Events in History
- Sep 3 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
- Sep 3 South Africa adopts constitution
- Sep 5 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 lands at Edwards AFB
- Sep 6 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
- Sep 6 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
- Sep 8 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41G mission
- Sep 10 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
- Sep 10 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
- Sep 12 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
Event of Interest
Sep 13 Shimon Peres becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Israel, succeeding Yitzhak Shamir
- Sep 13 Shimon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud
- Sep 13 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
- Sep 15 Morocco Showcase opens
- Sep 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister, succeeding John Turner
- Sep 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 18 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
- Sep 18 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
- Sep 19 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
- Sep 20 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
- Sep 21 NASA launches Galaxy-C
- Sep 25 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
- Sep 26 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
- Sep 26 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
- Sep 26 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
Event of Interest
Sep 26 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
Birthdays in History
- Sep 9 Farrah Gray, American entrepreneur and author (Reallionaire), born in Chicago, Illinois
Prince Harry (38 years old)
Sep 15 Duke of Sussex, 5th in British succession, born in London, England
Weddings in History
- Sep 22 Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este at Church of Our Lady of "De Zavel
Deaths in History
- Sep 4 Ernst Stueckelberg, Swiss mathematician and physicist, dies at 79
- Sep 11 Jerry Voorhis, American politician (Rep-D-California 1937-47), dies at 83
- Sep 16 Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright and poet (Le Canari et le Cerise), dies at 87
- Sep 16 Richard Brautigan, American novelist and poet (Trout Fishing in America), takes his own life at 49 [exact date estimated based on forensic investigation]
- Sep 26 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
- Sep 29 Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Al Goris], Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
- Sep 30 Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
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