- Sep 1 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds
- Sep 2 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- Sep 2 Hendrik Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
- Sep 2 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 2 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
- Sep 2 National Defense Education Act was signed
- Sep 2 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
Doctor Zhivago
Sep 5 "Doctor Zhivago" novel by Boris Pasternak published in US
The Huckleberry Hound Show
Sep 5 "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV
- Sep 5 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Sep 5 WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 6 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
- Sep 6 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 7 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ashley Cooper outlasts fellow Australian Mal Anderson 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6 for his 3rd Grand Slam event win of the year
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 7 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Sep 8 Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan
Baseball Record
Sep 8 Pirate Roberto Clemente ties modern record of 3 triples in a game
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit (IC) to his supervisor
- Sep 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Little Rock Crisis
Sep 12 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate
Baseball History
Sep 13 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
Dutch History
Sep 13 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
- Sep 14 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
- Sep 14 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sports History
Sep 14 Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel
Sports History
Sep 20 Baltimore Oriole knuckleball pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0
- Sep 20 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
- Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 21 American pilots Jim Heth and Bill Burkhart complete 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours (50 days, 16 minutes), landing "The Old Scotchman", their modified Cessna 172 in Dallas, Texas; record broken 123 days later [1]
- Sep 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 22 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 22 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the Pole (record)
- Sep 23 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- Sep 23 Stravinsky's "Thieni" premieres in Venice
- Sep 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 24 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
- Sep 24 Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
- Sep 26 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup
- Sep 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 28 France adopts constitution
- Sep 28 Guinea votes for independence from France
- Sep 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 28 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's
- Sep 29 "Studio One" TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8 in US; #18 in UK
- Sep 29 "Texan" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 30 French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea
- Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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