September 30
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September 30 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining after September 30 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292).
- 1732 – Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician (d. 1804).
- 1811 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890).
- 1813 – John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893)
- 1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942).
- 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945).
- 1887 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born actress (d. 1980).
- 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977).
- 1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996).
- 1915 – Lester Maddox, American politician (d. 2003).
- 1917 – Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979).
- 1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007).
- 1924 – Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984).
- 1928 – Elie Wiesel, activist and writer.
- 1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress.
- 1934 – Udo Juergens, Austrian singer.
- 1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer.
- 1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist.
- 1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
- 1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006).
- 1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician.
- 1947 – Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977).
- 1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress.
- 1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician.
- 1956 – Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer.
- 1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor.
- 1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer.
- 1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
- 1965 – Omid Djalili, British comedian and actor.
- 1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress.
- 1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author.
- 1975 – Marion Cotillard, French actress.
- 1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer.
- 1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
- 1979 – Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower.
- 1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player.
- 1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish author.
- 1984 – Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
- 1985 – T-Pain, American rapper.
[change] Deaths
- 954 – King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
- 1246 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
- 1626 – Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559)
- 1888 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
- 1888 – Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
- 1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
- 1897 – Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
- 1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
- 1994 – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
- 2002 – Goran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966)
- 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941)
- 2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
- 2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943)
[change] 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.
- 1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1935 – "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
- 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.
- 1955 – James Dean dies in a car crash.
- 1960 – The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
- 1960 – The first episode of The Flintstones is shown on television.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 1997 – Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a 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. 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.
- 2009 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (Botswana)
