Events in History
- Sep 3 Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
- Sep 4 Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls
- Sep 4 Kansai International airport officially opens near Osaka, Japan
- Sep 5 Kirgizia government resigns
- Sep 6 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
- Sep 8 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin
- Sep 8 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
- Sep 8 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board
- Sep 9 Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20) launches into orbit
- Sep 9 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
- Sep 10 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
- Sep 11 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
- Sep 12 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the south lawn of the White House, killing himself
- Sep 12 Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Sep 13 George Burns undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
- Sep 13 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
- Sep 15 "Sound of Motown" premieres in Rotterdam
- Sep 15 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
- Sep 15 Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
- Sep 16 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House
- Sep 17 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
- Sep 18 Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
- Sep 18 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
- Sep 19 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
- Sep 19 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
- Sep 20 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
- Sep 21 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Laud/Miami Fl (WBGG 105.9 FM)
- Sep 22 Rasmussen government in Denmark resigns
Event of Interest
Sep 24 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
- Sep 24 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
- Sep 26 Estonia government of Prime Minister Mart Laar was defeated by no-confidence vote
- Sep 26 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
- Sep 28 909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea
- Sep 29 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
- Sep 30 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
- Sep 30 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
- Sep 30 Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election
Birthdays in History
Divorces in History
- Sep 17 Princess Christina separates
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
- Sep 1 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
- Sep 2 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
- Sep 2 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
- Sep 2 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
- Sep 3 Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
- Sep 3 Nikos Ghika, Greek artist, dies at 88
- Sep 3 Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
- Sep 4 Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
- Sep 5 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
- Sep 5 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
- Sep 6 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
- Sep 6 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
- Sep 7 James Clavell, British-American author (The Asian Saga), dies at 69
- Sep 8 Deborah Beer, British still photographer (Pasolini, Fellini), dies at 44
- Sep 8 Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
- Sep 9 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
- Sep 10 Amy Clampitt, American poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
- Sep 11 Frederick R. Weisman, American philanthropist (Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation), dies at 82
- Sep 12 Boris Yegorov, Soviet physician and cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
- Sep 12 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
- Sep 14 David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
- Sep 15 Michael Joyce, Irish stage manager and theatre director, dies at 48
- Sep 16 Alain Bernardin, French impresario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
- Sep 16 Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
- Sep 17 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Sep 17 Austrian-British philosopher (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
- Sep 17 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
- Sep 18 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies from AIDS complications at 44
- Sep 19 Sandra Fisher, American painter, dies at 47
- Sep 20 Davidson Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author, dies at 70
- Sep 21 Arthur Krim, American director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
- Sep 21 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
- Sep 22 Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
- Sep 22 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 79
- Sep 23 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
- Sep 23 Ali Kouider Benyahia [sheik Boualem], Alg Muslim leader, shot at 26
- Sep 23 Cherif Gousmi [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Muslim leader, shot
- Sep 23 Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
- Sep 23 John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
- Sep 23 Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
- Sep 24 Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
- Sep 24 David Napley, English solicitor, dies at 79
- Sep 24 Otto F. Walter, Swiss writer and publisher (Walter Verlag), dies of pulmonary cancer at 66
- Sep 25 John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
- Sep 25 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, German Prince of Prussia, dies at 86
- Sep 25 Mark Alexander Abrams, English market researcher, dies at 88
- Sep 25 Thomas Titus Nkobi, South African ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957), dies at 71
- Sep 26 Jessie Kesson, Scottish writer and radio producer, dies at 77
- Sep 26 Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener), dies at 87
- Sep 26 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
- Sep 27 Guiseppe Martelli, Italian physicist, dies at 71
- Sep 28 Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48
- Sep 28 Lady Huxley [Marie Juliette Baillot], Swiss sculptor and author, dies at 96
- Sep 28 Warwick Hutton, artist, dies at 55
- Sep 29 Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
- Sep 30 Andre Michel Lwoff, French physiologist (1965 Noble Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discoveries of genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), dies at 92
- Sep 30 Roberto Viola, Argentine general and president (1981), dies at 69
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