September 30
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September.
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 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 - César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers .
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi , defying segregation .
1965 - Civil unrest followed a failed c'oup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana .
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 area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare .
1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague
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 Tokai-mura , northeast of Tokyo, Japan . Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
Births
1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi , Sufi mystic and poet (d. 1273 )
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 )
1895 - Lewis Milestone , Russian /American movie director (d. 1980 )
1898 - Renee Adoree , French actress (d. 1933 )
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977 )
1904 - Waldo Williams , poet (d. 1971 )
1908 - David Oistrakh , Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974 )
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
1934 - Udo Jürgens , Austrian] singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1935 - Johnny Mathis , singer
1942 - Dewey Martin , drummer
1942 - Frankie Lymon , singer (d.1962 )
1943 - Marilyn McCoo , singer
1947 - Marc Bolan , musician (d. 1977 )
1954 - Barry Williams , actor, The Brady Bunch 1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska , Polish -born jazz /pop singer/song-writter.
1961 - Eric Stoltz , actor
1964 - Trey Anastasio , musician (Phish )
1972 - Ari Behn , Norwegian author
1980 - Martina Hingis , Swiss tennis player
1982 - Lacey Chabert , actress
1990 - Tobi Atkins , actor
Deaths
420 - Saint Jerome , translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius , Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka , Japanese warlord (b. 1507 )
1572 - St. Francis Borgia , Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (b. 1510 )
1581 - Hubert Languet , French diplomat
1913 - Rudolf Diesel , German inventor
1955 - James Dean , American actor
1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke , English poet
1976 - Mary Ford , singer
1985 - Simone Signoret , French actress
1998 - Dan Quisenberry , baseball pitcher (b. 1953 )
Holidays and observances
External links
September 29 - October 1 - August 30 - October 30 - more historical anniversaries
