- Sep 1 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
- Sep 1 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
- Sep 1 Gunsmoke goes off the air
Telethon
Sep 1 Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- Sep 1 KOL-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KMPS
Baseball Record
Sep 1 NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season
- Sep 1 NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
- Sep 1 US stripper well oil prices decontrolled
- Sep 3 Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
Baseball Record
Sep 3 Dodgers 1st baseman Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak in a 13-2 loss v Cincinnati Reds
- Sep 3 England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes
- Sep 4 Egypt and Israel sign the Sinai Interim Agreement (aka Sinai II Agreement), with the intention of peacefully resolving territorial disputes, in Geneva, Switzerland
Assassination Attempt
Sep 5 First assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Sacramento, California
- Sep 5 Portugal Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves dismissed
- Sep 5 Wings release single "Letting Go"
- Sep 6 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
Sports History
Sep 6 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
- Sep 6 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 6 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert wins her first of 6 US singles titles; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
- Sep 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 7 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
Cricket History
Sep 7 Pakistani all-time great batsman Hanif Mohammad plays final day of 1st-class cricket for Pakistan International Airlines v Hyderabad at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 7 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Manuel Orantes of Spain wins his only Grand Slam title; upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; played on green Har-Tru clay surface
- Sep 8 Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
Music Concert
Sep 9 Paul McCartney & Wings begin their "Wings Over The World" tour in Southampton, England; 65 concerts in Europe, Australia, Canada, and United States, runs through October of 1976
- Sep 9 Viking 2 Mars probe launches
Sports History
Sep 10 Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Sep 10 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
Wish You Were Here
Sep 12 Pink Floyd releases their ninth album "Wish You Were Here"
Canonization
Sep 14 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI
- Sep 14 Rembrandt's oil painting "The Night Watch" slashed & damaged by an unemployed school teacher, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Sep 15 1st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 17-3 in Foxborough
- Sep 15 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
- Sep 15 The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- Sep 16 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game in a 22-0 rout of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field in Chicago
- Sep 16 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
- Sep 16 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- Sep 17 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
Event of Interest
Sep 18 American publishing heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco, California
Fawlty Towers
Sep 19 "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK
- Sep 19 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
#1 in the Charts
Sep 20 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
- Sep 20 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw
Ryder Cup
Sep 20 Ryder Cup Golf, Laurel Valley GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 21-11; Arnold Palmer non-playing American captain; Bernard Hunt GB & I skipper
- Sep 22 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
- Sep 22 World Football League folds
- Sep 24 OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues
#1 in the Charts
Sep 25 Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies
- Sep 26 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
- Sep 27 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
- Sep 28 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
- Sep 28 New York City Marathon: Tom Fleming claims men's title in 2:19:27; Kim Merritt wins women's event in 2:46:14
- Sep 28 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
- Sep 29 American television game show "Three for the Money" hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV; cancelled after 8 weeks
- Sep 29 Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan
Music History
Sep 29 Soul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack while singing on stage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; he survives, but never fully recovers, spending most of final 8 years in a coma
- Sep 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 29 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
- Sep 30 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel at Niagara Falls, New York
- Sep 30 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
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