Me), dies from complications of diabetes at 60
- Sep 17 Anastasio Somoza Debayle [Tachito], President of Nicaragua (1967-72 and 1974-79), assassinated in Paraguay at 54
- Sep 17 Katherine A Porter, American author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
- Sep 18 K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
- Sep 25 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, dies at 97
- Sep 25 Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)