Historical Events
Event of Interest
Sep 1 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
- Sep 1 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
- Sep 2 Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
- Sep 3 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
- Sep 4 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman
- Sep 4 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
Conference of Interest
Sep 4 US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 5 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Frank Sedgman of Australia beats American Vic Seixas 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 for his first of 2 straight US singles crowns
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 5 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maureen Connolly wins her 1st of 9 Grand Slam singles titles; beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
- Sep 8 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco
- Sep 9 1st broadcast of soap opera "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
Film Awards
Sep 10 "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
- Sep 10 British begin economic boycott of Iran
Sports History
Sep 11 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes.
The Rake's Progress
Sep 11 Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress", with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
- Sep 13 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
- Sep 14 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
- Sep 15 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 performances
- Sep 15 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
- Sep 15 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
- Sep 16 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players
US Women's Golf Open
Sep 16 US Open Women's Golf, Druid Hills GC: Betsy Rawls wins first of her 8 major titles, 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Louise Suggs
- Sep 17 Musical revue "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 90 performances
- Sep 17 Romanian bishop A. Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sep 18 "A Streetcar Named Desire", film directed by Elia Kazan based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theater, NYC
- Sep 18 "The Day the Earth Stood Still", science fiction film directed by Robert Wise, and starring Michael Rennie, opens
- Sep 19 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
- Sep 19 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
- Sep 20 1st North Pole jet crossing
- Sep 20 MLB owners elect National League President Ford Frick as 3rd Baseball Commissioner for a 7-year term at a then massive $65,000 per annum
- Sep 20 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
Sports History
Sep 21 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
Sports History
Sep 28 New York's Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951, an 8-0 home victory over Boston Red Sox; Yankees clinch pennant #18
- Sep 28 Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL record 554 yards
- Sep 29 American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovers Ananke, 12th moon of Jupiter from Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles County, California
- Sep 29 CBS broadcasts 1st football game in color, University of California against the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia
- Sep 29 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 David Bairstow, English cricket wicket keeper, broadcaster (4 Tests, 13 dismissals; father of England Test 'keeper Jonny; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, Yorkshire (d. 1998)
- Sep 1 Timothy Zahn, American Hugo Award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author (Thrawn; Cobra Strike), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 2 Jim DeMint, American politician
- Sep 2 Mark Harmon, American actor (St Elsewhere, NCIS), born in Burbank, California
- Sep 2 Michael Gray, American actor (Shazam!, Brian Keith Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 2 Mike Kaminski, British rock musician (ELO), born in Harrogate, England
- Sep 3 Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Lankan politician, President of Sri Lanka (2015-), born in Yagoda, Sri Lanka
- Sep 4 Judith Ivey, American actress (Lady in Red, Hello Again), born in El Paso, Texas
- Sep 4 Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician, born in Luleå, Sweden
- Sep 4 Martin Chambers, English rock drummer (Pretenders), born in Hereford, United Kingdom
- Sep 4 Nicu Ceaușescu, youngest child of Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and considered the President's heir apparent, born in Scornicești, Romania
- Sep 5 Jamie Oldaker, American session and touring drummer (Bob Seger; Leon Russell; Eric Clapton; Peter Frampton), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2020)
Michael Keaton (72 years old)
Sep 5 American actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Sep 5 Patti McGuire, American model and television producer, born in Dexter, Missouri
- Sep 5 Paul Breitner, German footballer, born in Kolbermoor, Germany
- Sep 6 Barry Troyna, English educational sociologist and author (Racism, Education and the State), born in London (d. 1996)
Chrissie Hynde (72 years old)
Sep 7 American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders - "Brass In Pocket"), born in Akron, Ohio
- Sep 7 Mammootty [Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail], Indian film actor and producer (Ahimsa), born in Chandiroor, India
- Sep 7 Mark Isham, American musician and film composer (The Hitcher), born in New York City
- Sep 7 Mark McCumber, American golfer (10 PGA Tour titles; Tour C'ship 1994), born in Jacksonville, Florida
- Sep 7 Morris Albert [Maurício Alberto Kaisermann], Brazilian singer ("Feelings"), born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Sep 8 Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer and songwriter, born in Piraeus, Attica, Greece
- Sep 8 Randy Odle, American astronaut, born in Port Arthur, Texas
- Sep 8 Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach (Pete Sampras coach 1992-95; Martina Navratilova Mary Joe Fernandez), born in La Crosse, Wisconsin (d. 1996)
- Sep 9 Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- Sep 9 Corry Konings, Dutch singer (Crying Is Too Late For You) and actress, born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- Sep 9 Robert Desiderio, American actor (Det Kennedy-Heart of the City), born in The Bronx, New York
- Sep 9 Tom Wopat, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard; One Life to Live) and singer (Consider It Swung), born in Lodi, Wisconsin,
- Sep 10 Albert R. Wynn, American politician (Rep-D-Maryland 1993-2008), born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- Sep 10 Gary Danielson, American NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions 1976-84; Cleveland Browns 1985, 87-88) and college commentator (CBS, ABC), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Sep 10 Peter Tolson, English rock guitarist (Pretty Things, 1970-81), born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire (d. 2016)
- Sep 11 Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician, born in Redhill, Surrey
- Sep 12 Berty Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland (1997-2008), born in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland
- Sep 12 Gerald Stano, American serial killer (confessed to killing 41 people), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1998)
- Sep 12 Joe Pantoliano, American actor (Finelli Boys, Fugitive), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
- Sep 13 Jean Smart, American actress (Designing Women, Hacks), born in Seattle, Washington
- Sep 14 Doina Rotaru, Romanian contemporary classical composer, born in Bucharest, Romania
- Sep 14 Eugene H. Trinh, Vietnamese-American astronaut (STS 50), born in Saigon, Vietnam
- Sep 15 Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer, born in Heemstede, Netherlands
- Sep 15 Pete Carroll, American football coach (Super Bowl 2013, Seattle Seahawks; New York Jets, New England Patriots; USC), born in San Francisco, California
- Sep 16 Andy Irvine, Scottish rugby union fullback (51 Tests [12 as captain] 269 points, 9 British & Irish Lions; Edinburgh District RFU), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Sep 17 Cassandra Peterson [Elvira], American actress (Echo Park, Elvira), born in Manhattan, Kansas
- Sep 18 Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon, Republican politician and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Sep 18 Darryl Stingley, American NFL football wide receiver, 1973-77 (New England Patriots), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
- Sep 18 Dee Dee Ramone [Douglas Colvin], American punk rock bassist (Ramones. 1974-89 - "I Wanna Be Sedated"), born in Fort Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia (d. 2002)
- Sep 18 Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver, born in Arisdorf, Switzerland
- Sep 19 Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer (Brian Eno; U2; Peter Gabriel; Bob Dylan), and singer-songwriter, born in Hull, Quebec, Canada
- Sep 19 Richard Dashut, American record producer (Bob Welch; Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham), born in West Hollywood, California
Guy Lafleur (1951-2022)
Sep 20 Canadian Hockey HOF right wing (5 x Stanley Cup, 2 x NHL MVP, NHL Playoff MVP Montreal Canadiens; NY Rangers, Quebec Nordiques), born in Thurso, Quebec [1]
- Sep 20 Javier Marías, Spanish translator and novelist (Corazón Tan Blanco - A Heart So White), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2022) [1]
- Sep 20 Joanna Cameron, American actress (I Love My Wife; Isis), born in Aspen, Colorado
- Sep 21 (John) "Willie" Wilcox, American drummer (Utopia, Todd Rundgren; Hall & Oates), born in Glen Falls, New York
- Sep 21 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
- Sep 21 Bob Franks, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1993-2001), born in Hackensack, New Jersey (d. 2010)
- Sep 21 Bruce Arena, American soccer coach (Olympic gold 1996), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 21 Ed Delahoussaye, American Racing Hall of Fame jockey (1982-83 Kentucky Derby), born in New Iberia, Louisiana
- Sep 21 Henk Hofstede, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist (Nits), born in Amsterdam, Holland
- Sep 22 David Coverdale, British-American rock singer (Whitesnake;, Deep Purple), born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England
- Sep 23 Ron Klink, American broadcaster and politician (Rep-D-Pennsylvania 1993-2001), born in Canton, Ohio
- Sep 23 Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistani politician (Prime Minister of Pakistan 2022-), born in Lahore, Pakistan
- Sep 23 Steven Springer, American reggae, calypso, and rock guitarist and songwriter (Sir Lancelot Pinard), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 2012)
- Sep 24 Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar and ambassador
- Sep 24 Terry Metcalf, American NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto), born in Seattle, Washington
- Sep 25 Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter (Ambrosia -"Biggest Part of Me"; Tin Drum), born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Mark Hamill (72 years old)
Sep 25 American actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars), born in Oakland, California
- Sep 25 Robert "Bob" McAdoo, American former NBA player (Buffalo Braves) and assistant coach (Miami Heat), born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Sep 26 Stuart Tosh, Scottish drummer, and singer (The Alan Parsons Project; 10cc), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Sep 26 Tony Sales, American rock bassist (Todd Rundgren; Iggy Pop; Tin Machine), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Sep 27 Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
- Sep 27 Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Sep 27 Paul Craig, British law professor
- Sep 28 Christian Marlowe, American actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 28 Silvia Dionisio, Italian actress (Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei), born in Rome, Italy
- Sep 28 Wei Chen, Canadian journalist (Canada AM), born in Taiwan
- Sep 29 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (¡Que viva la música!), born in Cali, Colombia (d. 1977)
- Sep 29 Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler (youngest to win individual Olympic Gold at 17 in 1968), born in Cumberland, Australia
Michelle Bachelet (72 years old)
Sep 29 Chilean Socialist Party politician (President of Chile, 2006-10 &, 2014-18; U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2018-22), born in Santiago, Chile
- Sep 29 Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcast journalist, born in Santa Ana, Manila, Philippines (d. 2023)
- Sep 30 Barry Marshall, Australian physician, (1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcers), born in Kalgoorlie, Australia
- Sep 30 Catie Ball, American 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)
- Sep 30 Nicholas Yermakov, American sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)
Famous Weddings
Leonard Bernstein
Sep 9 American conductor Leonard Bernstein (33) weds Costa Rican actress Felicia Montealegre (29), at Temple Mishkan Tefila in Roxbury, Massachusetts, until her death in 1978
Peter Sellers
Sep 15 Actor Peter Sellers (26) weds actress Anne Howe in London, England
- Sep 28 Actor Franchot Tone weds actress Barbara Payton
Famous Divorces
Jackie Coogan
Sep 20 Actor Jackie Coogan (36) divorces Ann McCormack after 5 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
- Sep 3 Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Sep 6 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat, dies at 84
- Sep 6 Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55
- Sep 7 John French Sloan, American painter and etcher, dies at 80
- Sep 7 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
- Sep 8 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56
- Sep 9 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, dies at 56
- Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
- Sep 10 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 14 Fritz Busch, German conductor, dies at 61
- Sep 15 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
- Sep 16 Bill Klem, American Baseball HOF umpire (record 18 x World Series), dies at of a heart attack at 77
- Sep 17 Gelett Burgess, American humorist and author (The Purple Cow), dies at 85
- Sep 17 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, dies somewhere between age 50 and 57 - (birth year documentation uncertain)
- Sep 24 Georges Rency, Belgian poet and literature, dies at 75
- Sep 26 Hans Cloos, German geologist and pioneer in the study of granite tectonics (the deformation of crystalline rocks), dies at 65
- Sep 29 Bradley Barker, American silent actor and film director, dies at 68
- Sep 29 Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men's national team), dies at 86
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