Sports History
Sep 1 SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets
Robert F. Kennedy Resigns
Sep 3 US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy resigns
Wilderness Act
Sep 3 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Sep 4 Eduardo Frei Montalva elected President of Chile
- Sep 4 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
- Sep 4 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)
- Sep 9 German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
- Sep 9 John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence" premieres in London
- Sep 10 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Sep 10 Rod Stewart records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
Music History
Sep 11 Beatles guitarist George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
- Sep 11 Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium
- Sep 12 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
World Record
Sep 12 American long jumper Ralph Boston sets then world record 27' 4 1⁄4" (8.34m) at Los Angeles, California
- Sep 12 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
A Fistful of Dollars
Sep 12 Film that started Spaghetti Western genre "A Fistful of Dollars" premieres, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role
- Sep 13 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
- Sep 13 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 13 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 for his 3rd Grand Slam title of the year
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 13 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her 3rd US singles title; dominates American Carole Graebner 6-1, 6-0
- Sep 13 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Sep 14 President Lyndon Johnson presents Walter Lippmann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Film & TV History
Sep 14 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
- Sep 14 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 15 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
- Sep 15 The Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio; police stop show during third song as some of the crowd climbed on the stage, after a 10 minute delay, and warning audience to stay seated, the concert resumed with the.
- Sep 16 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
Bewitched
Sep 17 American sitcom "Bewitched", starring Elizabeth Montgomery, premieres on ABC TV
Baby Love
Sep 17 Motown Records releases The Supremes' single "Baby Love"; written and produced by the Holland-Dozier-Holland team, it becomes their second consecutive #1 record
- Sep 17 National Museum of Anthropology, the largest museum in Latin America, inaugurated by President Adolfo López Mateos in Mexico City [1]
- Sep 17 The Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 by baseball team owner Charles Finley for a concert at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on a scheduled day off; the group adds the song "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" to their standard setlist, much to the delight of the crowd
Sports History
Sep 17 Yankee Mickey Mantle gets career hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR in 6-2 victory over Los Angeles Angels at New York
The Addams Family
Sep 18 TV sitcom series "The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy premieres on ABC; runs for two seasons
- Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 20 20th America's Cup yachting: Eric Ridder skippered Constellation beats English challenger Sovereign for a 4-0 American series sweep off Newport, RI
The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising
Sep 20 Günter Grass' play "Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand (The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising)" premieres in Berlin
- Sep 20 The Beatles close out their first North American tour returning to New York City, for a benefit concert titled "An Evening With The Beatles" at the Paramount Theatre; the show was for the United Cerebral Palsy of NYC charity, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé were also on the bill
- Sep 21 Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- Sep 21 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
- Sep 22 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum on NBC-TV: open channel D
- Sep 22 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel, opens at the Imperial Theater (later transferring to the Majestic, and then the Broadway), NYC; runs for 3,242 performances and winning 9 Tony Awards
- Sep 24 "The Munsters" premieres on TV
- Sep 24 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested
Music History
Sep 24 Ringo Starr forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
Gilligan's Island
Sep 26 TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS
- Sep 27 Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
Warren Commission
Sep 27 Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
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