September 1st to 30th Just a few news items from each day click on the link for each day to find more news for that day
September 11914 St. Petersburg Changes Name To Petrograd
1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and Great Tokyo Fire Japan
1939 Germany Invades Poland
1954 Hurricane Carol Strikes Long Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island
2004 Chechen Rebels Take 1,000 Children Hostage
September 21935 Labor Day Hurricane strikes Florida Keys
1945 Japan formally surrenders to the Allies
September 31929 Dow Reaches Peak of 381.17 Before Stock Market Crash
1939 Britain and France Declare War On Germany
1984 Typhoon Ike Strikes Philippines
September 41959 Labor Reform Act Passed US
1972 Mark Spitz wins a record seventh gold medal
September 51972 Black September Attack Israel Athletes During Olympics
2007 Apple Launches Itouch
September 61901 President McKinley Assasinated
1941 Jews Ordered To Wear Yellow Star Of David Germany
September 71940 Battle Of Britain To Protect British Cities
1979 ESPN Debuts On Cable
2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into government control
Born in September
Rocky Marciano
Born: Rocco Francis Marchegiano 1st September 1923 Brockton, Massachusetts U.S.
Henry Ford II
Born: 4th September 1917 Detroit, Michigan U.S.
Hugh Grant
Born: Hugh John Mungo Grant, September 9, 1960, Hammersmith, London, England
Bill O'Reilly
Born: September 10th, 1949 New York City, NY, U.S.
Jesse Owens
Born: James Cleveland Owens, September 12th,
Roald Dahl
Born: September 13th, 1916, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
David Copperfield
Born: September 16th, 1956, Metuchen, New Jersey
Sophia Loren
Born: Sofia Villani Scicolone, September 20th, 1934, Rome, Italy
Stephen King
Born: September 21st, 1947, Portland, Maine, US
Jim Henson
Born: September 24th, 1936, Greenville, Mississippi
Jerry Lee Lewis
Born: 29th September 1935 Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.
1944 First V2 rocket Lands on London
September 91950 Truman Fireside Chat To Explain new Controls
1956 Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan's show
1965 Hurricane Betsy Makes Landfall
1971 Attica Prison Riot New York
September 101942 Gas Rationing US
1973 King's Cross and Euston station Bombings
September 111978 Georgi Markov Killed Using Poison Umbrella
2001 9/11 Attacks On World Trade Center and Pentagon
2004 Hurricane Ivan Causes Massive Destruction
September 121940 Lascaux Prehistoric Cave Paintings Discovered In France
1953 John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
1953 Nikita Khrushchev Takes Over In Soviet Union
1960 Hurricane Donna Strikes Long Island
1977 Steve Biko Killed In South Africa
1988 Hurricane Gilbert Strikes Jamaica
September 131959 First Man Made Object ( Luna 2 )Reaches The Moon
1960 OPEC Created
1966 Minimum Wage Raised To $1.40 in US
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco Dies
2001 Osama bin Laden Named As Prime Suspect
2006 E. Coli Breakout U.S.
September 141920 Wall Street Bombing
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane Strikes Florida
1932 Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike
1997 Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
September 151975 Inflation Hits 26% in the UK
We spent many hours researching cost of living information for each year and I created this page after being asked a number of times about why I did not include current prices alongside our cost of living information for each year and thought this was the easiest way to make the information available. Includes Average Cost of New Home, Average Wages, New Car cost, Gallon of Gas, and a 1 lb Hamburger Meat, 1920 to 2023.
1970 Jimi Hendrix Dies From Overdose
September 171960 Chubby Checker has a number 1 record with The Twist
1978 Carl Bridgewater Murder UK
1995 Unabombers 35,000 word manifesto New York Times
September 181946 First Cannes Film Festival
1973 Battle of the sexes in Tennis Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
September 191851 The New York Times Founded
1960 : Chubby Checker has a number 1 record with The Twist which launched a worldwide dance craze.
September 201962 James Meredith Barred From University of Mississippi
1946 First Cannes Film Festival
September 211937 J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," published
1989 Colin Powell appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
September 221938 New England hurricane
1961 Peace Corps Established
September 231952 Rocky Marciano Becomes world heavyweight champion
1957 Little Rock Nine School Children Issue Arkansas
2004 Hurricane Jeanne slams into Haiti
September 241908 First factory-built Ford Model T completed
1988 Ben Johnson wins the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics and then fails drug test
1962 "Beverly Hillbillies" HIT TV Show Starts
1969 "Chicago Seven" Trial Begins
1969 The Beatles release the "Abbey Road Album " in the UK
2002 The ferry Joola from Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia
2007 "Saffron Revolution" Burma / Union of Myanmar
2009 Roman Polanski Detained In Switzerland
September 271959 Typhoon Vera Strikes Honshu , Japan
1964 The Warren commission publishes official verdict for assassination of President John F. Kennedy
September 281928 Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
1975 Spaghetti House Siege In London
1994 Car and Passenger Ferry the Estonia sinks
September 291982 Tylenol Capsule Laced with Cyanide poison Chicago, Illinois
September 301949 Berlin Airlift Ends After agreement reached
1955 James Dean Dies In Car Crash
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history
2009 Earthquake Sumatra