Events
September 30
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– 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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