Historical Events
- Sep 1 Japanese runner Hiromi Taniguchi wins the marathon in 2:14:57 at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan
- Sep 1 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
Ropin' the Wind
Sep 2 "Ropin' the Wind" 3rd studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1992)
Telethon
Sep 2 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
- Sep 2 US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
- Sep 3 48th Venice Film Festival: "Close to Eden" directed by Nikita Mikhalkov wins Golden Lion
Baseball Record
Sep 4 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth's 60) & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
The Most Happy Fella
Sep 4 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater, NYC, for a limited run by the New York City Opera
- Sep 4 Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
- Sep 5 8th MTV Video Music Awards: REM wins
Event of Interest
Sep 5 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress
- Sep 6 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
- Sep 6 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
- Sep 6 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- Sep 6 USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
- Sep 7 "The New WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom sequel created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts in syndication; 3 members of the original series cast reprise their roles
- Sep 7 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
- Sep 7 Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
- Sep 7 Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 7 US Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles of Yugoslavia wins her first US title; beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1
- Sep 8 Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
- Sep 8 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 8 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0
Sports History
Sep 9 Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington
- Sep 9 Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
- Sep 10 Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
Event of Interest
Sep 10 US Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination to the US Supreme Court
- Sep 11 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
- Sep 11 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
- Sep 11 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
- Sep 11 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
Sports History
Sep 12 Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win
- Sep 12 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
- Sep 13 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
Sports History
Sep 13 Joe Carter 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays)
- Sep 13 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
- Sep 14 16th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Fisher King" directed by Terry Gilliam wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 14 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
- Sep 14 San Diego State freshman running back Marshall Faulk rushes for NCAA record 386 yards and scores 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific, 55-34
- Sep 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 15 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
- Sep 15 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Vancouver GC: Nancy Scranton wins by 3 shots from Debbie Massey
- Sep 15 US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
- Sep 16 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
- Sep 16 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
Event of Interest
Sep 16 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
- Sep 17 4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
- Sep 17 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet
- Sep 17 UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia
- Sep 18 American Major League Baseball executive John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
- Sep 18 NCAA places Tennessee on 2 years probation for football recruiting violations
- Sep 18 Robert Helmick resigns as president of US Olympic Committee
- Sep 18 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
- Sep 18 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
- Sep 19 Colt Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug at Delaware, Ohio
- Sep 19 Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps - oldest surviving corpse from Europe
- Sep 20 Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
- Sep 21 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
- Sep 21 USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics
- Sep 22 ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
- Sep 22 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
- Sep 22 Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500
- Sep 22 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
- Sep 24 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
- Sep 24 After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West
Sports History
Sep 24 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
- Sep 24 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
- Sep 25 "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
Sports History
Sep 25 3rd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m
Event of Interest
Sep 27 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
- Sep 28 "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
- Sep 28 "Good Time" single by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85
- Sep 28 "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5
- Sep 28 "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
- Sep 28 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
- Sep 28 UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
My Own Private Idaho
Sep 29 Gus Van Sant's film "My Own Private Idaho" starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix premieres
- Sep 29 Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month
Ryder Cup
Sep 29 Ryder Cup Golf, Kiahwa Island GR: US beats Europe, 14½-13½; Bernhard Langer misses 6-foot par putt which would have clinched 14-all tie and retained Cup for Europe
Jerry Springer
Sep 30 Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show "Jerry Springer" debuts on TV (syndicated)
- Sep 30 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 4 Carter Jenkins, American actor, born in Tampa, Florida
- Sep 4 Dwayne Verheyden, Dutch conjunto and Tejano accordionist (TexMeXplosion), born in Montfort, Netherlands
- Sep 5 Skandar Keynes, English actor (The Chronicles of Narnia film series), born in London, England
- Sep 8 Joe Sugg, English Youtuber and actor (Strictly Come Dancing), born in Lacock, England
- Sep 9 Fai Khadra, Saudi-born model and singer, born in Saudi Arabia
- Sep 9 Kelsey Asbille, American actress (Yellowstone), born in Columbia, South Carolina
- Sep 11 Kygo [Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll] Norwegian DJ and music producer ("I See Fire" remix), born in Singapore
- Sep 19 Demelza Reveley, Australian model who won the 4th season of Australia's Next Top Model, born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- Sep 20 Spencer Locke, American actress
- Sep 21 Ingrid Andress, American country music singer ("More Hearts Than Mine"), born in Southfield, Michigan
- Sep 21 Jordan Hasay, American track and field athlete
- Sep 25 Shin Lim, Canadian-American magician (America's Got Talent), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Sep 27 Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
- Sep 27 Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player (French Open 2018, Wimbledon 2019), born in Constanța, Romania
Famous Weddings
John Travolta
Sep 5 American "Saturday Night Fever" actor John Travolta (37) weds American actress Kelly Preston (28) at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, France, until her death in 2020
- Sep 7 American actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Nicollette Sheridan
- Sep 12 American actor John Travolta (37) weds American actress Kelly Preston (28) (again) in Daytona Beach, Florida
Magic Johnson
Sep 15 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
Willie Nelson
Sep 16 American country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson (58) weds fourth wife American make-up artist Annie D'Angelo (35) in Nashville, Tennessee
David Mamet
Sep 22 American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon
Kate Jackson
Sep 29 Actress Kate Jackson (42) weds ski-lodge entrepreneur Tom Hart in Brentwood
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director and actress (Jane Eyre, Barocco), dies at 76
- Sep 1 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
- Sep 1 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
- Sep 2 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
- Sep 2 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
Sep 3 Italian-AmericanAcademy Award-winning film director (It's a Wonderful Life; It Happened One Nigh; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 94
- Sep 4 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77
- Sep 4 Dottie West [Dorothy Marsh], American country singer ("Here Comes My Baby"; with Kenny Rogers - "What Are We Doin' in Love"), dies from internal injuries sustained in a car crash at 58
- Sep 4 Henri de Lubac, French Jesuit cardinal and theologist of the "new theology” movement that influenced the Second Vatican Council, dies at 95
- Sep 4 Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies
- Sep 4 Tom Tryon, American actor (The Cardinal, All That Glitters, The Longest Day) and novelist (The Other), dies of stomach cancer at 65
- Sep 6 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- Sep 6 Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), executed in the electric chair at 58
- Sep 7 Archie Menzies, English playwright and composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
- Sep 7 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
- Sep 7 John Crosby, American columnist and detective writer dies at 79
- Sep 7 John H. Lawrence, American physician (nuclear medicine pioneer), dies at 87
- Sep 8 Alex North [Isadore Soifer], American composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata), dies of cancer at 80 [1]
- Sep 8 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
- Sep 8 Jan Józef Lipski, Polish historian and anti-communist dissident (Polish Socialist Party), dies at 65
- Sep 9 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83
- Sep 9 Joop Zwart, Dutch political activist and resistance fighter, dies at 78
- Sep 9 Paul Michael Lombardi, American actor (The Fisher King), dies of AIDS at 31
- Sep 10 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83
- Sep 11 Ernst Herbeck, German Poet, dies at 70
- Sep 12 Regis Toomey, American actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction), dies at 93
- Sep 13 Ferry Barendse, Dutch trumpeter, composer, and singer (Ramblers), dies at 80
- Sep 13 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
- Sep 13 Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
- Sep 13 Paul Thompson, Canadian ice hockey forward (1926-39), won 3 Stanley Cups (1928 with NY Rangers, 1934 and 1938 with Chicago Black Hawks), and Black Hawks coach (1938-45), dies at 84
- Sep 14 Julie Bovasso, American actress (Willie & Phil, Just Me & You), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 14 Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
- Sep 15 Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
- Sep 15 John Hoyt [Hoysradt], American stage and screen actor (Mercury theatre; Gimme a Break!; Tom, Dick & Mary), and comedian, dies of lung cancer at 85
- Sep 15 Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Georgian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 16 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
- Sep 17 John Thomas, American co-inventor of fiberglass, dies at 83 [1]
- Sep 17 René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti, French concert violinist (NY Philharmonic-1939), dies at 89
- Sep 18 Rob Tyner [Robert Derminer], American hard rock singer (MC5 - Kick Out The Jams), dies of a heart attack at 46
- Sep 21 Angelo Rossitto, American dwarf actor (known as "Little Moe", Carousel), dies at 83
- Sep 22 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies at 91
- Sep 22 Reynold Abel Dorris, American Sioux Indian (subject of book "Broken Cord"), dies at 23 after being struck by a car
- Sep 23 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
- Sep 23 Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Sep 24 American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham), dies of cancer at 87
- Sep 24 Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
- Sep 24 Peter Bellamy, English folk singer, commits suicide at 47
Klaus Barbie (1913-1991)
Sep 25 German Gestapo chief (Butcher of Lyon), dies of cancer at 77
- Sep 25 Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and ethnographer of Cuban folklore and Afro-Cuban culture, dies at 92 [1]
- Sep 25 Max Koot, Dutch royal photographer, dies at 74
- Sep 25 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), dies at 79
- Sep 26 Billy Vaughn, American singer, saxophonist, and bandleader ("Sail Along Sil'vry Moon"), dies of stomach cancer at 72
- Sep 27 Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
- Sep 27 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
- Sep 27 Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill and wife of Charlie Chaplin, dies at 66
- Sep 27 Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (Lost Season), dies at 79
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Sep 28 American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (Kinda Blue; Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet; Sketches of Spain), dies of pneumonia at 65
- Sep 29 Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated
- Sep 29 Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese jazz musician, dies
- Sep 30 Frank Ervin, American harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66), dies at 87
- Sep 30 Nancy Welford, British-born American actress (Gold Diggers of Broadway), dies at 87
