September 30

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 Barbula: Simon Bolivar 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 Wladyslaw 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 (SSN-571)|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 Cesar Chavez 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 Jose 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 Bermudez, 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 Jose 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 Rene Remond, 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 Jurgens, 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 Jose Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996).
1946 Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer.
1946 Claude Vorilhon, French journalist.
1946 Hector 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 Guillen, 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 Rodriguez, 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 Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
1994 Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924)
From 2001
2002 Goran 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 Rene Petillon, 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)
Days of the year