Historical Events
- Sep 1 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people
- Sep 2 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Johnson beats John Hawkes 6-0, 6-2, 6-1 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australia; ends 4-1; US 4th straight win
- Sep 3 Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy" premieres in NYC
Wilhelmina's Silver Jubilee
Sep 6 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee
- Sep 7 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
- Sep 7 Interpol forms in Vienna
- Sep 7 Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
- Sep 8 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
- Sep 9 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
- Sep 10 Irish Free State joins League of Nations
- Sep 11 After a single, Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke retires next 27 New York Yankees
- Sep 11 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
- Sep 11 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
- Sep 12 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co.
Primo de Rivera's Coup
Sep 13 Miguel Primo de Rivera leads a military coup with the support of King Alfonso XIII to become dictator and Prime Minister of Spain
Dempsey KOs Firpo
Sep 14 In his 4th heavyweight boxing title defence Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to KO Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the 2nd round at the Polo Grounds, NYC
- Sep 14 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
- Sep 15 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror
- Sep 15 Military officer Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator and Prime Minister of Spain after launching a coup d'état
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 15 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins 4th of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-4, 6-1, 6-4
German Passive Resistance Ends
Sep 26 Gustav Stresemann's German government ends passive resistance against the French-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr
- Sep 26 The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers
- Sep 27 Italian troops leave occupied Corfu
Lou Gehrig's 1st HR
Sep 27 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
- Sep 28 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
- Sep 28 New York Yankees overwhelm Boston Red Sox 24-4
- Sep 28 Radio Times 1st published
PGA Championship
Sep 29 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pelham CC: Defending champion Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagan in 38 holes for 3rd of his 7 major titles
- Sep 29 Steinhart Aquarium opens to public in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California [1]
Famous Birthdays
Rocky Marciano (1923-1969)
Sep 1 American boxer (undefeated world heavyweight champion 1952-56), born in Brockton, Massachusetts
- Sep 1 Theo Joekes, Dutch journalist, writer, and politician (VVD), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1999)
- Sep 2 Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- Sep 3 Fred Hawkins, American golfer (US Masters 1958 runner-up), born in Antioch, Illinois (d. 2014)
- Sep 3 Herbert Binkert, German soccer striker (12 caps Saarland; FC Saarbrücken), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 2020)
- Sep 3 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois), born in El Dorado, Kansas (d. 2018)
- Sep 3 Terry Wilson, American actor (Wagon Train, Escape to Witch Mountain), born in Huntington Park, California (d. 1999)
- Sep 4 Stan Burns, American television screenwriter (The Tonight Show, 1954-57; Get Smart; The Carol Burnet Show; The Flip Wilson Show; Dean Martin Roasts), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 2002)
- Sep 5 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1999)
- Sep 5 Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2004)
- Sep 6 Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1970)
- Sep 6 William Kraft, American timpanist, percussionist (Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble), conductor, and composer (The Demise of Suriyodhaya; Avalanche), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2022)
Louise Suggs (1923-2015)
Sep 7 American golfer and co-founder of LPGA (11 major titles, US Open 1949, 52), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Sep 7 Madeleine Dring, British composer and pianist, born in Harringay, England (d. 1977)
- Sep 7 Peter Lawford, British actor, producer and socialite (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man), born in London, England (d. 1984)
- Sep 8 Alan Weeks, English sports commentator (BBC), born in Bristol. England (d. 1996)
- Sep 8 Artie Anton, American jazz drummer, conguero, and timbalero (Stan Kenton, Jimmy Guiffre), born in New York City (d. 2003)
- Sep 8 Francois Chaumette, French actor (Le Bossu, They Never Slept, Christine), born in Paris, France (d. 1996)
- Sep 8 Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (Zhuravli), born in Tasda, Dagestan, Russian SSR (d. 2003)
- Sep 8 Wilbur Ware, American jazz double bassist (Riverside Records; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Rollins), included in photographer Art Kane's photo "A Great Day In Harlem", born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1979)
Cliff Robertson (1923-2011)
Sep 9 American actor (Charly, Spider-Man) and spokesman for AT&T, born in La Jolla, California
- Sep 9 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on transmissibility of kuru), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2008) [1]
- Sep 11 Alan Badel, British actor (Shogun, Salome, Bill Brand), born in Manchester, England (d. 1982)
- Sep 11 Betsy Drake, French-born American actress and writer (Every Girl Should be Married), born in Paris, France (d. 2015)
- Sep 12 Julie Mandell, American pop and theatre songwriter, and classical composer (The Pious Cat), born in New York City
- Sep 13 Édouard Boubat, French photographer, born in Montmartre, Paris (d. 1999)
- Sep 15 Anton Heiller, Austrian organist and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1979)
- Sep 15 Arvell Shaw, American jazz double-bassist (Louis Armstrong; Teddy Wilson), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2002)
- Sep 15 David Kraehenbuehl, American composer (March of the Trolls), pianist, teacher (Yale), and music theorist (Journal of Music Theory), born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (d. 1997)
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
Sep 16 Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), born in Singapore
Hank Williams (1923-1953)
Sep 17 American country singer-songwriter ("Cold Cold Heart"; "Hey, Good Lookin'"; "Your Cheatin' Heart"), born in Mount Olive, Alabama
- Sep 17 John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, born in Ashford, Kent (d. 1999)
- Sep 18 Bertha Wilson, Canadian lawyer and the 1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (d. 2007)
- Sep 18 Jur Mellema, Dutch politician (CHU), born in Nieuw-Scheemda, Netherlands (d. 2017)
- Sep 18 Peter Smithson, English architect, born in Stockton-on-Tees, England (d. 2003)
- Sep 18 Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Sep 20 Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish poet (A Little Bouquet), born in Northern Ireland (d. 1997)
- Sep 22 Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer, born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2014)
- Sep 23 Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, born in Rice, Virginia (d. 2017)
- Sep 24 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, born in Prague (d. 1994)
- Sep 24 Mervyn Brown, British diplomat and historian of Madagascar (d. 2023)
- Sep 24 Theodore "Fats" Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, born in Key West, Florida (d. 1950)
- Sep 25 Sam Rivers, American jazz and avant garde saxophonist, flutist, composer, and bandleader, born in El Reno, Oklahoma (d. 2011)
- Sep 26 Dharam Devdutt "Dev" Anand, Indian comedian, actor, director and producer, born in Shakargarh, Punjab, British India (d. 2011)
- Sep 27 Mary McCarty, American singer, dancer, stage and screen actress (Babes in Toyland; All That Jazz;, Trapper John, M.D.), born in Winfield, Kansas (d. 1980)
- Sep 28 Fred Robbins, American broadcaster (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1992)
- Sep 28 John Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish peer, then largest landowner in Scotland, 1st MP in a wheelchair (d. 2007)
- Sep 28 William Windom, American actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), born in New York City (d. 2012)
- Sep 29 Bum Phillips, American football coach (Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints), born in Orange, Texas (d. 2013)
- Sep 29 Stan Berenstain, American children's author (The Berenstain Bears), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)
Famous Weddings
Margaret Mead
Sep 3 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)
Spencer Tracy
Sep 12 Actor Spencer Tracy (23) weds Louise Treadwell (26) in Cincinnati, Ohio
