Historical Events
Androcles and the Lion
Sep 1 George Bernard Shaw's play "Androcles and the Lion" premieres in London
Second Revolution
Sep 1 Zhang Xun's Wuwei Corps captures Nanjing on behalf of Emperor Yuan Shikai in the Republic of China's Second Revolution, ending Chinese independence and causing Sun Yat Sen to flee to Japan
- Sep 2 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
- Sep 5 Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
- Sep 6 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
- Sep 6 1st aircraft to loop the loop - Adolphe Pégoud in France
- Sep 6 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
- Sep 9 Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to fly a loop, doing so in his Nieuport IV monoplane; he is arrested for ten days for endangering government property
- Sep 10 Cleveland Call & Post forms
- Sep 10 George W. Buckner, named minister to Liberia
- Sep 10 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway across the United States
- Sep 14 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
- Sep 15 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
- Sep 16 Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
US Golf Open
Sep 20 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet wins his only Open title in an 18-hole playoff, 5 strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon & Ted Ray
- Sep 21 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
- Sep 21 Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Sep 22 George M. Cohan's play "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC
- Sep 22 The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- Sep 23 French aviator Roland Garros (24) is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
- Sep 23 Serbian troops march into Albania
- Sep 23 Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices
- Sep 29 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
- Sep 29 Shubert Theater, named after Sam S. Shubert, opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
- Sep 29 The Treaty of Constantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria restores peace; the Turks recover Adrianople and Maritza River line
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Christian Nyby, American director (Big Sleep, Thing), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
- Sep 2 Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (Liverpool, 1959-74), born in Glenbuck, Ayrshire, Scotland (d. 1981)
- Sep 3 Alan Ladd, American actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers), born in Hot Springs, Arkansas (d. 1964)
- Sep 4 Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (Kagawa Prefectural Government Office Building; Pritzker Prize - 1987), born in Sakai, Japan (d. 2005)
- Sep 4 Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1976)
- Sep 4 Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1982)
- Sep 5 Conny Stuart [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer, and actress, born in Wijhe, Netherlands (d. 2010)
- Sep 5 Kathleen Burke, American actress (Island of Lost Souls), born in Hammond, Indiana (d. 1980)
- Sep 7 Anthony Quayle, British actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia), born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire (d. 1989)
- Sep 7 Oswald Szemerényi, Hungarian linguist, born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 7 Wim van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer and KVP politician (State Secretary of Economic Affairs), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Sep 10 Zephania Mothopeng, South African activist, President of the Pan-African Congress, born near Vrede, South Africa (d. 1990)
Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983)
Sep 11 American college football coach (Alabama), born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas
- Sep 12 Ben Polak, Dutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Jesse Owens (1913-1980)
Sep 12 American athlete (4 Olympic gold 100/200m, long jump, 4x100m relay 1936), born in Oakville, Alabama
- Sep 12 Kenneth Lo, cookery writer and restaurateur, born in Foochow, China (d. 1995)
- Sep 13 Roy Engle, American writer and actor (The Man from Planet X, The Wild Wild West, My Favorite Martian), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1980)
Jacobo Árbenz (1913-1971)
Sep 14 President of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA, born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Sep 15 Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU), born in Mannheim, German Empire (d. 2007)
- Sep 15 Henry Brant, American composer (Great American Goot), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2008)
- Sep 15 John Mitchell, American lawyer, political operative (US Attorney General, 1969-72), and convicted perjurer (Watergate Scandal), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1988)
- Sep 15 Roger "Ram" Ramirez, American jazz pianist and composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1994)
- Sep 17 Jørgen Jersild, Danish composer and educator (Royal Danish Academy, 1953-75), born in Copenhagen (d. 2004)
- Sep 19 Frances Farmer, American actress (Son of Fury, Flowing Gold, Among the Living), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
- Sep 21 Ulrich Ernst Simon, German-Jewish Anglican theologian, born in Berlin (d. 1997)
- Sep 22 Leroy Holmes, American songwriter ("The Mole"), arranger, and orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1986)
- Sep 23 Aleksi Machavariani, Soviet Georgian conductor, and composer (Den moei Rodini (Day of My Motherland); Five Monologues), born in Gori, Georgia (d. 1995)
- Sep 24 Herb Jeffries [Umberto Alejandro Ballentino], American actor and director (The Bronze Buckaroo, Mundo depravados), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2014)
- Sep 25 David Hunt, British diplomat winner of the BBC's Mastermind television quiz (1977), born in Durham, England (d. 1998)
- Sep 26 Ernst Schnabel, German writer and pioneer of the radio documentary, born in Zittau, Germany (d. 1986)
- Sep 27 Albert Ellis, American psychologist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
Alice Marble (1913-1990)
Sep 28 American tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40), born in Beckwourth, California
- Sep 28 Edith Pargeter, English author (wrote as Ellis Peters), born in Horsehay, Shropshire (d. 1995)
- Sep 28 Vivian Fine, American composer (Women in the Garden), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
- Sep 28 Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (Little Red Riding Hood: Imagery After a Tale by Perrault), born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 2007)
- Sep 29 Silvio Piola, Italian soccer striker (34 caps, 30 goals; Lazio), born in Robbio Lomellina, Pavia (d. 1996)
- Sep 29 Stanley E. Kramer, American producer and director (Inherit the Wind), born in New York City (d. 2001)
Trevor Howard (1913-1988)
Sep 29 English actor in over 70 films (Brief Encounter, Superman, The Third Man), born in Kent, England
Famous Deaths
Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)
Sep 29 French-born German engineer who invented the diesel engine, disappears at 55 aboard the ship Dresden in the English Channel
