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September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1781 - American War of Independence: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
1791 - The Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 - 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.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1947 - The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 - Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident, at age 24.
1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 - 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 of Indonesian suspected as communists.
1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
1970 - 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.
1972 - Roberto Clemente gets his 3000th base hit becoming just the 11th player to do so.
1975 - The J. Edgar Hoover Building is dedicatred by President Gerald Ford.
1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
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 murders.
1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
1993 - 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.
1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.

Births

1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1883 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
1915 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1917 - Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1919 - Patricia Neway, American soprano
1920 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 - Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
1933 - Barbara Knox, English actress
1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 - Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1943 - Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1946 - Paul Sheahan, Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 - Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1947 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
1947 - Rula Lenska,English Actress
1948 - Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player
1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 - Deborah Allen, American singer
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
1954 - Patrice Rushen, American musician
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 - Marty Stuart, American musician
1959 - Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress
1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 - Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1962 - Shaan, Indian singer
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1968 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 - Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 - Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
1975 - Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1977 - Maia Brewton, American actress
1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1979 - Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 - Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1985 - T-Pain, American rapper/singer
1987 - Denise Laurel, Filipine actress and singer