The first automatic teller machine (ATM) was installed on September 2 at a branch of Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, died of a heart attack on September 3.
LT William Calley, U.S. Army, was charged on September 5 with six counts of premeditated murder in connection with the 1968 My Lai massacre of 109 Vietnamese civilians.
One hundred seventy-one women entered Princeton University on September 7 as undergraduates, the first in the institution’s history.
The New York Mets, who had never finished higher then ninth in baseball’s National League, took the league lead on September 10. Behind the Chicago Cubs by 9 1/2 games four weeks earlier, the Mets now took a one game lead, with 22 games to go.
Steve Carleton of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record on September 15 by striking out 19 New York Mets in a nine-inning game. As an indication of this “marvelous” season for the Mets, they won anyway, 4-3.
The medical show Marcus Welby, M.D., starring Robert Young, premiered on ABC on September 23. Three days later, the first episode of The Brady Bunch showed, also on ABC.
Abbey Road, the last album recorded by The Beatles together, was released on September 26. Let It Be, largely finished at the time, was not released until April 1970.