- 09/01/1978 - Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs
Balt)
- 09/01/1978 - Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
- 09/01/1978 - Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead
center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
- 09/01/1978 - #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid
& #8064
- 09/02/1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
- 09/02/1978 - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami
Sound Machine)
- 09/02/1978 - Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind
man
- 09/02/1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane
over Houston
- 09/02/1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight
years
- 09/03/1978 - Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
- 09/03/1978 - Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ
(2:11:57.5)
- 09/03/1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme
pontiff
- 09/04/1978 - Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
$29,074,405
- 09/04/1978 - NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3
season)
- 09/04/1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 09/05/1978 - Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp
David, Md
- 09/06/1978 - Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
- 09/06/1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 09/07/1978 - 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
- 09/08/1978 - 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
- 09/08/1978 - Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s
killed
- 09/09/1978 - 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
- 09/09/1978 - 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver
(75 64)
- 09/09/1978 - Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
- 09/09/1978 - Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
- 09/09/1978 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
- 09/10/1978 - "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC
after 243 perfs
- 09/10/1978 - 98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bj”rn B”rg
(64 62 62)
- 09/10/1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113
yds & 30")
- 09/10/1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different
surfaces
- 09/10/1978 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf
Open
- 09/10/1978 - 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This
ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
- 09/12/1978 - Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
- 09/12/1978 - Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC
television
- 09/13/1978 - 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
- 09/13/1978 - NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14
games back
- 09/14/1978 - Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since
1970
- 09/14/1978 - Portugal govt of Da Costa falls
- 09/15/1978 - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million
fans
- 09/15/1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight
boxing title
- 09/15/1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2«
games
- 09/16/1978 - 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
- 09/16/1978 - Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins
- 09/16/1978 - Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
- 09/16/1978 - Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
- 09/17/1978 - 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada
Thompson win
- 09/17/1978 - Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord
- 09/17/1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf
Tournament
- 09/17/1978 - Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3
- 09/20/1978 - "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439
performances
- 09/20/1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
- 09/20/1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach
Germany
- 09/22/1978 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David
summit
- 09/23/1978 - 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp
David summit
- 09/24/1978 - Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team
Golf Classic
- 09/24/1978 - Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
- 09/24/1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3
ERA 1.74
- 09/24/1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 09/25/1978 - PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San
Diego, 144 die
- 09/26/1978 - RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail
service
- 09/26/1978 - NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that
women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
- 09/27/1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 09/27/1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 09/28/1978 - Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
- 09/28/1978 - Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
- 09/28/1978 - Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
- 09/29/1978 - "Flying High," debuts on CBS
- 09/29/1978 - "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last
airs on NBC-TV
- 09/30/1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to
Cincinnati,
- 09/30/1978 - Phillies clinch NL East title
- 09/30/1978 - Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh
Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
| Famous birthdays for September 1978 .. |
- 09/06/1978 - Natalia Cigliuti, NY, actress (Lindsay-Saved By Bell: New
Class)
- 09/07/1978 - G[eneral] A[ustin], Columbus Ga, rapper (Another Bad
Creation)
- 09/08/1978 - Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward (Sharks, Team
Germany 1998)
- 09/09/1978 - Jhane Landwier, Miss Bonaire Universe (1997)
- 09/15/1978 - Amanda Rochelle Penix, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1997)
- 09/18/1978 - Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)
- 09/20/1978 - Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 09/25/1978 - Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer
(Olympics-96)
- 09/28/1978 - Marzena Godecki, actress (Ocean Girl)
- 09/28/1978 - Nestaea Sealy, Miss Bahamas Universe (1997)
- 09/29/1978 - Mandy Groff, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1996)
- 09/29/1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, Phila, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
| Famous deaths for September 1978 .. |
- 09/01/1978 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33
- 09/06/1978 - Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59
- 09/07/1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31
- 09/08/1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
- 09/09/1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at
86)
- 09/12/1978 - Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal),
dies at 69
- 09/15/1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
- 09/19/1978 - Rolf Gnther, East German priest, self imolation
- 09/22/1978 - Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
- 09/23/1978 - Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo),
dies at 79
- 09/23/1978 - Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at
27
- 09/24/1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at
80
- 09/25/1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road),
dies at 80
- 09/28/1978 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], Pope (1978), dies after 33
days as pope
- 09/28/1978 - Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope,
died
- 09/29/1978 - John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
- 09/30/1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
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- 09/01/1979 - Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
- 09/01/1979 - LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger
mask
- 09/01/1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon,
rings
- 09/02/1979 - "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC
after 108 perfs
- 09/02/1979 - 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
- 09/03/1979 - Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
- 09/03/1979 - Iran army conquerors Mahabad
- 09/03/1979 - Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
$30,000,000
- 09/03/1979 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 09/04/1979 - India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
- 09/04/1979 - Iran army conquerors Baneh
- 09/05/1979 - A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14
straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19)
- 09/05/1979 - Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
- 09/05/1979 - Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma
- 09/05/1979 - Iran army occupies Piranshahr
- 09/05/1979 - Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his
bullet serve & upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals
- 09/06/1979 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
for 578 performances
- 09/07/1979 - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY
- 09/08/1979 - Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
- 09/08/1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 09/09/1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth
Gordon
- 09/09/1979 - 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills
(64 63)
- 09/09/1979 - 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis
(75 63 63)
- 09/09/1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
- 09/09/1979 - Sid Bernstein offers $« billion for a Beatle reunion
- 09/09/1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington
Mosque
- 09/10/1979 - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman
are freed
- 09/12/1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
- 09/12/1979 - Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23
million damage
- 09/12/1979 - Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
- 09/12/1979 - Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim
Beattie
- 09/13/1979 - China PR performs nuclear test
- 09/13/1979 - South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out
of S Afr)
- 09/14/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
- 09/14/1979 - Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA
to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
- 09/15/1979 - Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL
(Astros)
- 09/15/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
- 09/16/1979 - 23rd Ryder Cup: US, 17-11 at Greenbrier
- 09/16/1979 - Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
- 09/16/1979 - Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
- 09/16/1979 - KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since
1925)
- 09/16/1979 - Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf
Championship
- 09/16/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test
- 09/17/1979 - Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
- 09/17/1979 - Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs
in a season
- 09/18/1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov
defect
- 09/18/1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
- 09/18/1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at MSG
- 09/19/1979 - No Nukes Concert at MSG includes Springsteen & Crosby,
Stills & Nash
- 09/20/1979 - Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows
emperor Bokassa I
- 09/20/1979 - Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
- 09/20/1979 - NASA launches HEAO
- 09/22/1979 - Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
- 09/22/1979 - Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in
DH
- 09/23/1979 - Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery
Park, NYC
- 09/23/1979 - Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
- 09/23/1979 - Somali constitution approved by president
- 09/23/1979 - St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of
his career
- 09/24/1979 - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information
service
- 09/24/1979 - Ghana adopts constitution
- 09/24/1979 - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
- 09/24/1979 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for
asylum in Switz
- 09/24/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 09/25/1979 - "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568
performances
- 09/25/1979 - Calif Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
- 09/26/1979 - 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225
million
- 09/26/1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 09/27/1979 - Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
- 09/27/1979 - Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal
Ampitheater
- 09/27/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
- 09/28/1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shaver in 11 for heavyweight
boxing title
- 09/29/1979 - "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
- 09/29/1979 - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks
at #14
- 09/29/1979 - "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks
at #56
- 09/29/1979 - "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at
#16
- 09/29/1979 - "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
- 09/29/1979 - "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at
#18
- 09/29/1979 - "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at
#15
- 09/29/1979 - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
- 09/29/1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at
#6
- 09/29/1979 - "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in
UK
- 09/29/1979 - "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie
Mills peaks at #22
- 09/29/1979 - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of
313
- 09/29/1979 - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
- 09/29/1979 - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film
Festival
- 09/29/1979 - LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
- 09/29/1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
- 09/30/1979 - Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games
without a shutout
- 09/30/1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
| Famous birthdays for September 1979 .. |
- 09/04/1979 - Suzan Dandeneau, Miss Idaho Teen USA (1996)
- 09/11/1979 - Ariana Richards, Healdsburg CA, actress (Spaced Invaders,
Prancer)
- 09/23/1979 - Red, LA Calif, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
- 09/26/1979 - Jaycie Phelps, Indianapolis Ind, gymnast
(World-brz-95/Oly-gold-96)
- 09/28/1979 - Anndi Lynn McAfee, actress (Ice Cream Man, Conagher)
| Famous deaths for September 1979 .. |
- 09/01/1979 - Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton),
dies at 81
- 09/02/1979 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies
at 90
- 09/04/1979 - Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76
- 09/06/1979 - Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69
- 09/08/1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits
suicide at 40
- 09/09/1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
- 09/10/1979 - Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56
- 09/10/1979 - Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer, dies at 99
- 09/12/1979 - Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935),
dies
- 09/14/1979 - Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80
- 09/15/1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
- 09/16/1979 - Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79),
killed
- 09/17/1979 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71
- 09/18/1979 - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
- 09/20/1979 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
- 09/21/1979 - John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies
at 73
- 09/23/1979 - Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at
75
- 09/26/1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies
at 68
- 09/26/1979 - John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human Bondage), dies at
91
- 09/26/1979 - Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53
- 09/27/1979 - Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81
- 09/27/1979 - Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug
overdose
- 09/28/1979 - Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26
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