Title: September 30 Content: It is the last day of the third quarter of the year. == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 489 Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under King Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time in Verona, present-day Northern Italy. * 1061 Pope Alexander II is elected. * 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. * 1512 A rock avalanche buries most of the town of Biasca in Ticino, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Hundreds of people are killed. * 1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo. * 1791 First performance of The Magic Flute: This is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to have its premiere. * 1791 The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as 'incorruptible patriots'. * 1813 Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla. * 1860 The UK's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside. * 1867 The US takes control of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean. * 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. * 1885 Bechuanaland, in present-day Botswana, becomes a British Protectorate. * 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. * 1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate. * 1906 Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana. * 1907 Opening of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. It is the final resting place of US President William McKinley and his family. * 1911 The dam of the Austin Reservoir in Pennsylvania bursts, killing 78 people. * 1915 A Serbian army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire. * 1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season. * 1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. * 1935 "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network. * 1938 The Munich Pact is signed. * 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". * 1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile. * 1941 Holocaust: The Nazis complete the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, in which thousands of people are killed. * 1945 The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people. * 1947 The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations. * 1947 Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time. * 1949 The Berlin Airlift ends. * 1950 Korean War: South Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel for the first time. === 1951 2000 === * 1953 On board the bathyscaphe Trieste, Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard travel to a depth 3,150 meters below the surface of the sea, which at that time had been the deepest point anyone had travelled. * 1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel. * 1955 James Dean dies in a car crash. * 1960 The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show airs on NBC. * 1960 The first episode of The Flintstones is shown on television. * 1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers. * 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation. * 1962 Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio. * 1965 Civil unrest follows a failed coup 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. 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. * 1967 Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon. * 1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time. * 1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings. * 1972 Baseball: Roberto Clemente has the 3,000th hit of his career. * 1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. * 1976 Muhammad Ali defends his Heavyweight Boxing Title, against Ken Norton. * 1979 Niki Lauda retires from Formula One racing. * 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 TV sitcom Cheers premieres. * 1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel's covert nuclear programme to British media, is kidnapped in Rome by the Israeli Mossad. * 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. * 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. * 1997 Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre. * 1999 Japan's then-worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels. === From 2001 === * 2004 AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy. * 2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of Tokyo. * 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. * 2009 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people. * 2010 In Ecuador, police officers, supported by parts of the army, attempt a failed coup against President Rafael Correa. * 2012 British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had died in October 2011, is revealed to have carried out sexual abuses over a period of decades. * 2012 Europe wins the Ryder Cup golf tournament, with a comeback against the United States from 10-6 behind to win 14.5 to 13.5. * 2013 Pope Francis announces that Pope John Paul II is to become a saint in April 2014, nine years after his death. * 2022 - Vladimir Putin pronounces the Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine. == Births == === Up to 1900 === * 1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273). * 1227 Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292). * 1530 Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist (d. 1606). * 1550 Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631). * 1689 Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753). * 1710 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771). * 1710 Stanislaw Konarski, Polish monk, poet and playwright (d. 1773). * 1715 Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780). * 1732 Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician (d. 1804). * 1743 Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer (d. 1813). * 1765 José Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815). * 1800 Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881). * 1811 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890). * 1813 John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893) * 1827 Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918). * 1832 Ann Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905). * 1833 Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer (d. 1906). * 1836 Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (d. 1894). * 1848 Robert Walker Macbeth, Scottish painter (d. 1910). * 1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor and educator (d. 1924) * 1859 George Henry Slight, Scottish engineer, creator of the Chilean lighthouse service (d. 1934) * 1861 William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932). * 1868 José Serrato, 24th President of Uruguay (d. 1960). * 1870 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942). * 1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945). * 1883 Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, British-born American engineer, architect and Women's Rights activist (d. 1945). * 1883 Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945). * 1887 Lil Dagover, Dutch-born actress (d. 1980). * 1891 Otto Schmidt, Russian politician, mathematician, geophysicist and Arctic explorer (d. 1956). * 1895 Lewis Milestone, Russian-born movie director (d. 1980). * 1897 Gaspar Cassado, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966). * 1898 Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977). === 1901 1950 === * 1902 Ryuzo Shimizu, Japanese footballer (date of death unknown). * 1904 Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971). * 1905 Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996). * 1905 Michael Powell, British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1990). * 1906 Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996). * 1908 David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974). * 1910 Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer (d. 1962). * 1912 Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985). * 1913 Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975). * 1914 Baby Ray, American football player (d. 1986). * 1915 Lester Maddox, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003). * 1916 Richard K. Guy, British mathematician * 1917 Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (d. 2014). * 1917 Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979). * 1917 Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987). * 1918 René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007). * 1918 Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015). * 1919 William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013). * 1920 Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (d. 1995). * 1921 Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007). * 1921 Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (d. 2013). * 1922 Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1960). * 1924 Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984). * 1926 Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012). * 1927 Hossein Dehlavi, Iranian composer (d. 2019). * 1927 W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019). * 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, activist and writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2016). * 1928 Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (d. 1992). * 1929 Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017). * 1931 Angie Dickinson, American actress. * 1931 Teresa Gorman, English politician (d. 2015). * 1932 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese writer and politician. * 1932 Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor. * 1933 Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon. * 1933 Cissy Houston, American singer. * 1934 Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (d. 2018). * 1934 Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (d. 2014). * 1934 Anna Kashfi, Indian-born actress (d. 2015). * 1935 Johnny Mathis, American singer. * 1936 Jim Sasser, 6th United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. * 1939 Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist. * 1940 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, English politician. * 1941 Kamalesh Sharma, 5th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. * 1942 Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll musician (d. 1968). * 1943 Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist. * 1943 Ian Ogilvy, English actor. * 1944 Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006). * 1945 Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel. * 1945 José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996). * 1946 Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer. * 1946 Claude Vorilhon, French journalist. * 1946 Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (d. 1993). * 1947 Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977). * 1947 Rula Lenska, English actress. * 1950 Laura Esquivel, Mexican author. === 1951 1975 === * 1951 Barry Marshall, Australian physician. * 1951 Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic. * 1952 John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. * 1954 Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi- instrumentalist * 1954 Basia, Polish singer-songwriter. * 1955 Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. * 1956 Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer. * 1957 Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, comedienne and activist. * 1958 Marty Stuart, American country musician. * 1959 Debrah Farentino, American actress. * 1959 Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach. * 1960 Blanche Lincoln, American politician. * 1961 Eric Stoltz, American actor. * 1961 Crystal Bernard, American singer- songwriter and actress. * 1961 Mel Stride, English politician. * 1962 Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer. * 1964 Monica Bellucci, Italian actress. * 1964 Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. * 1964 Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player. * 1965 Omid Djalili, English comedian and actor. * 1965 Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter * 1965 Kathleen Madigan, American comedienne and actress. * 1966 Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player. * 1967 Steve Kean, Scottish football manager. * 1969 Alex Rae, Scottish footballer. * 1970 Damian Mori, American actor. * 1970 Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor and producer. * 1971 Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Italian actor. * 1971 Jenna Elfman, American actress. * 1972 Ari Behn, Norwegian writer. * 1974 Tom Greatrex, English politician. * 1974 Daniel Wu, American-Hong Kong actor, director and producer. * 1975 Marion Cotillard, French actress. * 1975 Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player. * 1975 Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch politician. === From 1976 === * 1977 Sun Juhai, Chinese footballer. * 1977 Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer. * 1978 Candice Michelle, American female wrestler. * 1979 Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer. * 1979 Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower. * 1979 Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer. * 1980 Christian Cantwell, American shot putter. * 1980 Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player. * 1981 Cecelia Ahern, Irish writer. * 1982 Lacey Chabert, American actress. * 1982 Kieran Culkin, American actor. * 1982 Ola Jordan, Polish-British ballroom dancer. * 1982 Teal Redmann, American actress. * 1982 Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player. * 1984 Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes). * 1984 Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer. * 1985 Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (d. 2017). * 1985 T-Pain, American rapper. * 1985 Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer. * 1986 Olivier Giroud, French footballer. * 1986 Cristian Zapata, Colombian footballer. * 1987 Lauren Holiday, American soccer player. * 1987 Rumi Harai, Japanese actress, model and gymnast. * 1992 Ezra Miller, American actor. * 1994 Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast. * 1996 Lewis Morgan, Scottish footballer. * 1997 Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast. * 1997 Max Verstappen, Belgian-Dutch racing driver. * 2002 Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress. == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * 420 Jerome, Roman priest, theologian and historian (b. 347) * 653 Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury * 954 King Louis IV of France (b. 920) * 1101 Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan * 1246 Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191) * 1440 Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362) * 1487 John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400) * 1560 Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525) * 1572 Saint Francis of Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510) * 1626 Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559) * 1628 Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician (b. 1554) * 1770 Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat (b. 1695) * 1865 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800) * 1888 Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843) * 1888 Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843) * 1891 Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837) * 1897 Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (b. 1873) === 1901 2000 === * 1910 Maurice Levy, French engineer (b. 1838) * 1914 Yu Kil-chun, Korean politician (b. 1856) * 1932 Constantin Coanda, Romanian politician (b. 1857) * 1934 Giuseppe Mori, Italian cardinal (b. 1850) * 1942 Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (b. 1919) * 1943 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864) * 1948 Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861) * 1953 Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (b. 1881) * 1955 James Dean, American actor (b. 1931) * 1973 Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and actor (b. 1902) * 1974 Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General (b. 1915) * 1977 Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1924) * 1985 Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921) * 1985 Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900) * 1990 Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912) * 1994 André Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902) * 1994 Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924) === From 2001 === * 2002 Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966) * 2002 Hans- Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1913) * 2003 Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (b. 1944) * 2004 Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director and politician (b. 1936) * 2004 Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935) * 2004 Michael Relph, English director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1915) * 2007 Joe Mitty, English humanitarian, founder of Oxfam (b. 1919) * 2010 Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941) * 2011 Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971) * 2011 Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943) * 2012 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (b. 1928) * 2012 Barry Commoner, American biologist (b. 1917) * 2013 Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1923) * 2013 Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor and director (b. 1928) * 2014 Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician and businessman (b. 1942) * 2014 Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925) * 2014 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (b. 1927) * 2015 Kelly Gissendaner, American criminal (b. 1968) * 2015 Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951) * 2015 Guido Altarelli, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1941) * 2015 Ricky Talan, Dutch footballer (b. 1960) * 2016 Oscar Brand, Canadian-American folk singer-songwriter and author (b. 1920) * 2016 Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (b. 1991) * 2017 Monty Hall, Canadian-American game show host (b. 1921) * 2017 Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (b. 1947) * 2017 Donald Malarkey, American army officer (b. 1921) * 2017 Joe Tiller, American football player (b. 1942) * 2017 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966) * 2018 Edredon Bleu, British-bred racehorse (b. 1992) * 2018 Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor (b. 1942) * 2018 Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945) * 2018 René Pétillon, French cartoonist (b. 1945) * 2019 David Akers-Jones, British politician (b. 1927) * 2019 Wayne Fitzgerald, American film and television title designer (b. 1930) * 2019 Viju Khote, Indian actor (b. 1941) * 2019 Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941) * 2019 Jessye Norman, American opera singer (b. 1945) * 2019 Ben Pon, Dutch racing driver (b. 1936) == Observances == * Independence Day (Botswana) * International Translation Day (after Jerome, Bible translator) Category:Days of the year