Events in History
- Sep 2 A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum
Sep 2 Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (MAC) designed by Oscar Niemeyer inaugurated in Niterói, Brazil
- Sep 2 Soyuz TM-24, lands
- Sep 3 Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
- Sep 5 Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
- Sep 8 American children's program "Blue's Clues" debuts on Nickelodeon cable channel
- Sep 11 Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
- Sep 13 Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham
- Sep 15 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
- Sep 16 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
- Sep 16 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM
- Sep 16 NASA launches Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17)
- Sep 23 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM) and in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)
Treaty of Interest
Sep 24 US President Bill Clinton signs the "Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty" at the United Nations
- Sep 25 The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
- Sep 26 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
- Sep 27 In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- Sep 27 The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
- Sep 28 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka
- Sep 28 Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear
- Sep 28 Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700
Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
- Sep 1 Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carter weds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Sep 21 Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
- Sep 1 George Levy, English antique dealer, heritage campaigner, dies at 69
- Sep 1 Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper, dies at 98
- Sep 2 Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
- Sep 2 Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71
- Sep 3 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56
- Sep 3 Julian Amery, British conservative politician and minister, dies at 77
- Sep 3 Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75
- Sep 5 Rose Isabel Williams, American muse and sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
- Sep 8 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, American Art Deco designer, artist and writer, dies at 102
- Sep 9 Jack Pepys, South African British immunologist (allergy and allergic diseases), dies at 82
- Sep 10 Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
- Sep 12 Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
- Sep 12 Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, British Canon of Windsor and moral theologian, dies at 87
- Sep 12 James Gulliver, Scottish businessman (Argyll Foods), dies at 66
- Sep 12 Lloyd Turner, Australian-British journalist (Daily Star - libel case with Jeffery Archer), dies at 57
- Sep 12 Ricardo López, Uruguayan-born American stalker of Björk, commits suicide aged 21
- Sep 12 Richard Barrer, New Zealand-born chemist (father of zeolite chemistry), dies at 86
- Sep 13 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, American historian, dies at 68
- Sep 13 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies at 78
- Sep 14 Clive Beadon, British RAF Wing Commander and pilot (WWII), dies at 77
- Sep 14 Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
- Sep 15 Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76
- Sep 15 George Scheuer, Austrian writer and journalist, dies at 80
- Sep 15 Peter Michael Grayson, British showman, dies at 70
- Sep 16 Andrew MacElhone, British bar owner (Harry's New York - Paris, France), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Sep 16 McGeorge Bundy, American national security adviser for JFK (1961-66), dies at 77
Spiro Agnew (1918-1996)
Sep 17 American politician (Vice President, 1969 until resignation over corruption allegations in 1973), dies of leukemia at 77
- Sep 19 Douglas Hyde, English political journalist, dies at 85
- Sep 20 Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter and author who specialized in sabotage during World War II, dies at 81
- Sep 20 Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician, dies at 42
- Sep 20 Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician, dies of a heart attack at 83
- Sep 21 John Stachniewski, scholar and teacher at Manchester University (UK), dies at 42
- Sep 21 Julius Silverman, British Labour Party politician, dies at 90
- Sep 21 Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French nurse, who tried save Izieu children from Nazis, dies at 89
- Sep 22 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (1979-84), dies of a heart attack at 69
- Sep 23 Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
- Sep 23 Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex, dies at 86
- Sep 24 Henry Charles Gordon, American engineer and astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 70
- Sep 24 Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
- Sep 24 Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
- Sep 25 Betty Gathergood, British curator (Dr. Johnson's House), dies at 80 [1]
- Sep 25 Nicu Ceaușescu, youngest child of Romanian Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and considered the President's heir apparent, dies of cirrhosis at 45
- Sep 26 Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize - organometallic compounds), dies at 75
- Sep 26 George Henderson, Scottish priest (Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1977-92), dies at 74
- Sep 27 Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (1987-92), executed at 49
- Sep 29 Ethel Jane Cain, British telephonist and original UK Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87
- Sep 29 Shūsaku Endō, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison, Silence), dies at 73
- Sep 30 Elizabeth Gille, French writer, translator and editor, dies at 59
- Sep 30 Frances Lear, American magazine publisher (Lears), dies at 73
- Sep 30 Kenneth Muir, English scholar, dies at 89
- Sep 30 Udom Patpongsiri, Thai property developer (Father of the Thai sex industry), dies at 79
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