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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.
- 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 - The submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy
Doody Show" airs 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.
- 1965 - Riots break out in Indonesia,
resulting in the deaths of local communists and ethnic Chinese.
- 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. Seven were killed in all.
- 1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
- 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, and was earlier indicted by the
Department of Justice for conspiring to murder wife Doris Angleton, along with weapons charges.
Births
- 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV
(d. 1292)
- 1732 - Jacques Necker, french
diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
- 1800 - Decimus Burton,
architect (d. 1881)
- 1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
- 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
- 1895 - Lewis Milestone,
Russian/American movie director (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d.
1975)
- 1917 - Park Chunghee, President
of South Korea (d. 1979)
- 1917 - Buddy Rich, drummer (d. 1987)
- 1921 - Deborah Kerr, actress
- 1924 - Truman Capote, author
(d. 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 (d. 1968)
- 1943 - Marilyn McCoo, singer
- 1946 - Hector Lavoe, salsa music singer
- 1947 - Marc Bolan, musician (d.
1977)
- 1954 - Barry Williams, actor,
The Brady Bunch
- 1961 - Eric Stoltz, actor
- 1972 - Theo Kelly, [Australia|Australian], Political photographer.
- 1978 - Michael Heien, chemist
- 1980 - Martina Hingis,
Swiss tennis player
Deaths
Holidays
September 29 - October 1
- August 30 - October 30 - more
historical anniversaries
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