Historical Events
Roger and Me
Sep 1 "Roger and Me", the first documentary directed by Michael Moore, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival
Tennis Open
Sep 1 Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4
- Sep 1 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
Anything Goes
Sep 1 Revival of Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 804 performances
Bensonhurst Protest March
Sep 2 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
- Sep 3 American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory
- Sep 3 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
Into the Woods
Sep 3 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 764 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
- Sep 4 46th Venice Film Festival: "A City of Sadness" directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou debuts and wins the Golden Lion
Telethon
Sep 4 Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
- Sep 4 Monday demonstrations demanding political reforms begin at St Nicholas's church in Leipzig, East Germany, would later be replicated around the country
- Sep 5 Chris Evert's final US Open tennis match; defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in the quarter finals
The Joan Rivers Show
Sep 5 Daytime talk show "The Joan Rivers Show" hosted by Joan Rivers premieres on US TV
- Sep 5 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
- Sep 6 6th MTV Video Music Awards: Living Colour wins
- Sep 6 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
- Sep 6 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
Baseball Record
Sep 8 American MLB player George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
- Sep 8 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium
- Sep 8 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 9 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova 3-6, 7-5, 6-1
- Sep 10 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
- Sep 10 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia)
Sports History
Sep 10 Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first
Sports History
Sep 10 Indianapolis running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau; 91st career game
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 10 US Open Men's Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his only US title; beats Czech Ivan Lendl 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6
- Sep 11 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
- Sep 11 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
Event of Interest
Sep 13 Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
- Sep 13 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
- Sep 14 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
- Sep 14 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
- Sep 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 15 The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
- Sep 16 14th Toronto International Film Festival: "Roger & Me" directed by Michael Moore wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 16 Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
- Sep 17 -21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina
- Sep 17 41st Emmy Awards: "LA Law", "Cheers", Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
- Sep 17 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
- Sep 17 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
- Sep 18 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Sep 19 "Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
Sep 19 "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" 4th studio album by Janet Jackson is released (Grammy Award Best Long Form Music Video 1990, Billboard Album of the Year 1990)
- Sep 19 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
- Sep 19 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
- Sep 19 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
Miss Saigon
Sep 20 Musical "Miss Saigon" premieres in London, created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Baywatch
Sep 22 TV drama "Baywatch" starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts on NBC
- Sep 23 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
- Sep 24 ABC's premiere of "The Preppie Murder", based on 1986 murder in New York City of Jennifer Levin by ex prep school student Robert Chambers
- Sep 24 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
- Sep 25 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
Baseball Record
Sep 25 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
- Sep 25 Ronald Harwood's play "Another Time" premieres in London
- Sep 26 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
Event of Interest
Sep 26 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons
- Sep 27 Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
- Sep 27 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
Music History
Sep 29 Glenn Frey joins Eagles bandmate Don Henley on stage, for 1st time since 1981
Zsa Zsa Gabor Convicted
Sep 29 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
- Sep 30 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
Nolan Ryan's 300th Strikeout
Sep 30 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout
- Sep 30 Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal
- Sep 30 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
- Sep 30 West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher grants escaping East Germans free passage to the West in speech from West German embassy balcony in Prague
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Bill Kaulitz, Germany singer-songwriter (Tokio Hotel), born in Leipzig, East Germany
- Sep 1 Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Sep 2 Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
- Sep 2 Ishmeet Singh [Sodhi], Indian playback singer (Voice of India, 2007), born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India (d. 2008)
- Sep 5 Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player (Washington Mystics), born in Wilmington, Delaware
- Sep 5 Kat Graham, American actress and singer (The Vampire Diaries), born in Geneva, Switzerland
- Sep 6 Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer, born in Polygyros, Greece
- Sep 7 Hannah John-Kamen, British actress (Killjoys), born in Anlaby, Humberside, England
- Sep 7 Jonathan Majors, American actor (Lovecraft Country), born in Lompoc, California
Avicii (1989-2018)
Sep 8 Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer ("Levels"; "Wake Me Up"; "Sunshine"), born in Stockholm, Sweden
- Sep 8 Domee Shi, Chinese-Canadian animator (first woman to direct a Pixar movie), director and screenwriter (Turning Red), born in Chongqing, China
- Sep 8 Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer (Everton, Iceland), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Sep 8 Wiz Khalifa [Cameron Thomaz] American rapper (See You Again), born in Minot, North Dakota
- Sep 12 Andrew Luck, American NFL player (Indianapolis Colts), born in Washington D.C.
- Sep 13 Precious Lee, American model, born in Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas Müller (34 years old)
Sep 13 German soccer forward (winner FIFA World Cup 2014; Bayern Munich), born in Weilheim in Oberbayern, Germany
- Sep 14 Jesse James, American actor (The Amityville Horror), born in Palm Springs, California
- Sep 14 Jimmy Butler, American basketball small forward (Olympic gold 2016; NBA All-Star 2015–18, 20, 22; Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat), born in Houston, Texas
- Sep 14 Tony Finau, American golfer (Ryder Cup 2018; British Open 2019 3rd), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Sep 17 Danielle Brooks, American actress (Orange is the New Black), born in Augusta, Georgia
- Sep 17 Jonathan McReynolds, American gospel musician (Make Room), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 20 Malachi Kirby, English actor (Small Axe), born in London, England
- Sep 21 Jason Derulo, American singer-songwriter ("Whatcha Say"; "Wiggle"), and dancer, born in Miramar, Florida
- Sep 21 Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins, American skateboarder
- Sep 26 Emma Rigby, English actress, born in St Helens, United Kingdom
- Sep 26 Jonny Bairstow, English cricket wicket-keeper (only English wicket-keeper to twice claim 9 dismissals in a Test match; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England
- Sep 27 Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
- Sep 28 Mark Randall, English footballer, born in Milton Keynes
- Sep 29 Adore Delano [Daniel Noriega], American drag queen, singer-songwriter, actor and TV performer (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Azusa, California
Famous Weddings
Michael Jordan
Sep 2 NBA basketball star Michael Jordan (26) weds Juanita Vanoy (30) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Björn Borg
Sep 4 Tennis star Björn Borg (33) weds second wife Italian rock singer Loredana Berté (39) in a civil wedding; divorce in 1993
Natalie Cole
Sep 16 American pop singer Natalie Cole (39) weds second husband American "Rufus" drummer and record producer André Fisher; divorce in 1995
Ivan Lendl
Sep 16 Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl (29) weds Samantha Frankel (21) in Greenwich, Connecticut
Zina Garrison
Sep 23 American tennis ace Zina Garrison (25) weds American businessman Willard Jackson (25) at the Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas; divorce in 1997
Larry Bird
Sep 30 NBA legend Larry Bird (32) weds long-time girlfriend Dinah Mattingly in Terre Haute, Indiana
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American MLB Commissioner (1989) and President of Yale University (1978-86), dies of a heart attack at 51
- Sep 1 Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
- Sep 3 Gaetano Scirea, Italian soccer defender (78 caps, FIFA World Cup 1982; Juventus 377 games), dies in a car accident at 36
- Sep 3 Rip Sewell, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1943–46; NL wins leader 1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1938–49), dies at 82
- Sep 4 Georges Simenon, Belgian born writer and director (Maigret detective novels), dies at 86
- Sep 4 Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian, dies at 86
- Sep 9 Tim Hovey, American child actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose at 44
- Sep 10 Jeff Stollmeyer, West Indian cricket batsman (32 Tests 4 x 100, HS 160; Trinidad & Tobago) and executive (President WI Board of Control 1974-81), dies from wounds suffered in home invasion at 68
- Sep 12 Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney (SWAPO), murdered at 37
- Sep 13 Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
- Sep 14 Eddie McLeod, New Zealand cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies at 88
- Sep 14 [Dámaso] Pérez Prado, Cuban bandleader and musician, dies of a stroke at 71
- Sep 15 Harry Cave, New Zealand cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies at 66
- Sep 15 Jan DeGaetani, American contemporary classical concert mezzo-soprano, dies of leukemia at 56
- Sep 15 Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist (All the King's Men, Pulitzer 1946), dies at 84
- Sep 17 Jay Stewart, American TV and Radio announcer (Let's Make a Deal), commits suicide at 71 by shooting himself in the carport of his home
Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989)
Sep 28 10th President of the Philippines (1965-86), dictator and kleptocrat, dies in Honolulu of heart, lung and kidney disease at 72
- Sep 28 John Gart, Russian-American orchestra leader, composer (Robert Montgomery Presents), and actor (Paul Winchell Show), dies at 84
- Sep 29 August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr., American brewing magnate (chairman Anheuser-Busch 1946-75) and baseball executive (owner St. Louis Cardinals 1953-89), dies at 90
- Sep 30 Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (Four Saints in Three Acts; Louisiana Story), dies at 92
- Sep 30 William Fairbank, American physicist (superconductivity), dies at 72
