September 1 Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London
September 2 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
September 3 Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45
September 4 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
September 4 Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
September 5 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
September 5 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception
September 5 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113
September 6 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
September 6 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
September 6 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
September 7 5th MTV Awards
September 7 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito and Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
September 7 New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
September 7 Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
September 8 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
September 8 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ")
September 8 NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish
September 9 Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games
September 9 Chris Evert defaults at U.S. Open due to a stomach flu
September 9 U.S. swamps New Zealand at 27th America's Cup: New Zealand set to appeal
September 10 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)
September 10 Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
September 10 Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan
September 11 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
September 11 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64)
September 11 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4 hours 55 minutes - longest men's final in U.S. Open history
September 11 Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
September 11 Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world
September 12 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
September 12 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
September 13 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
September 13 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
September 13 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
September 14 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
September 15 "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
September 15 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
September 15 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
September 15 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
September 16 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
September 16 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
September 16 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, vs. Australia
September 16 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
September 16 Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA
September 17 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
September 17 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL and NL
September 17 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
September 18 Burma suspends its constitution
September 18 Coup in Haiti
September 18 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
September 19 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
September 19 U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
September 20 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
September 20 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
September 20 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
September 21 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home
September 22 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
September 22 South Korean coaches attack New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
September 23 Fiji's new constitution is proposed
September 23 Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs
September 23 Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
September 24 Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
September 24 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
September 24 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
September 24 Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up