September 30

is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining.

Events

1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
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.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
1927 - Babe Ruth, Becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
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.
1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
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.
1965 - Civil unrest follows a failed coup 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. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
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.
1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. ).
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 murders.
1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Births

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)
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)
1800 - Decimus Burton, British 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
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (governor of Tokyo)
1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1962)
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 - Nader Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 - Jack Wild, British actor
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress
1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 - Chris Von Erich, Professional wrestler
1970 - Mark Smith, former Gladiator
1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1979 - Andy Van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Brandon Watson, Baseball player
1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
1984 - Keisha Buchanan, British singer (Sugababes)
1984 - Megan Ewing, American supermodel
1990 - Tobi Atkins, Australian actor

Deaths

420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
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 - Ouchi 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)
1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1925)
1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)
2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints - Saint Jerome
Botswana - Independence Day (1966)
São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
International Translation Day
French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

BBC: On This Day

September 29 - October 1 - August 30 - October 30 – more historical anniversaries

Gourt Home::Gourt :: September 30

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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