September 30
is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the
Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining.
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1399 -
Henry IV is proclaimed
King of England.
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1813 -
Battle of Bárbula:
Simón Bolívar defeats
Santiago Bobadilla.
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1882 - The world's first commercial
hydroelectric power plant (later known as
Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the
Fox River in
Appleton,
Wisconsin,
United States.
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1888 -
Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims,
Elizabeth Stride and
Catherine Eddowes.
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1895 -
Madagascar becomes a
French protectorate.
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1906 -
Real Academia Galega,
Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in
Havana.
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1927 -
Babe Ruth, Becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
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1935 - The
Hoover Dam, astride the border between the
U.S. states of
Arizona and
Nevada, is dedicated.
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1938 - The
League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
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1939 - General
Władysław Sikorski becomes
commander-in-chief of the
Polish Government in exile.
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1947 - The
Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the
United Nations.
* 1947 -
Baseball: The
World Series, featuring
New York Yankees and the
Brooklyn Dodgers, is
televised for the first time.
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1949 - The
Berlin Airlift ends.
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1954 - The
U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first
nuclear reactor powered vessel.
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1962 -
Mexican-American labor leader
César Chávez founds the
United Farm Workers.
* 1962 -
James Meredith enters the
University of Mississippi, defying
segregation.
* 1962 - Last episodes of
Suspense and
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on
CBS Radio, marking the end of
The Golden Age of Radio.
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1965 - Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by
Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
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1966 - The
British protectorate of
Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the
Republic of Botswana.
Seretse Khama takes office as the first
President.
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1967 -
BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
* 1967 -
Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as
Radio Ceylon.
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1975 - The
Hughes (later
McDonnell-Douglas, now
Boeing)
AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
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1979 - The
Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its
Modified Initial System (aka. ).
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1980 -
Ethernet specifications published by
Xerox working with
Intel and
Digital Equipment Corporation.
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1982 -
Cyanide-laced
Tylenol kills six people in the
Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the
Tylenol murders.
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1989 - Foreign Minister of
West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in
Prague.
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1990 - The
Dalai Lama unveils the
Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in
Canada's capital city of
Ottawa.
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1991 - President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide of
Haiti is forced from office.
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1993 - An earthquake hits
India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (
Aurangabad division) in
Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
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1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in
Tokai-mura, northeast of
Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
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2004 -
AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the
Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.
* 2004 - The first images of a live
giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of
Tokyo.
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2005 - The
Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New
Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
* 2005 - The
controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the
Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten.
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1207 -
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d.
1273)
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1227 -
Pope Nicholas IV (d.
1292)
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1530 -
Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d.
1606)
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1631 -
William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d.
1701)
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1700 -
Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d.
1773)
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1710 -
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d.
1771)
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1715 -
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d.
1780)
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1732 -
Jacques Necker, French finance minister of
Louis XVI (d.
1804)
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1800 -
Decimus Burton, British architect (d.
1881)
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1870 -
Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1942)
* 1870 -
Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or
Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of
Ned Lamont (d.
1948)
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1882 -
Hans Geiger, German physicist (d.
1945)
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1895 -
Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d.
1980)
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1898 -
Renée Adorée, French actress (d.
1933)
* 1898 -
Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d.
1977)
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1904 -
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d.
1971)
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1905 -
Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996)
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1908 -
David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d.
1974)
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1912 -
Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d.
1985)
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1913 -
Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d.
1975)
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1915 -
Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d.
2003)
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1917 -
Park Chunghee,
President of South Korea (d.
1979)
* 1917 -
Buddy Rich, American drummer (d.
1987)
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1921 -
Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress
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1922 -
Alan Stretton, Australian general
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1924 -
Truman Capote, American author (d.
1984)
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1928 -
Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize*
1931 -
Angie Dickinson, American actress
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1932 -
Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (governor of Tokyo)
* 1932 -
Johnny Podres, baseball player
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1934 -
Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
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1935 -
Johnny Mathis, American singer
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1937 -
Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
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1939 -
Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1942 -
Frankie Lymon, American singer (d.
1962)
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1943 -
Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1945 -
Nader Angha, 42nd Present
Sufi Master of the
Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
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1945 -
Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
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1946 -
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d.
1993)
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1947 -
Marc Bolan, British musician (d.
1977)
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1950 -
Renato Zero, Italian musician
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1951 -
Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
1952 -
Jack Wild, British actor
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1953 -
S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
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1954 -
Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
* 1954 -
Barry Williams, American actor
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1957 -
Fran Drescher, American actress
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1961 -
Eric Stoltz, American actor
* 1961 -
Crystal Bernard, American actress
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1962 -
Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
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1964 -
Trey Anastasio, American musician (
Phish)
* 1964 -
Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
* 1964 -
Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (
Goo Goo Dolls)
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1969 -
Chris Von Erich, Professional wrestler
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1970 -
Mark Smith, former
Gladiator*
1971 -
Jenna Elfman, American actress
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1972 -
Ari Behn, Norwegian author
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1977 -
Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
* 1977 -
Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
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1978 -
Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
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1979 -
Andy Van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
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1980 -
Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
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1981 -
Brandon Watson, Baseball player
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1982 -
Lacey Chabert, American actress
* 1982 -
Kieran Culkin, American actor
* 1982 -
Michelle Marsh, British model
* 1982 -
Ryan Stout, American comedian
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1984 -
Keisha Buchanan, British singer (
Sugababes)
* 1984 -
Megan Ewing, American supermodel
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1990 -
Tobi Atkins, Australian actor
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420 - Saint
Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
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653 -
Saint Honorius,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
1246 -
Yaroslav II of Russia (b.
1191)
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1440 -
Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
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1487 -
John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b.
1400)
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1551 -
Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b.
1507)
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1560 -
Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b.
1525)
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1572 - St.
Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b.
1510)
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1581 -
Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b.
1518)
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1626 -
Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b.
1559)
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1628 -
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b.
1554)
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1770 -
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
* 1770 -
George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b.
1714)
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1772 -
James Brindley, English engineer (b.
1716)
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1865 -
Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b.
1800)
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1891 -
Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b.
1837)
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1913 -
Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b.
1858)
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1943 -
Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b.
1864)
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1955 -
James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b.
1931)
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1977 -
Mary Ford, American singer (b.
1925)
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1985 -
Simone Signoret, French actress (b.
1921)
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1990 -
Patrick White, Australian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1912)
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1994 -
Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1902)
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1998 -
Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b.
1953)
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2002 -
Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1913)
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2003 -
Yusuf Bey,
Black Muslim leader (b.
1935)
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2004 -
Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b.
1936)
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RC Saints - Saint
Jerome*
Botswana -
Independence Day (
1966)
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São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
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International Translation Day*
French Republican Calendar -
Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
BBC: On This DaySeptember 29 -
October 1 -
August 30 -
October 30 – more
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