What Happened in September 1988

Events 1 - 100 of 123

• Sep 1 Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London

• Sep 3 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

• Sep 4 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
• Sep 5 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception

• Sep 6 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
• Sep 6 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Channel
• Sep 6 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 7 5th MTV Video Music Awards: INXS wins

• Sep 7 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
• Sep 7 Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
• Sep 8 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m
• Sep 8 NL president A. Bartlett Giamatti is unanimously elected Major League Baseball's 7th Commissioner
• Sep 9 "Look Away" single released by Chicago (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
• Sep 9 MLB Atlanta Braves Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers & Gooses Gossage with 300 MLB career saves
• Sep 9 US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose
• Sep 10 -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
• Sep 10 Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minnesota), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989

• Sep 11 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
• Sep 11 Lost steamship 'the Ship of Gold' SS Central America, sunk in 1857, rediscovered in waters off North Carolina by group led by Tommy Gregory Thompson using Bayesian search theory [1]
• Sep 11 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world

• Sep 12 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
• Sep 12 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
• Sep 13 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
• Sep 13 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
• Sep 13 Gilbert is measured the strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane ever in the Western Hemisphere
• Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Sep 15 Lillehammer, Norway, upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
• Sep 15 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
• Sep 15 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
• Sep 16 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats LA Dodgers, 1-0
• Sep 16 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
• Sep 16 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
• Sep 16 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
• Sep 17 13th Toronto International Film Festival: "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" directed by Pedro Almodovar wins the People's Choice Award
• Sep 17 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
• Sep 17 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
• Sep 18 Burma suspends its constitution
• Sep 18 Coup in Haiti: General Prosper Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
• Sep 18 Magna Charta Universitatum signed to celebrate university traditions and mark 900th anniversary of the founding of Bologna University, the oldest in the world

• Sep 19 Australian swimmer Duncan Armstrong sets world record 1:47.25 to win the 200m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats Anders Holmertz of Sweden by 0.64

• Sep 19 British swimmer Adrian Moorehouse wins 100m breaststroke gold medal in 1:02.04 at the Seoul Olympics; edges Károly Güttler of Hungary by 0.01
• Sep 19 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
• Sep 19 US women's all-round gymnastics team is controversially penalised 0.5 after compulsory round at the Seoul Olympics; substitute an alternate athlete on uneven bars medal podium; Americans finish 4th just 0.3 behind East Germany
• Sep 20 "Loving Proof" second studio album by Ricky Van Shelton is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
• Sep 20 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 3m springboard gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after famously hitting his head on the board the previous day

• Sep 20 Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #18 in Tigers' 4-3 loss to Cleveland Indians; Evans' 400th MLB career HR
• Sep 21 East German swimmer Silke Hörner sets world record 2:26.71 to win the 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; first of 2 gold (4 x 100m medley relay)
• Sep 21 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi sets world record 4:14.75 to win the 400m individual medley at the Seoul Olympics; also wins 200m I/M gold for the medley double
• Sep 21 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville, New Jersey home

• Sep 22 American swimmer Janet Evans sets a world record 4:03.85 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; 3rd gold medal of the Games (400m I/M, 800m)
• Sep 22 American swimmer Matt Biondi wins the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 48.63 at the Seoul Games; beats countryman Chris Jacobs & Stéphan Caron of France
• Sep 22 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
• Sep 22 South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
• Sep 22 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov wins individual all-round gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; follows his teams all-round victory; wins 4 gold for the Games
• Sep 23 Americans Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi swim world record 3:16.53 to win 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the Seoul Olympics
• Sep 23 East German swimmer Uwe Dassler sets world record 3:46.95 to win 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; edges Australian Duncan Armstrong by 0.2s
• Sep 23 Fiji's new constitution is proposed

• Sep 23 Premiere of director Paul Schrader's crime biopic "Patty Hearst"

• Sep 24 American swimmer Matt Biondi sets world record 22.14 to win the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; his 4th of 5 gold medals for the Games
• Sep 24 Barbara C. Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
• Sep 24 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100m in 9.79 sec

• Sep 24 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
• Sep 24 Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
• Sep 24 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
• Sep 24 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with teammate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
• Sep 24 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
• Sep 24 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal

• Sep 25 Americans sweep the medals in the long jump at the Seoul Olympics; Carl Lewis wins his second gold of the Games with leap of 8.72m ahead of teammates Mike Powell & Larry Myricks
• Sep 25 East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims Olympic record 25.49 to win the 50m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics; her 6th gold medal of the Games
• Sep 25 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games

• Sep 25 Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics to become the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games

• Sep 25 Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivaș wins 3 gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics; balance beam, floor exercise & uneven bars events; records record equalling 7 perfect scores of 10
• Sep 25 Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his 5th gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100m medley relay team
• Sep 26 Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
• Sep 26 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
• Sep 26 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
• Sep 26 Soviet throwers sweep the medals in the hammer throw at the Seoul Olympics; Sergey Litvinov wins gold with an Olympic record 84.80m ahead of teammates Yuriy Sedykh & Jüri Tamm
• Sep 26 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
• Sep 27 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 10m platform gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up diving double after also taking out the 3m springboard gold
• Sep 27 Canadian Finn class sailor Lawrence Lemieux abandons race 5 to assist injured competitor after being in 2nd place; selfless act is awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin medal
• Sep 27 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Olympics 100m after his urine sample found to contain steroid stanozolol; American Carl Lewis awarded gold medal and world record 9.92
• Sep 27 East German cyclist Olaf Ludwig wins the men's road race in 4:32:22 at the Seoul Olympics; beats West German pair Bernd Gröne & Christian Henn
• Sep 27 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story

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• Sep 1 Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricket batsman (75 Tests, 7 x 100s, TS 219*; Rajshahi Division), born in Bogra, Bangladesh
• Sep 2 Ishant Sharma, Indian cricket fast bowler (102 Tests, 306 wickets; 80 ODIs, 115 wickets; Sussex, Delhi Capitals), born in Delhi, India
• Sep 3 Carla Suárez Navarro, Spanish tennis player (2 WTA, 6 ITF titles), born in Las Palmas, Spain
• Sep 4 John Tyler Hammons, American politician, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
• Sep 7 Kevin Love, American basketball player, born in Santa Monica, California
• Sep 8 Arrelious Benn, American football wide receiver, born in Washington, D. C.
• Sep 8 Brittney Spencer, American country music singer–songwriter ("Sober & Skinny"), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Sep 8 Caitlin Hill, Australian YouTube personality (TheHill88), born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Sep 8 Chantal Jones, American fashion model, born in Austin, Texas
• Sep 10 Coco Rocha, Canadian model, born in Toronto, Ontario
• Sep 10 Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey center (World C'ship gold 2007; Stanley Cup 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins; Carolina Hurricanes captain), born in Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Sep 12 Aaron Sidwell, English actor and singer, born in Maidstone, Kent, England
• Sep 13 Keith Treacy, Irish footballer (Preston North End), born in Dublin, Ireland
• Sep 14 Kirsten Haglund, American activist and beauty queen (Miss America 2008), born in Farmington Hills, Michigan
• Sep 14 Martin Fourcade, French biathlete (5 Olympic gold 2014, 18), born in Perpignan, France
• Sep 14 Muni Long [Priscilla Hamilton], American singer-songwriter (Hrs and Hrs), born in Vero Beach, Florida

• Sep 15 (Yekaterina) "Kate" Grigorieva, Russian fashion model (Victoria's Secret), born in Olenegorsk, Murmansk, USSR
• Sep 15 Chelsea Staub, American actress (Jonas), born in Phoenix, Arizona
• Sep 16 Sarah Steele, American actress (The Good Wife), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Sep 16 Teddy Geiger, American singer and songwriter (Stitches - Shawn Mendes), born in Rochester, New York
• Sep 18 Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player and YouTuber, born in Sandnes, Norway
• Sep 18 Lukas Forchhammer, Danish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Lukas Graham - "7 Years"), born in Freetown Christiania, Denmark
• Sep 21 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
• Sep 22 Bethany Dillon, American Christian musician, born in Bellefontaine, Ohio

• Sep 24 Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player, born in Burnaby, British Columbia
• Sep 24 Lisa Wang, American gymnast, born in Madison, Wisconsin
• Sep 26 James Blake, English musician and singer-songwriter (Assume Form), born in Enfield, England
• Sep 26 Lilly Singh, Canadian YouTube vlogger (IISuperwomanII), born in Scarborough, Toronto
• Sep 26 Mark Simpson, British clarinetist and contemporary classical composer (Ariel; Israfel), born in Liverpool, England
• Sep 28 Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
• Sep 28 Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
• Sep 28 Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player (US Open 2014), born in Medjugorje, Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Sep 29 Justin Nozuka, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, born in New York City

• Sep 4 American "Footloose" actor Kevin Bacon (30) weds American actress Kyra Sedgwick (23)

• Sep 1 Leonor Sullivan, American politician (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
• Sep 2 Bill Northam, Australian yachtsman (Olympic gold 5.5m class 1964; Sport Australia HOF), dies at 82
• Sep 3 Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), dies at 76
• Sep 4 Oda Schaefer, German writer and journalist (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only), dies at 87
• Sep 5 Gert Fröbe [Karl Gerhart Fröbe], German actor (Goldfinger, Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies from a heart attack at 75
• Sep 5 Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
• Sep 6 Leroy Brown [Roland Daniels], American professional wrestler, dies after a stroke at 37
• Sep 11 George Alpert, American railroad executive (New Haven Line), dies at 90
• Sep 11 John Sylvester White, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 68
• Sep 11 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), dies of cancer at 77
• Sep 11 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), dies of a stroke at 53
• Sep 12 (Carlos) "Charlie" Palmieri, American salsa and charanga music bandleader, musical director, and piano player (Tito Puente; Alegre All-Stars), dies after a heart attack at 60
• Sep 12 Alan Bible, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78
• Sep 12 Lauris Norstad, American general (NATO commander) and CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass), dies at 71

• Sep 14 Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
• Sep 14 Melle Weersma, Dutch jazz arranger and composer ("Penny Serenade"), dies at 80
• Sep 19 Oren Lee Staley, American 1st President of the National Farmers Organization (1955-79), dies after a fall at 65
• Sep 20 Roy Kinnear, English actor (Man About the House, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
• Sep 21 Christine Norden, British actress (Little Shop of Horrors, Night Beat), dies from pneumonia at 63
• Sep 21 Glenn Robert Davis, American politician, dies at 73
• Sep 21 Henry Koster, German-born Hollywood director, discovered Abbott and Costello, dies at 83
• Sep 21 Robert Gwathmey, American social realist artist, dies at 85
• Sep 21 Walter Vogt, Swiss writer (Wüthrich) and psychiatrist, dies at 61
• Sep 22 Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst, dies at 74
• Sep 22 Rezső Sugár, Hungarian composer (Savonarola), and pedagogue, dies at 68
• Sep 23 Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 79
• Sep 23 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
• Sep 25 Billy Carter, brother of US President Jimmy Carter, dies of cancer at 51
• Sep 27 William V. Shannon, American journalist and ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
• Sep 28 Ethel Grandin, American silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94
• Sep 28 Marjorie Bonner Lowry, American actress (Reno, Poor Girls), wife of writer Malcolm Lowry, dies at 83
• Sep 29 Charles Addams, American artist and cartoonist (New Yorker, The Addams Family) known for darkly humorous and macabre characters, dies of a heart attack at 76
• Sep 30 Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), dies at 83
• Sep 30 Joachim Prinz, German-American Zionist leader, author and Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86