- Sep 1 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
- Sep 1 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
F1 World Champion
Sep 2 British Ferrari driver Peter Collins sportingly hands over his car to retired teammate Juan Manuel Fangio during season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; Fangio finishes 2nd to win F1 World Drivers Championship
- Sep 2 Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
- Sep 2 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina finishes 2nd in Italian GP at Monza to win his 3rd straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
- Sep 2 San Francisco Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
Sports History
Sep 3 American Johnny Longden becomes thoroughbred racing's winningest rider, breaking the record of 4,870 wins by British jockey Sir Gordon Richards; rides Arrogate to victory in the Del Mar Handicap
#1 in the Charts
Sep 8 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso" goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
- Sep 9 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms
Elvis on TV
Sep 9 Elvis Presley appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the 1st time
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 9 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall wins his first US singles title, beating Lew Hoad 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 9 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Shirley Fry Irvin beats Althea Gibson 6-3, 6-4 for her only US singles crown
- Sep 10 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
- Sep 10 Public schools integrate in Louisville, Kentucky
- Sep 10 WSYE (now WETM) TV channel 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
Sports History
Sep 11 Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
Baseball Record
Sep 11 New York Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
IBM 305 RAMAC
Sep 14 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
- Sep 17 Black students enter Clay elementary school in Kentucky
- Sep 17 Television is first broadcast in Australia
- Sep 17 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
Baseball Record
Sep 18 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a season
- Sep 19 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
- Sep 21 New York Yankees set dubious MLB record, stranding 20 on base; Mickey Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but rival Boston Red Sox win 13-9 at Fenway Park
- Sep 25 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
- Sep 25 Transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban
- Sep 27 Great Britain commences 'Operation Buffalo' testing four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga, South Australia
Television Finale
Sep 28 "Johnny Carson Show" TV Variety last airs on CBS-TV
- Sep 28 RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
- Sep 29 "Oh! Susanna" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 Music single "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
- Sep 29 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
- Sep 30 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
- Sep 30 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
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