September
30
Independence
Day
Botswana : September 30 1966
Events
September 30
489 – Battle
of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat
the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern
Italy).
737 – Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion
of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their
baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the
Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera
by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater
auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved;
Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible
patriots".
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – Thomas Edison'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.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field
Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest
linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated
U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in
Canton, Ohio.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60
home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement
for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states
of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the
Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland
region of Czechoslovakia.
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.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe
C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England,
kills 43
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United
Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the 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 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the
National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United
Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi,
defying segregation.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130
Hercules, is introduced.
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 Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service
are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio
1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first
show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public
for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages
from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of
his career.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64
Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves,
the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon
are shut down.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening
of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working
with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago
area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert
nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy
by the Israeli Mossad.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human
Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
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.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the
London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground
from Central London, closes.
1999 – Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing
facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural
habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14
Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the
Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in
the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115
people.
Holidays
and observances
Agricultural
Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
Blasphemy Day (United States, Canada, other countries)
Christian Feast Day:
Gregory the Illuminator
Honorius of Canterbury
Jerome
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day or Botswana Day, celebrate the independence
of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
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