Historical Events
- Sep 1 Battle of Megiddo starts, the final Allied offense during Sinai and Palestine campaign won by the Allies
- Sep 1 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
- Sep 3 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot); in all 19 mutineers were executed.
- Sep 3 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 3 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Robert Lindley Murray successfully defends title; beats Bill Tilden 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
- Sep 4 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
- Sep 4 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
- Sep 5 Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
- Sep 5 Due to WWI, 15th Baseball World Series begins a month early; Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs, 1-0 at Comiskey Park
- Sep 9 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
- Sep 10 Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs players threaten to boycott the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
- Sep 11 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 2-1 at Fenway Park for 4-2 series win; Sox 5th WS title
- Sep 12 WWI: US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
- Sep 13 Train accident at Weesp Netherlands, kills 42
- Sep 14 WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
- Sep 20 Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
- Sep 26 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
- Sep 29 WWI: Allied forces score a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Allen Drury, American author (Advise & Consent - 1960 Pulitzer Prize), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1998)
- Sep 2 Martha Mitchell [nee Beall], wife of US Attorney General John Mitchell, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (d. 1976)
- Sep 3 Helen Wagner, American actress (Mister Peepers, As The World Turns), born in Lubbock, Texas (d. 2010)
- Sep 4 Bill Talbert, American tennis player (9 x Grand Slam doubles titles; US Open singles 1944, 45 runner-up; International Tennis HOF), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1999)
- Sep 4 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher, born in Shelby, Mississippi (d. 2014)
Paul Harvey (1918-2009)
Sep 4 American news commentator and radio broadcaster (The Rest of the Story), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Sep 5 Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor, born in Badajoz, Mexico (d. 1992)
- Sep 7 Carolyn Cudone, American golfer (US Senior Women's Amateur 1968-72; most consecutive wins in any USGA championship), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 2009)
- Sep 7 Robin Lorimer, Scottish publisher (New Testament from Greek into Scots), born in Glasgow (d. 1996)
- Sep 8 Derek Barton, British organic chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1969), born in Gravesend, Kent (d. 1998) [1]
- Sep 8 John F. Seiberling, American politician (Rep-D-OH, 1971-86), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Sep 8 Sarah Cunningham, American actress (Trapper John, M.D. - "Nurse Andrews"), born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1986)
- Sep 9 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, sportscaster, LV bookmaker (The NFL Today; fired for racist remarks), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1996)
- Sep 9 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian President (1992-99), born in Novara, Italy (d. 2012)
- Sep 10 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog who was a Hollywood star (Where the North Begins) (d. 1932)
- Sep 11 Donald Blakeslee, American aviator who led 4th Fighter Group during World War II, born in Fairport Harbor, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Sep 13 Ray Charles, American orchestra leader (Perry Como), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2015)
- Sep 14 Cachao [Israel López], Cuban double-bassist, and composer (co-inventor of 'mambo' with his brother, Orestes López), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2008)
- Sep 14 Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver, born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1967)
- Sep 14 Jack Somack, American actor (Ball Four, The Frisco Kid, Stockard Channing Show), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1983)
- Sep 15 Nipsey Russell, American comedian (Car 54, Where Are You?), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2005)
- Sep 16 Mervyn Pike [Baroness Pike], politician (C), born in Castleford, West Yorkshire (d. 2004)
- Sep 17 Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel (1983-93), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1997)
- Sep 18 Johnny Mantz, American auto racer (Southern 500, 1950, first 500-mile race in NASCAR history), born in Hebron, Indiana (d. 1972)
- Sep 20 Margaret "Peg" Phillips, American actress (Northern Exposure -"Ruth-Anne"; ER; 7th Heaven), born in Everett, Washington (d. 2002)
- Sep 21 Rand Brooks [Arlington Rand Brooks Jr.], American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
- Sep 22 (Archibald James) "A.J." Potter, Irish composer (Finnegan's Wake), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1980)
- Sep 22 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose) (d. 1943)
- Sep 22 Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist (Brahms Concerto), born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland (d. 1988)
- Sep 24 Audra Lindley, American actress (Three's Company, The Relic, Ropers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
- Sep 24 Richard Hoggart, British author (The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life) and warden (Goldsmith's College London), born in Leeds, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 27 James McCallion, Scottish actor (Coogan's Bluff, Vera Cruz), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1991)
- Sep 27 Malcolm Shepherd [2nd Baron Shepherd], Politician (L) and Leader of the House of Lords (1974-76), born in Blackburn, Lancashire (d. 2001)
- Sep 27 Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (Astronomer Royal 1972-82, Nobel Prize for Physics 1974), born in Brighton, England (d. 1984) [1]
- Sep 28 Arnold Stang, American comedian and actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat), born in New York City (d. 2009)
- Sep 29 Harold Laurence Walters, American composer, born in Gurdon, Arkansas (d. 1984)
- Sep 30 Lewis Nixon, American WWII soldier (depicted in "Band of Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1996)
Famous Weddings
Bud Abbott
Sep 17 Abbott and Costello straight man Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith
Famous Deaths
- Sep 3 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed at 28
- Sep 12 George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- Sep 18 Ernest Farrar, English composer and musician, dies fighting on the Western Front during WWI at 33
- Sep 19 Liza Lehmann, English composer, dies at 56
- Sep 25 John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop of St Paul (1888-1918), dies at 80
- Sep 25 Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff), dies of a heart attack at 60
- Sep 28 Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege), dies at 63
- Sep 28 Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
- Sep 28 Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher, dies at 60
