September 30

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

1399 - Henry IV 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.
1947 - World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends
1954 - Submarine USS Nautilus commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" 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 - Cesar Chavez founds the United Farm Workers
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation
1966 - Botswana declares its independence
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, Illinois area
1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premiere.
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 Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
2003 - The extradition hearing of Robert Angleton will be held by the Dutch. He committed crimes in both the Netherlands and the United States by passport fraud. He was earlier indicted by the Department of Justice for conspiring to murder wife Doris Angleton, along with weapons charges.

Births

1732 - Jacques Necker, french diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI
1800 - Decimus Burton, architect († 1881)
1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist († 1945)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco
1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian/American movie director († 1980)
1913 - Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer († 1975)
1917 - Buddy Rich, drummer († 1987)
1921 - Deborah Kerr, actress
1924 - Truman Capote, author († 1984)
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, author, lecturer
1931 - Angie Dickinson, actress
1933 - Cissy Houston, singer, mother of Whitney Houston
1935 - Johnny Mathis, singer
1942 - Dewey Martin, drummer
1942 - Frankie Lymon, singer († 1968)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, singer
1947 - Marc Bolan, musician († 1977)
1954 - Barry Williams, actor
1961 - Eric Stoltz, actor
1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player

Deaths

420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat
1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
1955 - James Dean, American actor
1976 - Mary Ford, singer
1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress

Holidays

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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