Historical Events
Burns KOs Lang
Sep 3 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Australian Bill Lang in 6 rounds in Melbourne in a warmup fight for his famous title bout with Jack Johnson
- Sep 3 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows" premieres in London
- Sep 5 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 at Washington Park, Brooklyn
1st One Hour Flight
Sep 9 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia
- Sep 9 Russia annexes part of Poland
- Sep 12 Canada appoints a Civil Service Commission, initiating a more equitable system for selecting civil servants
- Sep 16 Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
- Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
- Sep 18 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
Mahler's 7th Symphony
Sep 19 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
- Sep 20 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
- Sep 22 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
- Sep 23 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
- Sep 23 University of Alberta opens
- Sep 24 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
- Sep 26 MLB Chicago Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout, winning 3-0 and 5-0 over the Superbas at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York
1st Model T Produced
Sep 27 Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan
- Sep 29 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
L'Oiseau bleu
Sep 30 Maurice Maeterlinck's play "L'Oiseau bleu" (The Blue Bird) premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (1 Test India, 5 Tests Pakistan), Lahore, Punjab (d. 1980)
- Sep 1 Jean Crepin, French general and head of Nord Aviation (oversaw development of Exocet missiles), born in Barnaville, France (d. 1996)
- Sep 3 Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1988)
- Sep 4 Edward Dmytryk, Canadian film director (Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny), born in Grand Forks, Canada (d. 1999)
- Sep 4 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children), born in Roxie, Mississippi (d. 1960)
- Sep 5 Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, born in Gotizia, Austria-Hungary (d. 2019)
- Sep 5 Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2004)
- Sep 6 Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London (d. 1995)
- Sep 6 Louis Essen, British physicist (time measurement, speed of light determination), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1997)
- Sep 6 Paul Lavalle, American bandleader (Cities Service Band of America), born in Beacon, New York (d. 1997)
- Sep 7 Max Kaminsky, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Max Kaminsky Orchestra), born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 1994)
- Sep 7 Michael DeBakey, Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon and artificial heart pioneer, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana (d. 2008)
Paul Brown (1908-1991)
Sep 7 American NFL hall of fame coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), born in Norwalk, Ohio
- Sep 8 Geoffrey Hodges, British bomb disposal expert (d. 1996)
- Sep 8 Johnny Lindsay, South African cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests, 5 dismissals; North Eastern Transvaal), born in Barkly East, South Africa (d. 1990)
- Sep 9 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate), born in Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy (d. 1950)
- Sep 9 John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team's flag bearer 1948), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1976)
- Sep 10 Raymond Scott [Harry Warnow], American composer ('The Toy Trumpet'), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1994)
- Sep 10 Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (Great Plains prehistoric cultures), born in Newton, Kansas (d. 1996)
- Sep 11 Everhardus Jacobus van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, born in Willemstad, Curaçao (d. 1960)
- Sep 13 (Leon) "Chu" Berry, American swing jazz tenor saxophonist (Fletcher Henderson; Cab Calloway), born in Wheeling, West Virginia (d. 1941)
- Sep 13 Ray Green, American composer and publisher, born in Cavendish, Missouri (d. 1997)
- Sep 14 Bernie Green, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show), born in New York City (d. 1975)
- Sep 15 Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain), born in Oberriexingen, Germany (d. 1976)
- Sep 15 Penny Singleton, American actress (Blondie) and voice actress (Jane-Jetsons), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
- Sep 16 Beecher Moore, British sailor, born in Rochester, New York (d. 1996)
- Sep 17 Franz Grothe, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1982)
- Sep 18 Victor Ambartsumian, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50), born in Tiflis, Russian Empire (d. 1996)
- Sep 19 Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (The Egyptian), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1979)
- Sep 19 Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist and founder of Isshinryu Karate, born in Gushikawa, Okinawa, Japan (d. 1975)
- Sep 20 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982)
- Sep 25 Eugen Suchoň, Slovak organist and composer (Krútňava (The Whirlpool); Psalm of the Carpathian Lands; Kaleidoscope), and music educator, born in Pezinok, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1993)
- Sep 27 Shiv Verma, Indian revolutionary soldier (d. 1997)
- Sep 28 Marin Goleminov, Bulgarian violinist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria (d. 2000)
- Sep 29 Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (2 Golds 1932 Olympics), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1967)
- Sep 29 Norman Anderson, English lawyer, missionary and Arabist, born in Aldeburgh, England (d. 1994)
- Sep 30 David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist considered one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century (Moscow Conservatory), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
- Sep 30 Edzard Schaper, German author (Der Henker 'The Hangman'; The Fourth King) who wrote about Estonia and Christianity and was sentenced to death by both the Soviet Union and Germany, born in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, German Empire (d. 1984)
- Sep 30 Herbert Maxwell Strong, American physicist and inventor (1st to synthesize diamonds as part of Project Superpressure), born in Wooster, Ohio (d. 2002) [1]
Famous Weddings
Robert Falcon Scott
Sep 2 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England
Winston Churchill
Sep 12 Politician Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
Famous Deaths
- Sep 3 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Dutch jurist and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1888-93), dies at 61
- Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge, early American aviator, 1st person to die in an air crash at 26
- Sep 18 Dickey Pearce, American baseball shortstop (pioneer shortstop position; introduced bunt) and manager (NY Mutuals, St. Louis Brown Stockings), dies at 72
- Sep 20 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), dies at 64
- Sep 23 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, dies at 74
- Sep 29 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Epitaph of a small winner), dies at 69
