September 1
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
98 British tourists die in an air crash in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
While waiting at a bus stop Ralph Baer, an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.
September 6 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting.
September 7 – The ocean liner SS Hanseatic catches fire and burns in New York Harbor.
September 8 – Star Trek, the science fiction television series, debuts on NBC-TV in the United States with its first episode, titled "The Man Trap".
September 9 – NATO decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium.
September 12
Gemini 11 (Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Pete Conrad) docks with an Agena target vehicle.
B. J. Vorster becomes the new Prime Minister of South Africa.
September 13 – Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported by TASS in the Soviet Union.
September 16
In South Vietnam, Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.
The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
September 18 – Valerie Percy, 21-year-old daughter of U.S. Senate candidate Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
September 19
Scotland Yard arrests Buster Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery.
Timothy Leary forms the spiritual group League for Spiritual Discovery.
Indonesian military commander (later President) Suharto annoucs the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations.
September 29 – Hurricane Inez strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
September 30
The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as Botswana, with Seretse Khama as its first President.
Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison.
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