Historical Events
- Sep 1 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68
Rear Window
Sep 1 Paramount Pictures releases "Rear Window", directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
- Sep 1 Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant opens infamous 10-day football mini camp in Junction, Texas; ordeal achieves legendary status becoming subject of 2001 book 'The Junction Boys' & television movie of the same name
- Sep 2 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
- Sep 2 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 3 Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed in the US, prompted by the cold war
- Sep 3 Pope Pius X canonized a saint
- Sep 3 The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
- Sep 3 The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy & Amoy
- Sep 4 Peter B. Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
- Sep 5 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
La Strada
Sep 6 "La Strada" directed by Federico Fellini premieres at the Venice Film Festival starring Anthony Quinn
- Sep 6 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 6 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Vic Seixas beats Australian Rex Hartwig 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 for his second and final major singles title
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 6 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Doris Hart beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-8, 6-1, 8-6 for the first of her 2 US singles titles
- Sep 6 US plane shot down above Siberia
- Sep 6 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
Journey to Italy
Sep 7 "Journey to Italy", directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, is released
- Sep 7 Integration begins in Washington, D.C. & Baltimore, Maryland public schools
- Sep 8 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia
- Sep 8 WINS radio station in NYC begins playing rock and roll music with Alan Freed's "Rock-n-Roll Party" program
Sports History
Sep 8 With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks
- Sep 9 Earthquake strikes Orleansville (now Chlef), Algeria: 1,250 killed with many aftershocks
- Sep 9 Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
Baseball Record
Sep 10 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
- Sep 10 WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 11 1st Miss America TV broadcast; 19-year-old Lee Meriwether of California crowned 27th Miss America
- Sep 11 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
- Sep 11 KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 12 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
- Sep 12 White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
- Sep 12 WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 13 Cincinnati first baseman Ted Kluszewski scores a run in his record 17th consecutive game as Reds lose 5-4 to Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
- Sep 13 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Turn of the Screw
Sep 14 Benjamin Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice
Baseball Record
Sep 14 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
- Sep 14 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
- Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test
- Sep 16 CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
Lord of the Flies
Sep 17 "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 17 In a quick re-match at Yankee Stadium, NYC, Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in the 8th round to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
- Sep 18 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
- Sep 18 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 18 WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Sep 20 1st FORTRAN computer program run
- Sep 20 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
- Sep 20 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Sep 20 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
- Sep 20 New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
Sports History
Sep 20 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
Election of Interest
Sep 25 Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
- Sep 25 Indians win AL record 111 games
- Sep 25 WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 26 A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia
- Sep 26 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru during a typhoon, 1,153 people die
- Sep 26 KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 26 KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 26 WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 26 WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting
Yogi Berra Plays at 3rd
Sep 26 Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
The Tonight Show
Sep 27 "The Tonight Show" premieres on NBC, hosted by Steve Allen
- Sep 27 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
- Sep 27 School integration begins in Washington, D.C. & Baltimore Md public schools
Barefoot Contessa
Sep 29 "Barefoot Contessa" film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart premieres at the Capitol
- Sep 29 "Masquerade Party" TV game show moves from CBS to ABC for two seasons
- Sep 29 Bennekom (Netherlands) soccer team forms
- Sep 29 KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
A Star Is Born
Sep 29 The first remake of "A Star Is Born", starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles
- Sep 29 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive during Game One of the World Series
- Sep 30 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy
The Boy Friend
Sep 30 Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend", cast includes Julie Andrews, making her Broadway debut, opens at the Royale Theatre, NYC; runs for 485 performances
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Gábor Ormai, Hungarian violist (Takács Quartet, 1975-95), and pedagogue, born in Hungary (d. 1995)
- Sep 1 Riccardo "Ric" Formosa, Italian-Australian guitarist (Little River Band, 1975-76), session musician, arranger and classical composer, born in Rome, Italy
Andrej Babiš (69 years old)
Sep 2 Czech businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Czech republic (2017-), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
- Sep 5 Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
- Sep 5 Hans-Jorgen Gerhardt, German bobsleder (Olympic gold 1980), born in Altenburg, Thuringia
- Sep 6 Banner Thomas, American rock bassist (Molly Hatchet), born in Orange Park, Florida (d. 2017)
- Sep 6 Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and political (R) candidate, born in Austin, Texas
- Sep 6 Jon Erikson, American swimmer 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981) (d. 2014)
- Sep 6 Patrick O'Hearn, American rock bassist (Missing Persons), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 7 Benmont Tench, American rock keyboardist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), born in Gainesville, Florida
- Sep 7 Corbin Bernsen, American actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law), born in North Hollywood, California
- Sep 7 Michael Emerson, American actor (Person of Interest), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Sep 8 Clayton Norcross, American actor (Bold & Beautiful, Colbys, Santa Barbara), born in Arcadia, California
- Sep 8 Mark Foley, American politician (Rep-(R)-Florida 1995-2006), resigned after texting scandal, born in Newton, Massachusetts
- Sep 8 Ruby Bridges, American civil rights activist (child who ended segregation of a Louisiana school), born in Tylertown, Mississippi
- Sep 9 Jeffrey Combs, American actor, born in Oxnard, California
- Sep 9 Walter Davis, American basketball shooting guard (6 x NBA All-Star; NBA Rookie of the Year 1978; Olympic gold 1976; Phoenix Suns, Denver Nuggets), born in Pineville, North Carolina (d. 2023)
- Sep 10 Cynthia Lummis, American politician, (Rep-R-WYO) first woman representative from Wyoming, born in Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Sep 10 Martha Nause, American golfer (du Maurier Classic 1994), born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Sep 11 Reed Birney, American actor (Greatest Man in the World), born in Alexandria, Virginia
- Sep 12 Jeff Jarvis, American journalist (This Week in Google) and advocate for the Open Web
- Sep 12 Neal Brendel, American rugby union prop (6 Tests; Pittsburgh RC) and executive (Chairman USA Rugby 2002-05), born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania (d. 2021)
- Sep 12 Russell G. Alexander, creator of Today In History v1.2
- Sep 13 Denis "Den" Hegarty, Irish doo-wop singer (The Darts - "The Boy From New York City"), born in Dublin, Ireland
- Sep 13 Steve Kilbey, English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player (The Church), born in Welwyn Garden City, England
- Sep 13 Teddy Mueller, American rock drummer (Axe), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2012)
- Sep 14 Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills - "We Can Fly"), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 2005)
- Sep 15 Adrian Adonis [Keith A. Franke Jr.], American professional wrestler, born in New York City (d. 1988)
- Sep 15 Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and newspaper editor (Agos), born in Malatya, Turkey (d. 2007)
- Sep 15 John Hervey, 7th marquess of Bristol, English flamboyant peer who lost his fortune to drug addiction, born in Bury St Edmunds, England (d. 1999)
- Sep 16 Colin Newman, English musician (Wire), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- Sep 16 Frank Reed, American singer (Chi-Lites), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2014)
- Sep 17 Joël-François Durand, French classical composer, born in Orléans, France
- Sep 18 Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician, born in Karachi, Pakistan (d. 1996)
- Sep 18 Steven Pinker, Canadian American cognitive psychologist and author, born in Montreal, Canada
- Sep 18 Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut (STS 87), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Sep 18 Tommy Tuberville, American football coach and politician (Senator-R-Alabama 2021-), born in Camden, Arkansas
- Sep 19 Carine Roitfeld, French fashion editor (Vogue Paris), born in Paris, France
- Sep 19 Mark Drakeford, Welsh politician (First Minister of Wales 2018-), born in Carmarthen, Wales
- Sep 19 Ted Jensen, American audio mastering engineer (The Eagles; Billy Joel; Norah Jones; Greenday), born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Sep 20 Anne Mcintosh, British member of European parliament, born in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
- Sep 20 Brinke Stevens [Charlene Brinkman], American actress (Slumber Party Massacre), born in San Diego, California
- Sep 20 Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner (Anaheim Ducks), born in Buffalo, New York
Lloyd Blankfein (69 years old)
Sep 20 American CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, born in New York City
- Sep 20 Peter White, British rock and smooth jazz guitarist, and songwriter (Al Stewart), born in Luton, England
- Sep 20 Silvio Leonard, Cuban 100m runner (Olympic silver 1980), born in Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Sep 21 Julia Grant [previously George Roberts], British transgender activist featured in "A Change of Sex", born in Blackpool, England (d. 2019)
- Sep 21 Philthy Animal [Phil Taylor], English rock drummer (Motorhead), born in Hasland, Chesterfield (d. 2015)
Shinzō Abe (1954-2022)
Sep 21 Prime Minister of Japan (2006-07 and 2012-2020), born in Nagato, Japan
- Sep 22 Randy Lanier, American auto racer (IMSA Camel GT 1984; convicted drug trafficker 1988), born in Lynchburg, Virginia
- Sep 22 Shari Belafonte Harper, American actress (Julie-Hotel), born in New York City
- Sep 23 Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
- Sep 23 Cherie Blair [née Booth], English wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, born in Bury, England
- Sep 24 Ashton Carter, American military civilian official (Secretary of Defense, 2015-17), and academic administrator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
- Sep 24 Helen Lederer, British comic actress (Absolutely Fabulous - "Catriona"), and writer (Losing It), born in Carmarthen, Wales
- Sep 24 Stephen Jones, English art historian, born in London, England (d. 1996)
- Sep 25 Juande Ramos, Spanish football manager (Sevilla), born in Pedro Muñoz, Spain
- Sep 25 Sylvester Croom, American college football coach, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Sep 26 César Rosas, Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist (Los Lobos - "Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)"), born in Hermosillo, Mexico
- Sep 26 Craig Chaquico, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship - "Jane"; "Find Your Way Back"), born in Sacramento, California
- Sep 27 Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
- Sep 28 George Lynch, American rock guitarist (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations), born in Spokane, Washington
- Sep 28 Steve Largent, American politician (US Rep-R-Oklahoma 1994-2002) and NFL player (Seattle Seahawks), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Sep 29 Cindy Morgan [Cichorski], American actress (Tron), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 29 Steve Platt, British journalist and magazine editor (New Statesman & Society)
- Sep 30 Barry Williams, American actor (Greg-Brady Bunch), born in Santa Monica, California
- Sep 30 Calvin Levels, American actor (Knightwatch), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Sep 30 John Drew, American basketball small forward (NBA All-Star 1976, 80; Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz), born in Vredenburgh, Alabama (d. 2022)
- Sep 30 Patrice Rushen, American jazz and R&B pianist and singer and songwriter ("Forget Me Nots"), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Weddings
Jerry Stiller
Sep 14 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry
Shirley MacLaine
Sep 17 Film and theater actress Shirley MacLaine (20) weds Steve Parker in New York City
Audrey Hepburn
Sep 25 British "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds American actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock, Switzerland; divorce in 1968
Famous Deaths
- Sep 3 Eugene Pallette, American actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro), dies at 65
- Sep 5 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, dies at 94
- Sep 7 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff), dies at 69
- Sep 9 Alfred Gradstein, Polish composer, dies at 49
- Sep 10 Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies at 46
- Sep 11 Licinio Refice, Italian priest and composer (Cecilia), dies at 69
- Sep 19 Tibor Harsányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor who settled Paris, France, dies at 56
- Sep 21 Kōkichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor and entrepreneur (cultured pearls), dies at 96
- Sep 24 Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner who committed suicide due to housing bureaucracy scandal, hangs himself at 53
- Sep 25 Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish Catalan essayist and philosopher, dies at 71
- Sep 26 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1890), dies at 86
- Sep 27 Maximilian von Weichs, German aristocrat and army officer (WWII Field Marshal; WWI Cavalryman), dies at 72
- Sep 28 Bert Lytell, American actor (One Man's Family), dies at 69
- Sep 28 George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist, dies at 80
- Sep 29 William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet and scholar, dies at 73
