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
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
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