What happened on September 30? There are more than 288 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 30
September 30 is the 274th day of the year 2024. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 40th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Orviston, Pennsylvania 16864 sunrise occured at 07:06 AM and sunset occured at 06:55 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 30
- 1399Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1744France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
- 1791The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
- 1791The 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.
- 1813Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1860Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- 1882Thomas 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.
- 1888Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- 1895Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 1903The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
- 1906The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- 1907McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1927Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 1931Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- 1935The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1938At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 1939General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1941World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- 1945The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
- 1947The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
- 1947The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1949The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 1954The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1955Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- 1962James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 1962Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
- 1965The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
- 1966The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
- 1967BBC 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.
- 1968The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- 1970Jordan 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.
- 1972Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
- 1975The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- 1977Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1979The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- 1980Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 1982Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
- 1986Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
- 1990The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
- 1993An 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.
- 1994Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
- 1994Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
- 1999Japan’s second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- 2004The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
- 2004The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
- 2005The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- 2009The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
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Who Were Born On September 30?
- 1207Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
- 1227Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
- 1530Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
- 1550Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
- 1631William Stoughton, American jurist (d. 1701)
- 1700Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
- 1710John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
- 1715Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- 1732Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
- 1765José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
- 1800Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
- 1811Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia (d. 1890)
- 1813John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
- 1827Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
- 1832Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905)
- 1852Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (d. 1924)
- 1861William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932)
- 1870Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
- 1870Thomas W. Lamont, American banker (d. 1948)
- 1882Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
- 1883Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
- 1887Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
- 1893Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
- 1895Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
- 1897Alfred Wintle, British military figure and author (d. 1966)
- 1897Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966)
- 1898Orestis Makris, Greek actor (d. 1975)
- 1898Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
- 1898Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
- 1901Thelma Terry, American bandleader and bassist (d. 1966)
- 1904Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
- 1905Michael Powell, British screenwriter, film director, and producer (d. 1990)
- 1905Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1906Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996)
- 1908David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
- 1910Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (d. 1962)
- 1912Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1913Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
- 1915Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician (d. 2003)
- 1917Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)
- 1917Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
- 1918Lewis Nixon, American WWII veteran (d. 1995)
- 1918René Rémond, French historian and political economist (d. 2007)
- 1919Patricia Neway, American soprano
- 1919Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
- 1920Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-born American cellist
- 1921Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
- 1922Alan Stretton, Australian general
- 1922Lamont Johnson, American television director (d. 2010)
- 1923Donald Swann, member of the group Flanders and Swann (d. 1994)
- 1924Nikos Rizos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
- 1924Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
- 1926Robin Roberts, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1927W. S. Merwin, American poet
- 1928Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor; Nobel laureate
- 1929Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist
- 1931Angie Dickinson, American actress
- 1932Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
- 1932Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
- 1933Barbara Knox, English actress
- 1933Ben Cooper, American actor
- 1933Cissy Houston, American gospel singer
- 1934Alan A'Court, English footballer (d. 2009)
- 1934Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
- 1934Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
- 1935Johnny Mathis, American singer
- 1935Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
- 1936Jim Sasser, American Senator
- 1937Jurek Becker, German author
- 1937Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
- 1938Alan Hacker, English clarinettist and professor of the Royal Academy of Music
- 1939Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1939Len Cariou, Canadian actor
- 1940Dewey Martin, Canadian rock musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2009)
- 1940Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and professor
- 1942Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
- 1942Gus Dudgeon, record producer (d. 2002)
- 1943Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
- 1943Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1943Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The 5th Dimension)
- 1944Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
- 1944Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish Celtic footballer (d. 2006)
- 1944Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
- 1945Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
- 1945Ehud Olmert, Israeli statesman
- 1946Claude Vorilhon, French UFO advocate
- 1946Fran Brill, American actress, voice actress and puppeteer
- 1946Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
- 1946Jochen Mass, German race car driver
- 1946Paul Sheahan, Australian test cricketer
- 1947Marc Bolan, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977)
- 1947Rula Lenska, English actress
- 1948Craig Kusick, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1950Renato Zero, Italian musician
- 1951Barry Marshall, Australian physician, Nobel laureate
- 1951John Lloyd British comedy writer and televison producer
- 1952Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
- 1952John Lombardo, musician, founding member of 10,000 Maniacs
- 1953Deborah Allen, American singer
- 1953Matt Abts, American drummer (Gov't Mule)
- 1953S. M. Stirling, Canadian author
- 1954Barry Williams, American actor
- 1954Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish singer and songwriter
- 1954Patrice Rushen, American musician
- 1954Scott Fields, guitarist and composer
- 1955Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- 1955Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute and tin whistle player
- 1956Trevor Morgan, English footballer and coach
- 1957Fran Drescher, American actress
- 1958Marty Stuart, American musician
- 1959Debrah Farentino, American actress
- 1959Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
- 1960Blanche Lincoln, American politician
- 1960Julia Adamson, composer/musician
- 1960Miki Howard, American singer and actress
- 1961Crystal Bernard, American actress
- 1961Eric Stoltz, American actor
- 1961Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
- 1961Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1962Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
- 1962Marley Marl, American rapper and record producer
- 1963David Barbe, American musician (Sugar)
- 1964Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
- 1964Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
- 1964Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
- 1965Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
- 1965Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian and actor
- 1966Gary Armstrong, Scotland rugby player
- 1966Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
- 1966Markus Burger, German pianist, composer and music educator
- 1967Andrea Roth, Candian actress
- 1969Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
- 1969Mark Smith, English body builder
- 1970Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player
- 1970Tony Hale, American actor
- 1971Jenna Elfman, American actress
- 1972Ari Behn, Norwegian author
- 1972Jamal Anderson, American football player
- 1972John Campbell, American musician (Lamb of God)
- 1972José Lima, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1972Shaan, Indian singer
- 1974Daniel Wu, American-born Chinese film actor, director, and producer
- 1974Eli Cottonwood, American professional wrestler and former basketball player.
- 1974Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
- 1975Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1975Georges-Alain Jones, French singer
- 1975Jay Asher, American novelist
- 1975Marion Cotillard, French actress
- 1975Sammy Igoe, English footballer
- 1977Maia Brewton, American actress
- 1977Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
- 1977Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
- 1978Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
- 1978Róbinson Zapata, Colombian footballer
- 1979Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
- 1979Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
- 1979Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
- 1979Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
- 1980Camilla D’Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
- 1980Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- 1980Simon Little, English bassist
- 1981Brandon Watson, American baseball player
- 1981Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
- 1981Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
- 1982Kieran Culkin, American actor
- 1982Lacey Chabert, American actress
- 1982Michelle Marsh, British model
- 1982Ola Jordan, Professional dancer
- 1982Ryan Stout, American comedian
- 1982Ryane Clowe Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982Seth Smith, American baseball player
- 1982Teal Redmann, American actress
- 1982Tory Lane, American nude model and pornographic actress
- 1982Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983Adam Jones, American football player
- 1983Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
- 1984Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1984Keisha Buchanan, British singer and songwriter (Sugababes)
- 1985Adam Cooney, Australian rules footballer
- 1985T-Pain, American musician
- 1986Cemil Mengi, Turkish footballer
- 1986Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
- 1986Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
- 1986Quinn Johnson, American football player
- 1986Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player
- 1987Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer
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Who Died On September 30?
- 420Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
- 653Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 954King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
- 1101Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
- 1246Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
- 1440Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
- 1487John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
- 1551Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
- 1560Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
- 1572St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
- 1581Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
- 1626Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
- 1628Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
- 1770George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
- 1770Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
- 1772James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
- 1865Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
- 1888Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
- 1888Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
- 1891Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
- 1897Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
- 1910Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
- 1913Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
- 1941Alice de Janzé, American heiress (b. 1899)
- 1942Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
- 1943Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1955James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1961Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
- 1973Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
- 1974Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor (b. 1915)
- 1977Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
- 1978Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
- 1985Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
- 1985Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
- 1988Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
- 1989Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
- 1990Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
- 1990Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1990Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (b. 1968)
- 1991Toma Zdravković, Serbian folk singer (b. 1938)
- 1994André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
- 1995Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1924)
- 1998Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
- 1998Marius Goring, British Actor (b. 1912)
- 2002Göran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b. 1966)
- 2002Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
- 2003Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
- 2003Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
- 2004Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
- 2004Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b. 1935)
- 2004Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
- 2008Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean politician, former Secretary-General of Workers’ Party of Singapore (b. 1926)
- 2010Aaron-Carl Ragland, American electronic dance musician (b. 1973)
- 2011Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)
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