Events in History
- Sep 1 NYC police commissioner Brown resigns
- Sep 1 Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
- Sep 2 Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
- Sep 2 US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
- Sep 6 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
- Sep 7 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
- Sep 8 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1)
- Sep 10 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Psychiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
- Sep 11 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
- Sep 12 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Mae Jemison is the 1st African American woman to go into space (aboard Endeavour STS-47)
- Sep 12 NASA launches STS-47 (Endeavour 2)
- Sep 14 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
Soros Breaks the Bank
Sep 15 George Soros' Quantum Fund begins selling large amounts of pound sterling, labelled "the man who broke the Bank of England" when pound crashes out of the ERM next day
- Sep 16 "Black Wednesday" UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit
- Sep 16 900 die in flood in Pakistan
- Sep 16 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
- Sep 17 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion
- Sep 17 Theodore (Ted) Weiss wins democratic primary for NYC congressional seat despite having died on 14th
- Sep 19 UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
Maastricht Treaty
Sep 20 France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
- Sep 20 Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
- Sep 20 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
- Sep 22 Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
- Sep 23 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in NYC
- Sep 23 Mud storm kills 30 in South France
- Sep 25 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Sep 25 Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
- Sep 25 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
- Sep 25 US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
- Sep 26 Nigerian Air Force Hercules C-130 crashes three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163
- Sep 26 Tsuruhiko Kiuchi rediscovers Comet Swift-Tuttle, the first time it has been spotted since 1862
- Sep 27 ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals
- Sep 27 Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
- Sep 28 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
- Sep 29 Brazilian Parliament suspends President Fernando Collor de Mello
Birthdays in History
- Sep 30 Marina Windsor, English granddaughter of English prince Edward
Deaths in History
- Sep 2 Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of genetic transposition), dies at 90
- Sep 2 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
- Sep 3 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
- Sep 5 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
- Sep 8 Quentin Burdick, American politician (Senator-D-North Dakota 1960-91), dies at 84
- Sep 11 Erik Terpstra, Dutch director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies at 55
- Sep 13 Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
- Sep 14 Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
- Sep 14 Theodore S. Weiss, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
- Sep 15 Walter B Jones, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
- Sep 16 Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71
- Sep 16 Lee Tully, entertainer, dies
- Sep 16 Millicent Fenwick, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
- Sep 17 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
- Sep 18 Franz Schmid, German climber (1st to ascend northside of Matterhorn 1931), dies at 87
- Sep 19 Jacques Pic, French restaurant owner (Maison Pic), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Sep 21 (Johan) "Hans" Rosenberg, Dutch astrophysicist, politician (Alderman of Utrecht, 1974-82), and administrator (University of Utrecht, 1984-91), dies of AIDS at 48
- Sep 23 Glendon Swarthout, American novelist (Where The Boys Are; The Shootist), dies of emphysema at 74
- Sep 23 James Van Fleet, American US Army General (served during WWI, WWII, and Korean War), dies at 100
- Sep 23 Paul E Garber, American founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum, dies at 93
- Sep 26 Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85
- Sep 27 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
- Sep 28 John Leech, British mathematician, dies at 66
- Sep 28 William Douglas-Home, British playwright (Now .. Barabbas), dies at 80
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