Gehrig Leads Yankee Win
Sep 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & 6th homer in consecutive games in NY Yankees' 5-1 win v Boston Red Sox
Debut of Bing Crosby
Sep 2 American crooner Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut on his "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" program broadcast on the CBS network
- Sep 10 Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable
Luciano has Maranzano Murdered
Sep 10 Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by one of Charles Luciano's hitmen at the Helmsley Building in New York City
Tennis Tournament
Sep 10 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott 7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5 for his first of 2 straight US singles titles
- Sep 13 British RAF pilot George Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
- Sep 13 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
- Sep 15 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
- Sep 15 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
- Sep 16 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
- Sep 16 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
- Sep 17 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
- Sep 17 Boston Red Sox outfielder Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 MLB doubles
- Sep 17 Operetta "Viktoria & Her Hussar" by Paul Abraham (adapted for English by Harry Graham) premieres in London at Palace Theatre
- Sep 18 The Mudken Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
- Sep 19 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
- Sep 19 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
PGA Championship
Sep 19 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Wannamoisett CC: 20-year-old American Tom Creavy beats Denny Shute, 2 & 1 in the final for his lone major title
- Sep 20 MLB's Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
- Sep 21 Britain abandons gold standard; pound devalues 20%
- Sep 22 Coalition Government forms in New Zealand to combat the Depression (their lack of success will lead to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935)
- Sep 24 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
Baseball History
Sep 27 Closest NL batting race ends; St. Louis Cardinals Chick Hafey's .34889 beats NY Giants Bill Terry .34861 [1]
- Sep 27 MLB's Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
- Sep 28 200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan in Peking
- Sep 30 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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