- September 30
Events
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1399 - Henry IV is proclaimedKing of England .
*1744 -France andSpain defeat theKingdom of Sardinia at theBattle of Madonna dell'Olmo .
*1791 - "The Magic Flute ", the last opera composed byMozart receives its premiere performance atFreihaus-Theater auf der Wieden inVienna ,Austria .
*1791 - TheNational Constituent Assembly inParis is dissolved; Parisians hailMaximilien Robespierre andJérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
*1813 - Battle of Bárbula:Simón Bolívar defeatsSantiago Bobadilla .
*1846 - [http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0930 First tooth extracted under anesthesia] inCharlestown, Massachusetts ,1846
*1860 - Britain's firsttram service begins inBirkenhead ,Merseyside .
*1882 - The world's first commercialhydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton,Wisconsin ,United States .
*1888 -Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims,Elizabeth Stride andCatherine Eddowes .
*1895 -Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
*1901 -Hubert Cecil Booth patents thevacuum cleaner .
*1903 - The newGresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
*1906 -Real Academia Galega , Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working inHavana .
*1927 -Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
*1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement forAfrikaner s inBloemfontein ,South Africa .
*1935 - TheHoover Dam , astride the border between theU.S. state s ofArizona andNevada , is dedicated.
*1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain,France ,Germany andItaly sign theMunich Agreement , allowingGermany to occupy theSudetenland region ofCzechoslovakia .
*1938 - TheLeague of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
*1939 - GeneralWładysław Sikorski becomescommander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
*1945 -Bourne End rail crash ,Hertfordshire ,England killed 43
*1947 - TheIslamic Republic of Pakistan joins theUnited Nations .
* 1947 - TheWorld Series , featuring theNew York Yankees and theBrooklyn Dodgers , is televised for the first time.
*1949 - TheBerlin Airlift ends.
*1954 - TheU.S. Navy submarine USS "Nautilus" is commissioned as the world's firstnuclear reactor powered vessel.
*1955 - Film iconJames Dean dies in a road accident at age 24.
*1962 -Mexican-American labor leaderCésar Chávez founds theUnited Farm Workers .
* 1962 -James Meredith enters theUniversity of Mississippi , defying segregation.
*1965 - GeneralSuharto rises to power after an alleged coup by theCommunist Party of Indonesia . In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
*1966 - The Britishprotectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
*1967 -BBC Radio 1 is launched andTony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
*1970 -Jordan makes a deal with thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from theDawson's Field hijackings .
*1975 - The Hughes (laterMcDonnell-Douglas , nowBoeing )AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
*1977 - Due to US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, theApollo program'sALSEP experiment packages left on theMoon are shut down.
* 1977 -Philippine political prisoner s,Eugenio Lopez, Jr. andSergio Osmeña III successfully escapes fromFort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in thePhilippines .
*1979 - TheHong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka.Kwun Tong Line ).
*1980 -Ethernet specifications are published byXerox working withIntel andDigital Equipment Corporation .
*1982 -Cyanide -lacedTylenol kills six people in theChicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
*1986 -Mordechai Vanunu , who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
*1989 - Foreign Minister ofWest Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's speech from the balcony of the German embassy inPrague .
*1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils theCanadian Tribute to Human Rights inCanada 's capital city ofOttawa .
*1991 - PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide ofHaiti is forced from office.
*1993 - An earthquake hitsIndia 's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) inMaharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
*1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast ofTokyo .
*2004 - The first images of a livegiant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south ofTokyo .
* 2004 - TheAIM-54 Phoenix , the primary missile for theF-14 Tomcat , is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
*2005 - TheParliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of NewCatalan Statute of Autonomy , proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
* 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaperJyllands-Posten .
*2006 - theNational Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.Births
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1207 -Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi , Persian mystic and poet (d.1273 )
*1227 -Pope Nicholas IV (d.1292 )
*1530 -Geronimo Mercuriali , Italian philologist and physician (d.1606 )
*1550 -Michael Maestlin , German mathematician (d.1631 )
*1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d.1701 )
*1700 -Stanisław Konarski , Polish writer (d.1773 )
*1710 -John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford , British statesman (d.1771 )
*1715 -Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , French philosopher (d.1780 )
*1732 -Jacques Necker , French finance minister of Louis XVI (d.1804 )
*1765 -José María Morelos , Mexican revolutionary (d.1815 )
*1800 -Decimus Burton , British architect (d.1881 )
*1811 -Augusta of Saxe-Weimar , Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d.1890 )
*1827 -Ellis H. Roberts , American politician (d.1918 )
*1861 -William Wrigley Jr. , American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company ) (d.1932 )
*1870 -Jean Baptiste Perrin , French physicist, Nobel laureate (d.1942 )
* 1870 -Thomas W. Lamont , American banker; father ofCorliss Lamont ; great-grandfather ofNed Lamont (d.1948 )
*1882 -Hans Geiger , German physicist (d.1945 )
*1883 -Bernhard Rust , Nazi education minister (d.1945 )
*1887 -Lil Dagover , Dutch-born German actress (d.1980 )
*1893 -Lansdale Sasscer , American politician (d.1964 )
*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 , American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d.2003 )
*1917 -Park Chunghee ,President of South Korea (d.1979 )
* 1917 -Buddy Rich , Americanbig band drummer (d.1987 )
*1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d.1996 )
*1919 -Roberto Bonomi , Argentine racing driver (d.1992 )
* 1919 -Patricia Neway , American soprano
*1920 -Aldo Parisot , Brazilian-American musician and cellist
*1921 -Deborah Kerr , Scottish actress (d.2007 )
*1922 -Alan Stretton , Australian general
*1924 -Truman Capote , American author (d.1984 )
*1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
*1927 -W. S. Merwin , American poet
*1928 -Elie Wiesel , Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize
*1931 -Angie Dickinson , American actress
*1932 -Shintaro Ishihara , Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
* 1932 -Johnny Podres , American baseball player (d.2008 )
*1933 -Cissy Houston , American gospel/r&b singer
* 1933 -Barbara Knox , English actress
*1934 -Udo Jürgens , Austrian singer
* 1934 -Anna Kashfi , Welsh actress
*1935 -Johnny Mathis , American singer
* 1935 -Z. Z. Hill , American blues singer (d.1984 )
*1937 -Valentin Silvestrov , Ukrainian composer
*1939 -Jean-Marie Lehn , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
*1942 -Frankie Lymon , American singer (d.1968 )
*1943 -Johann Deisenhofer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1943 -Marilyn McCoo , American singer (The Fifth Dimension )
* 1943 -Ian Ogilvy , British Actor
*1944 -Diane Dufresne , French Canadian singer
*1945 -Ehud Olmert , twelfthPrime Minister ofIsrael
* 1945 -Bob Lassiter , American radio personality
* 1946 -Paul Sheahan , Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
*1946 -Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican singer (d.1993 )
* 1946 -Claude Vorilhon , founder ofRaelism , a ufo religion
*1947 -Marc Bolan , British musician (d.1977 )
* 1947 -Dave Arneson , American game designer
* 1947 -Rula Lenska ,English Actress
*1948 -Craig Kusick , former Major League Baseball Player
*1950 -Renato Zero , Italian musician
*1951 -Barry Marshall , Australian physician, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*1952 -Jack Wild , British actor (d.2006 )
*1953 -Deborah Allen , American singer
* 1953 -S.M. Stirling , Canadian-born author
*1954 -Basia Trzetrzelewska , Polish-born singer and songwriter
* 1954 -Barry Williams , American actor
* 1954 -Patrice Rushen , American musician
*1957 -Fran Drescher , American actress
*1958 -Marty Stuart , American musician
*1959 -Ettore Messina , Italian basketball coach
*1960 -Blanche Lincoln , American politician
*1961 -Eric Stoltz , American actor
* 1961 -Crystal Bernard , American actress
* 1961 -Eric van de Poele , Belgian racing driver
* 1961 -Sally Yeh , Hong Kong singer and actress
*1962 -Frank Rijkaard , Dutch football player and manager
*1962 - Shaan, Indian singer
*1964 -Monica Bellucci , Italian actress
* 1964 -Trey Anastasio , American musician (Phish )
* 1964 -Robby Takac , American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls )
*1965 -Kathleen Madigan , American comedian
*1966 -Kerry G. Johnson , African American graphic designer and caricaturist
*1969 -Chris Von Erich , American professional wrestler (d.1991 )
*1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former "Gladiators" player
*1971 -Jenna Elfman , American actress
*1972 -Ari Behn , Norwegian author
* 1972 -Jamal Anderson , American football player
*1974 -Jeremy Giambi , American baseball player
*1975 -Marion Cotillard , French actress
* 1975 -Carlos Guillén , Venezuelan baseball player
*1977 -Maia Brewton , American actress
* 1977 -Roy Carroll , Northern Irish footballer
* 1977 -Sun Jihai , Chinese footballer
*1978 -Candice Michelle , American female wrestler
* 1978 -Róbinson Zapata , Columbian footballer (goalkeeper)
*1979 -Andy van der Meyde , Dutch footballer
* 1979 -Clio-Danae Othoneou , Greek actress, musician and pianist
* 1979 -Vince Chong , Malaysian singer-songwriter
*1980 -Camilla D’Errico , Canadian comic book artist and painter
* 1980 -Martina Hingis , Swiss tennis player
*1981 -Dominique Moceanu , American gymnast
* 1981 -Brandon Watson , American baseball
*1982 -Lacey Chabert , American actress
* 1982 -Kieran Culkin , American actor
* 1982 -Tory Lane , American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
* 1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
* 1982 -Teal Redmann , American actress
* 1982 -Ryan Stout , American comedian
*1983 -Andreea Răducan , Romanian gymnast
* 1983 - Adam Jones, American football player
*1984 -T-Pain , American rapper/singer
*1987 -Denise Laurel , Filipino actress and singerDeaths
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420 - SaintJerome , translator of the Vulgate Bible
*653 -Saint Honorius ,Archbishop of Canterbury
*1101 -Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
*1246 -Yaroslav II of Russia (b.1191 )
*1440 -Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn , English soldier and politician
*1487 -John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b.1400 )
*1551 -Ōuchi Yoshitaka , Japanese warlord (b.1507 )
*1560 -Melchior Cano , Spanish theologian (b.1525 )
*1572 - St.Francis Borgia , Jesuit priest (b.1510 )
*1581 -Hubert Languet , French diplomat and reformer (b.1518 )
*1626 -Nurhaci , Manchurian chief (b.1559 )
*1628 -Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke , English poet (b.1554 )
*1770 -Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham , English politician and diplomat
* 1770 -George Whitefield , English-born Methodist leader (b.1714 )
*1772 -James Brindley , English engineer (b.1716 )
*1865 -Samuel David Luzzatto , Italian-Jewish scholar (b.1800 )
*1888 -Elizabeth Stride , widely believed to be the third victim ofJack the Ripper (b.1843 )
* 1888 -Catherine Eddowes , widely believed to be the fourth victim ofJack the Ripper (b.1842 )
*1891 -Georges Boulanger , French general and politician (b.1837 )
*1897 -St Therese of Lisieux ,Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b.1873 )
*1910 -Maurice Lévy , French engineer (b.1838 )
*1913 -Rudolf Diesel , German inventor (b.1858 )
*1942 -Hans-Joachim Marseille , German fighter pilot (b.1919 )
*1943 -Franz Oppenheimer , German sociologist (b.1864 )
*1955 -James Dean , American actor (automobile accident) (b.1931 )
*1961 -Onésime Gagnon , French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b.1888 )
*1973 -Peter Pitseolak , Inuit photographer and author (b.1902 )
*1974 -Carlos Prats , Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame ofOperation Condor
*1977 -Mary Ford , American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b.1924 )
*1978 -Edgar Bergen , American actor and ventriloquist (b.1903 )
*1985 -Simone Signoret , French actress (b.1921 )
* 1985 -Charles Richter , American seismologist (b.1900 )
*1988 -Al Holbert , American race car driver and team owner (b.1946 )
*1989 -Virgil Thompson , American composer (b.1896 )
*1990 -Patrick White , Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b.1912 )
* 1990 -Alice Parizeau , Quebec writer and journalist (b.1930 )
*1994 -Andre Michael Lwoff , French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b.1902 )
*1998 -Dan Quisenberry , American baseball player (b.1953 )
*2002 -Hans-Peter Tschudi , Swiss Federal Councilor (b.1913 )
*2002 -Göran Kropp , Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b.1966 )
* 2003 -Robert Kardashian ,Armenian-American lawyer (b.1944 )
*2003 -Yusuf Bey ,Black Muslim leader (b.1935 )
*2004 -Gamini Fonseka , Sri Lankan actor (b.1936 )
* 2004 -Michael Relph , British film producer and director (b.1915 )
*2008 -Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam , Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore'sWorker's Party (b.1926 )Holidays and observances
*RC Saints - Saint
Jerome
*Botswana -Independence Day (1966 )
*São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
*French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
*International Translation Day , introduced in1991 byInternational Federation of Translators
*September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Nietzschean New Year - In The Anti-Christ,Friederich Nietzsche declared September 30th,1888 to be the "the day of salvation, on the first day of the Year One"External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Sep&day=30 On This Day in Canada] ----
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