September 3: The last new episode of The Lone Ranger radio program is broadcast, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. Reruns of old episodes continued to be transmitted.

September 6: The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, the Philippines.

September 8: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.

September 9: An earthquake centered on the city of Orleansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.

September 11: The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

September 14: The Soviet Union test fires a thermonuclear bomb for the first time. - English composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.

September 15: Black Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights due to bad weather along the East Coast of the United States.

September 17: William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies is published in London.

September 25: Footscray Football Club win their first Australian Football League Grand Final.

September 26: The Japanese ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed. Seven other ships are wrecked and at least nine others seriously damaged.

September 30: The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy. (source: Wikipedia)