Historical Events
World Record 2000m
Sep 4 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland
International Lawn Tennis Challenge
Sep 4 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Tilden beats James Anderson 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australasia; US retains title, ends 4-1
Swallow Sidecar Company
Sep 4 William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England
- Sep 5 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
- Sep 7 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation
- Sep 9 St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
- Sep 9 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna and murder Greek citizens
- Sep 10 New York Yankees play their farewell home games in Polo Grounds, win both games of doubleheader against Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season
- Sep 11 Australian newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial is founded, predecessor for the Herald Sun of Melbourne
- Sep 11 British mandate of Palestine begins
- Sep 11 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia
- Sep 12 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
- Sep 13 "Straw Hat Riot" begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season's end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
- Sep 13 Alleged world record temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) in El Aziziyah, Libya, in the shade (invalidated 2012 by the World Meteorological Organization)
- Sep 15 Philadelphia catcher Butch Henline becomes first NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 during Phillies' 10-9 win over St. Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl
- Sep 16 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
- Sep 16 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
Sports History
Sep 17 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
- Sep 17 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
- Sep 18 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
- Sep 18 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
- Sep 18 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
- Sep 20 Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," opens at Winter Garden Theatre, NYC
Baseball Record
Sep 20 St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
Event of Interest
Sep 21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Wallal Expedition
Sep 21 Wallal expedition of astronomers and local Nyangumarta people south of Broome, Australia, photograph total solar eclipse proving Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that space is curved by showing deflection of starlight round the sun [1]
- Sep 22 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
- Sep 23 Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany
- Sep 23 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
- Sep 24 Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
- Sep 24 St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42
- Sep 25 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
Abdication of Constantine I
Sep 27 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
Mussolini Asks Vatican for Support
Sep 29 Benito Mussolini asks the Vatican for support of his fascist party program
- Sep 30 Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece
- Sep 30 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Il Mattatore [Vittorio Gassman], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (Scent of a Woman, War & Peace), born in Genoa, Italy (d. 2000)
- Sep 1 Melvin Laird, American politician (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2016)
- Sep 1 Yvonne De Carlo [Middleton], Canadian-American actress (10 Commandments; The Munsters-Lily), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2007)
- Sep 2 Arthur Ashkin, American scientist (Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 Optical Tweezers), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020) [1]
- Sep 3 Morrie Martin, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1949-59 (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics, and 5 other teams), and double Purple Heart Army veteran, born in Dixon, Missouri (d. 2010)
- Sep 3 Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Filipino composer, born in Caridad, Cavite City, Philippines (d. 1994)
- Sep 3 Salli Terri [Stella Tirri], Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning pop-classical-folk-exotica singer, arranger, composer (Duets with the Spanish Guitar), musicologist, and educator, born in London, Ontario (d. 1996)
- Sep 3 Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter, mostly of local landscapes, born in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands (d. 1976)
- Sep 4 Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician, born in Vaxholm, Sweden (d. 1992)
- Sep 7 Kirill Molchanov, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Moscow (d. 1982)
- Sep 7 Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host, born in Paris (d. 2007)
- Sep 8 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer (Your Show of Shows), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2014)
- Sep 8 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (National Caucus of Labor Committees), born in Rochester, New Hampshire (d. 2019)
- Sep 9 Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution) (d. 1996)
- Sep 9 Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Gorlitz (d. 2017)
- Sep 9 Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera cartoon themes, including "The Flintstones", and "The Jetsons"), born in Downey, California (d. 2000)
- Sep 9 Manolis Glezos, Greek politician, writer and resistance hero (took down Nazi flag from Acropolis), born in Apiranthos, Naxos, Greece (d. 2020)
- Sep 11 Charles Evers, American civil rights leader (1st Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction), born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 2020)
- Sep 12 Ellen Demming, American actress (Guiding Light), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2002)
- Sep 12 Jackson Mac Low, American poet and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Sep 13 Antonia Pantoja, Puerto Rican-American educator and civil rights activist, 1st Puerto Rican woman awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 2002) [1]
- Sep 13 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist ("Merry Christmas, Baby"), born in Texas City, Texas (d. 1999)
- Sep 13 Yma Sumac [Chavarri], Peruvian-American 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam), born in Ichocan, Cajamarca, Peru (d. 2008)
- Sep 14 Michel Auclair [Vladimir Vujović], German actor (Funny Face, Day of the Jackal), born in Koblenz, Weimar Republic (d. 1988)
- Sep 15 Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) (d. 2012)
- Sep 15 Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
- Sep 16 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Sep 16 Janis Paige, American actress (Lanigan's Rabbi; Trapper John, M.D.), born in Tacoma, Washington
- Sep 16 Marcel Mouloudji, French singer, born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Sep 17 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), born in Ícolo e Bengo, Portuguese Angola (d. 1979)
- Sep 17 Naomi Datta, British geneticist and bacteriologist (pioneer in investigating the development of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria), born in London (d. 2008)
- Sep 17 Ursula Howells, British actress (Hard Times, Girly, Murder is Announced), born in London, England (d. 2005)
- Sep 18 David Gahr, American photographer noted for his work with folk, jazz and rock musicians (Time Magazine; Folkways albums), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2008)
- Sep 18 Grayson Hall [Shirley Grossman], American actress (The Night of the Iguana, Dark Shadows), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
- Sep 18 Ray Steadman-Allen, British choral and brass band composer, born in Salvation Army 'Mother's Hospital', Clapton, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 19 Damon Francis Knight, American sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier), born in Baker City, Oregon (d. 2002)
- Sep 19 Dana Zátopková, Czech athlete (Olympic gold women's javelin 1952, silver 1960), born in Fryštát, Czechoslovakia (d. 2020)
Emil Zátopek (1922-2000)
Sep 19 Czech distance runner (4 x Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic
- Sep 20 David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969), born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 20 Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer, born in Fairfield, Connecticut (d. 2012)
- Sep 20 Frank Comstock, American big band and pop orchestral arranger (Les Brown; Doris Day; Warner Bros; Brian Setzer), film and television composer (Rocky and His Friends; Adam-12), and recording artist (Project: Comstock - Music from Outer Space), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
- Sep 20 William Kapell, American pianist and recording artist, born in New York City (d. 1953)
- Sep 21 Lee Hee-ho, Korean activist and first lady for her husband President Kim Dae-jung, born in Seoul, Japanese Korea (d. 2019)
- Sep 21 Lode Backx, Flemish pianist, born in Borgerhout, Belgium (d. 2010)
- Sep 22 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist (disproved parity, Nobel Prize for Physics 1957), born in Hofei, Anwhei, China
- Sep 23 Philip Sherrard, English author and translator of modern Greek, born in Oxford, England (d. 1995)
- Sep 24 David Lane, British Conservative politician and CEO (Commission for Racial Equality), born in London (d. 1998)
- Sep 24 Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz; That's My Mama), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 1998)
- Sep 25 Hammer DeRoburt, First President of Nauru, born in Nauru (d. 1992)
- Sep 26 Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne, born in Antibes, France (d. 2014)
- Sep 27 Arthur Penn, American film director (Miracle Worker; Bonnie & Clyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Sep 27 James Wilson, English-Irish classical composer (Grinning At The Devil), born in Islington, London (d. 2005)
- Sep 28 Joseph "Joe" Silver, American actor (Lenny, Mr I Magination), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989)
- Sep 28 Phyllis Friend, British nurse (Chief Nursing Officer DHSS) (d. 2013)
- Sep 29 Lizabeth Scott [Emma Matzo], American actress (Dark City, Desert Fury), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2015)
- Sep 30 Alan Stretton, Australian general who managed the response to Cyclone Tracey in Darwin, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2012)
- Sep 30 Allan Rae, Jamaican cricketer (prolific WI opening batsman 1948-53), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2005)
Famous Weddings
Margaret Mitchell
Sep 2 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Berrien "Red" Upshaw; divoce in 1924
Margaret Sanger
Sep 18 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London
James Cagney
Sep 28 American stage and film actor, dancer, and singer James Cagney (23) weds American dancer Frances Vernon in NYC
Famous Deaths
- Sep 2 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), dies at 55
- Sep 4 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and theorist of Sorelianism, dies at 74
- Sep 5 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- Sep 7 William Stewart Halsted, American pioneering surgeon (introduced anesthesia and antisepsis while addicted to cocaine and opium), dies at 69 [1]
- Sep 8 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
- Sep 10 Arpad Szendy, Hungarian composer, dies at 59
- Sep 10 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English writer (Irish Land League), traveller and Arabian stud founder, dies at 82
- Sep 11 Louis Coerne, American composer (Zenobia; Excalibur), and educator (The Evolution of Modern Orchestration), dies at 52
- Sep 21 Tom Armitage, English cricketer (took part 1st two cricket test match England played), dies at 74
- Sep 28 Andrejs Jurjans, Latvia's first professional classical composer, dies at 65
- Sep 30 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
