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30th of September 1399 EVENT Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
30th of September 1744 EVENT France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
30th of September 1791 EVENT The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart, receives its premiere performance at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
30th of September 1791 EVENT The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as "incorruptible patriots".
30th of September 1813 EVENT Battle of Barbula: Simon Bolivar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
30th of September 1860 EVENT Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
30th of September 1882 EVENT 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.
30th of September 1888 EVENT Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
30th of September 1895 EVENT Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
30th of September 1901 EVENT Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
30th of September 1903 EVENT The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
30th of September 1906 EVENT The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
30th of September 1907 EVENT McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
30th of September 1927 EVENT Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
30th of September 1931 EVENT Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
30th of September 1935 EVENT The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
30th of September 1938 EVENT At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
30th of September 1938 EVENT The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
30th of September 1939 EVENT General W?adys?aw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
30th of September 1941 EVENT World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
30th of September 1945 EVENT The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
30th of September 1947 EVENT The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
30th of September 1947 EVENT The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
30th of September 1949 EVENT The Berlin Airlift ends.
30th of September 1954 EVENT The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
30th of September 1955 EVENT Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
30th of September 1962 EVENT Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez founds the United Farm Workers.
30th of September 1962 EVENT James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
30th of September 1965 EVENT The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
30th of September 1965 EVENT General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
30th of September 1966 EVENT The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
30th of September 1967 EVENT BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
30th of September 1968 EVENT The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
30th of September 1970 EVENT 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.
30th of September 1972 EVENT Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
30th of September 1975 EVENT The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
30th of September 1977 EVENT Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
30th of September 1979 EVENT The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
30th of September 1980 EVENT Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
30th of September 1982 EVENT Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
30th of September 1986 EVENT Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
30th of September 1990 EVENT The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
30th of September 1991 EVENT President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
30th of September 1993 EVENT 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.
30th of September 1994 EVENT Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
30th of September 1999 EVENT Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
30th of September 2004 EVENT The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
30th of September 2004 EVENT The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
30th of September 2005 EVENT The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
30th of September 1207 BIRTHDAY Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
30th of September 1227 BIRTHDAY Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
30th of September 1530 BIRTHDAY Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
30th of September 1550 BIRTHDAY Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
30th of September 1631 BIRTHDAY William Stoughton, American jurist (d. 1701)
30th of September 1700 BIRTHDAY Stanis?aw Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
30th of September 1710 BIRTHDAY John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
30th of September 1715 BIRTHDAY Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
30th of September 1732 BIRTHDAY Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
30th of September 1765 BIRTHDAY Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
30th of September 1800 BIRTHDAY Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
30th of September 1811 BIRTHDAY Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia (d. 1890)
30th of September 1827 BIRTHDAY Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
30th of September 1832 BIRTHDAY Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905)
30th of September 1852 BIRTHDAY Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (d. 1924)
30th of September 1861 BIRTHDAY William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932)
30th of September 1870 BIRTHDAY Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
30th of September 1870 BIRTHDAY Thomas W. Lamont, American banker (d. 1948)
30th of September 1882 BIRTHDAY Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
30th of September 1883 BIRTHDAY Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
30th of September 1887 BIRTHDAY Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
30th of September 1893 BIRTHDAY Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
30th of September 1895 BIRTHDAY Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
30th of September 1897 BIRTHDAY Alfred Wintle, British military figure and author (d. 1966)
30th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Orestis Makris, Greek actor (d. 1975)
30th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Renee Adoree, French actress (d. 1933)
30th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
30th of September 1904 BIRTHDAY Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
30th of September 1905 BIRTHDAY Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
30th of September 1906 BIRTHDAY Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996)
30th of September 1908 BIRTHDAY David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
30th of September 1910 BIRTHDAY Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (d. 1962)
30th of September 1912 BIRTHDAY Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
30th of September 1913 BIRTHDAY Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
30th of September 1915 BIRTHDAY Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician (d. 2003)
30th of September 1917 BIRTHDAY Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)
30th of September 1917 BIRTHDAY Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
30th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Lewis Nixon, American WWII veteran (d. 1995)
30th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Rene Remond, French historian and political economist (d. 2007)
30th of September 1919 BIRTHDAY Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
30th of September 1919 BIRTHDAY Patricia Neway, American soprano
30th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-born American cellist
30th of September 1921 BIRTHDAY Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
30th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Alan Stretton, Australian general
30th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Lamont Johnson, American television director (d. 2010)
30th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
30th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Robin Roberts, American baseball player (d. 2010)
30th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY W. S. Merwin, American poet
30th of September 1928 BIRTHDAY Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor; Nobel laureate
30th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist
30th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Angie Dickinson, American actress
30th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
30th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
30th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Cissy Houston, American gospel singer
30th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Barbara Knox, English actress
30th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Udo Jurgens, Austrian singer
30th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
30th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Alan A'Court, English footballer (d. 2009)
30th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Johnny Mathis, American singer
30th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
30th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
30th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Jurek Becker, German author
30th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel laureate
30th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Len Cariou, Canadian actor
30th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Dewey Martin, Canadian rock musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2009)
30th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and professor
30th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
30th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel laureate
30th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The 5th Dimension)
30th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
30th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
30th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish Celtic footballer
30th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
30th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
30th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Ehud Olmert, Israeli statesman
30th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Paul Sheahan, Australian test cricketer
30th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Claude Vorilhon, French UFO advocate
30th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Jochen Mass, German race car driver
30th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Hector Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
30th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Fran Brill, American actress, voice actress and puppeteer
30th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Marc Bolan, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977)
30th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Rula Lenska, English actress
30th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Craig Kusick, American baseball player
30th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Renato Zero, Italian musician
30th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Barry Marshall, Australian physician, Nobel laureate
30th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
30th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Deborah Allen, American singer
30th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY S. M. Stirling, Canadian author
30th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish singer and songwriter
30th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Barry Williams, American actor
30th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Patrice Rushen, American musician
30th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Trevor Morgan, English footballer and coach
30th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Fran Drescher, American actress
30th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Marty Stuart, American musician
30th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
30th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Blanche Lincoln, American politician
30th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Crystal Bernard, American actress
30th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
30th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Eric Stoltz, American actor
30th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
30th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
30th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Marley Marl, American rapper and record producer
30th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY David Barbe, American musician (Sugar)
30th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
30th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
30th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
30th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
30th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian and actor
30th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
30th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Gary Armstrong, Scotland rugby player
30th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
30th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Mark Smith, English body builder
30th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Tony Hale, American actor
30th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player
30th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Jenna Elfman, American actress
30th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Ari Behn, Norwegian author
30th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Shaan, Indian singer
30th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY John Campbell, American musician (Lamb of God)
30th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Jamal Anderson, American football player
30th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
30th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Eli Cottonwood, American professional wrestler and former basketball player.
30th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Daniel Wu, American-born Chinese film actor, director, and producer
30th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Marion Cotillard, French actress
30th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Carlos Guillen, Venezuelan baseball player
30th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Georges-Alain Jones, French singer
30th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Maia Brewton, American actress
30th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
30th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
30th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
30th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Robinson Zapata, Colombian footballer
30th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
30th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
30th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
30th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer
30th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Camilla D'Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
30th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
30th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
30th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
30th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Brandon Watson, American baseball player
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Lacey Chabert, American actress
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Seth Smith, American baseball player
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Ola Jordan, Professional dancer
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Tory Lane, American nude model and pornographic actress
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Kieran Culkin, American actor
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Michelle Marsh, British model
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Teal Redmann, American actress
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Ryan Stout, American comedian
30th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Ryane Clowe Canadian ice hockey player
30th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Andreea Raducan, Romanian gymnast
30th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Adam Jones, American football player
30th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY T-Pain, American musician
30th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
30th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
30th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Cemil Mengi, Turkish footballer
30th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Quinn Johnson, American football player
30th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player
30th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Christian Zapata, Colombian footballer
30th of September 1987 BIRTHDAY Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer
30th of September 0420 DEATH Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
30th of September 0653 DEATH Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
30th of September 1101 DEATH Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
30th of September 1246 DEATH Yaroslav II of Russia (Born 1191)
30th of September 1440 DEATH Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
30th of September 1487 DEATH John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Born 1400)
30th of September 1551 DEATH Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (Born 1507)
30th of September 1560 DEATH Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (Born 1525)
30th of September 1572 DEATH St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (Born 1510)
30th of September 1581 DEATH Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (Born 1518)
30th of September 1626 DEATH Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (Born 1559)
30th of September 1628 DEATH Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (Born 1554)
30th of September 1770 DEATH Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
30th of September 1770 DEATH George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (Born 1714)
30th of September 1772 DEATH James Brindley, English engineer (Born 1716)
30th of September 1865 DEATH Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (Born 1800)
30th of September 1888 DEATH Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (Born 1843)
30th of September 1888 DEATH Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (Born 1842)
30th of September 1891 DEATH Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (Born 1837)
30th of September 1897 DEATH St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (Born 1873)
30th of September 1910 DEATH Maurice Levy, French engineer (Born 1838)
30th of September 1913 DEATH Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (Born 1858)
30th of September 1941 DEATH Alice de Janze, American heiress (Born 1899)
30th of September 1942 DEATH Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (Born 1919)
30th of September 1943 DEATH Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (Born 1864)
30th of September 1955 DEATH James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (Born 1931)
30th of September 1961 DEATH Onesime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (Born 1888)
30th of September 1973 DEATH Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (Born 1902)
30th of September 1974 DEATH Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor (Born 1915)
30th of September 1977 DEATH Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (Born 1924)
30th of September 1978 DEATH Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (Born 1903)
30th of September 1985 DEATH Simone Signoret, French actress (Born 1921)
30th of September 1985 DEATH Charles Richter, American seismologist (Born 1900)
30th of September 1988 DEATH Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (Born 1946)
30th of September 1989 DEATH Virgil Thomson, American composer (Born 1896)
30th of September 1990 DEATH Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (Born 1968)
30th of September 1990 DEATH Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (Born 1930)
30th of September 1990 DEATH Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1912)
30th of September 1991 DEATH Toma Zdravkovic, Serbian folk singer (Born 1938)
30th of September 1994 DEATH Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902)
30th of September 1995 DEATH Jean-Luc Pepin, Canadian academic and politician (Born 1924)
30th of September 1998 DEATH Marius Goring, British Actor (Born 1912)
30th of September 1998 DEATH Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (Born 1953)
30th of September 2002 DEATH Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1913)
30th of September 2002 DEATH Goran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (Born 1966)
30th of September 2003 DEATH Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (Born 1935)
30th of September 2003 DEATH Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (Born 1944)
30th of September 2004 DEATH Michael Relph, British film producer and director (Born 1915)
30th of September 2004 DEATH Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (Born 1935)
30th of September 2004 DEATH Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (Born 1936)
30th of September 2008 DEATH Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean politician, former Secretary-General of Workers' Party of Singapore (Born 1926)