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.
• 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.
• 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, Sufi mystic and poet (d. 1273)
• 1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
• 1732 – Jacques Necker, French diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
• 1800 – Decimus Burton, architect (d. 1881)
• 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
• 1895 – Lewis Milestone, Russian/American movie director (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Renee Adoree, French actress (d. 1933)
• 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Waldo Williams, poet (d. 1971)
• 1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
• 1913 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
• 1917 – Buddy Rich, drummer (d.1987)
• 1921 – Deborah Kerr, actress
• 1924 – Truman Capote, author (d. 1984)
• 1928 – Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, author, lecturer
• 1931 – Angie Dickinson, actress
• 1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian] singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
• 1935 – Johnny Mathis, singer
• 1942 – Dewey Martin, drummer
• 1942 – Frankie Lymon, singer (d.1962)
• 1943 – Marilyn McCoo, singer
• 1947 – Marc Bolan, musician (d. 1977)
• 1954 – Barry Williams, actor, The Brady Bunch
• 1954 – Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born jazz/pop singer/song-writter.
• 1961 – Eric Stoltz, actor
• 1964 – Trey Anastasio, musician (Phish)
• 1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author
• 1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
• 1982 – Lacey Chabert, actress
• 1990 – Tobi Atkins, 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, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
• 1955 – James Dean, American actor
• 1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet
• 1976 – Mary Ford, singer
• 1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress
• 1998 – Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (b. 1953)

Holidays and observances

• Independence Day in Botswana (1966)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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