September 2: Under the guidance of Dr Humphry Osmond, Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special for BBC TV that was never broadcast.

September 6: Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.

September 10: The long-running program Gunsmoke debuts on the CBS-TV network.

September 14: Pope Pius XII elevates many of the Apostolic Vicariates in Africa to Metropolitan Archdioceses

September 15: Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

September 19-September 21: The President of Argentina, Juan Peron, is ousted in a military coup.

September 19: Hurricane Hilda kills about 200 people in Mexico.

September 22: Independent Commercial Television (ITV) begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

September 23: Alec Guinness meets the actor James Dean. Guinness supposedly has a premonition of Dean's death.

September 24: Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States suffers a coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver, Colorado.

September 30: Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California. Dean is just 24 years old. (source: Wikipedia)