September 30

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September.

Events

• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
• 1867 - United States takes control of Midway Island.
• 1882 - The world's first hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
• 1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
• 1938 - League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations"
• 1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1939 - General Wladyslaw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1947 - World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
• 1949 - Berlin Airlift ends.
• 1954 - The submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
• 1961 - Mayor Snyder of Oregon writes a check for $1.96 to cover the cost of the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party.
• 1962 - César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
• 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
• 1965 - Civil unrest followed a failed c'oup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
• 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• 1967 - Launch of BBC Radio 1; other national BBC radio stations also adopt numeric names.
• 1975 - Hughes(later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache made its first flight.
• 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
• 1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
• 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague
• 1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
• 1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
• 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.

Births

• 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
• 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
• 1629 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d. 1681)
• 1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
• 1732 - Jacques Necker, French diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
• 1800 - Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881)
• 1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
• 1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
• 1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
• 1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
• 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
• 1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
• 1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
• 1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
• 1915 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
• 1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
• 1917 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (d. 1987)
• 1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress
• 1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
• 1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer
• 1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
• 1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
• 1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
• 1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1962)
• 1943 - Lech Walesa, President of Poland
• 1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
• 1947 - Marc Bolan, English musician (d. 1977)
• 1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
• 1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
• 1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
• 1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
• 1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
• 1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
• 1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
• 1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
• 1990 - Tobi Atkins, Australian actor

Deaths

• 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
• 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
• 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
• 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
• 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
• 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
• 1955 - James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1976 - Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1928)
• 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)
• 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

• Independence Day in Botswana (1966)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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