1st » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet Union Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including United States Congress Congressman Larry McDonald Lawrence McDonald.
6th » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
12th » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
12th » The Soviet Union or USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
17th » Vanessa L. Williams e.g Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
19th » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
23rd » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
23rd » Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
23rd » Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
25th » Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of Maze (HM Prison) called the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
26th » USSR e.g Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident known as correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike
27th » Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.