Events in History
- Sep 1 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
- Sep 3 20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-I): Discovery 6 returns to Earth
- Sep 6 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
- Sep 7 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
- Sep 8 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
- Sep 8 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, California
- Sep 8 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
- Sep 8 Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
Event of Interest
Sep 9 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
- Sep 9 Race riot in Birmingham, England
- Sep 10 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors
- Sep 11 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
- Sep 12 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
- Sep 13 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
Event of Interest
Sep 15 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
Event of Interest
Sep 21 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Sep 22 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
- Sep 22 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
- Sep 24 Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
- Sep 24 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
- Sep 25 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
- Sep 25 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
- Sep 26 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
- Sep 27 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
- Sep 27 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
- Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-12
- Sep 28 Riots in Brixton, London, rompted by police shooting of Dorothy Groce by police
- Sep 29 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
- Sep 29 Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 James Pitman, British educator and spelling reformer (Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet), dies at 84
- Sep 8 John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
- Sep 9 Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- Sep 10 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos, dies at 91
- Sep 11 Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler, dies jumping from a plane to his death with $15 million in cocaine at 40
- Sep 17 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, dies by falling down the stairs of her daughter's home at 60
- Sep 18 Gerald Holtom, British artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), dies at 71
- Sep 19 Italo Calvino, Italian author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 61
- Sep 21 Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
- Sep 22 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
- Sep 25 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), dies at 98
- Sep 29 Benjamin Markarian, Armenian astrophysicist (Markarian galaxies), dies at 71
- Sep 30 Charles F. Richter, American physicist and seismologist (developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude), dies at 85
- Sep 30 Heleb MacInnes, American spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
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