- Sep 1 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
- Sep 1 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
- Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Radio Premiere
Sep 4 Carol Burnett-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
- Sep 4 US authorizes Agency for International Development
Event of Interest
Sep 5 America begins underground nuclear testing
- Sep 5 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
- Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
- Sep 8 Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
- Sep 9 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 10 75th US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Darlene Hard beats England's Ann Jones 6-3, 6-4
- Sep 10 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
- Sep 10 Italian F1 Grand Prix, Monza: a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators hit by his Ferrari
Sports History
Sep 10 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 10 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Roy Emerson beats Rod Laver 7-5, 6-3, 6-2; Emerson's second Grand Slam title
- Sep 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 11 Founding of the World Wildlife Fund in Morges, Switzerland
- Sep 11 Hurricane Carla strikes near Port O'Connor, Texas with winds of 175 mph
Event of Interest
Sep 12 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
- Sep 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 13 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
- Sep 13 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 15 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus aged 21
- Sep 16 CDU loses West German election
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 16 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 17 "Car 54, Where are You?" premieres on US TV
Sports History
Sep 17 Fran Tarkenton plays his first NFL Game against the Chicago Bears, coming off the bench to lead the Vikings to a 37-13 victory, also becoming the only QB to throw four touchdown passes in his first career game
- Sep 17 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
- Sep 17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Transair Sweden DC-6 passenger aircraft chartered by the United Nations for transit to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis, crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), killing 16, including UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others; official inquiries never determined the cause
- Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 19 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
Event of Interest
Sep 20 African-American student James Meredith is refused enrolment to the segregated University of Mississippi
Baseball Record
Sep 20 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
- Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 21 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel both ways (44 miles)
- Sep 21 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter
- Sep 22 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
- Sep 22 MLB Baltimore Orioles Jim Gentile ties record of 5 grand slams in a single season
Music History
Sep 22 Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" premieres at Warsaw Autumn Festival,Andrzej Markowski conducting Kraków Philharmonic
- Sep 23 1st movie to become a TV series, "How to Marry a Millionaire" premieres
- Sep 25 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 26 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
- Sep 26 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
Baseball Record
Sep 27 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
- Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
- Sep 28 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV
Hazel
Sep 28 "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
Dr. Kildare
Sep 28 American medical drama series "Dr. Kildare", starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, premieres on NBC-TV
- Sep 28 Ossie Davis' comedic stage farce "Purlie Victorious", starring the playwright, opens at the Cort Theatre, later transferring to the Longacre, NYC; runs for 261 performances
- Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
- Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
- Sep 28 Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
- Sep 29 "Detectives" TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
- Sep 29 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
Boston Tea Party
Sep 30 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
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