30 September

The **30t o September** is the 273rd day o the year (274t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 92 days bidin.

## Events

* 1399 - Henry IV o Ingland is proclaimed King.
* 1512 - A rock avalanche hits Biasca, Ticino, Swisserland, killin 100s o fowk.
* 1791 - First performance o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute.
* 1885 - Bechuanaland, nou Botswana, becomes a Breetish protectorate.
* 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
* 1938 - The Unitit Kinrick, Fraunce, Germany an Italy sign the Munich Pact, givin Czechoslovakie tae Germany.
* 1945 - The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, Ingland, kills 43 fowk.
* 1947 - Pakistan jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1953 - In the Bathyscaphe "Trieste", Auguste an Jacques Piccard dive 3,500 metres unner the Paceefic Ocean, the biggest depth reached bi humans until that pynt.
* 1955 - American film star James Dean dies in a car crash agit 24.
* 1960 - The Flintstones is first broadcast.
* 1966 - Botswana gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1968 - The Boeing 747 aircraft model is shown tae the public for the first time.
* 1979 - Formula Ane driver Niki Lauda propales his retirement.
* 1989 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher haulds a famous speech at the Wast German embassy in Prague.
* 1991 - Haitian Preses Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removit frae affice in a coup.
* 1993 - A strang yirdquauk in occurs in Maharashtra, Indie.
* 2005 - The Muhammad cartoons controversy stairts.
* 2006 - The last Unitit States troops withdraw frae their militar base in Keflavik, Iceland.
* 2009 - A strang yirdquauk strikes Sumatra, Indonesie, killin ower 1,100 fowk.
* 2010 - In Ecuador polis afficers, supportit bi pairts o the airmy, attempt a coup against Preses Rafael Correa.
* 2017 - Several fitbaa fans are injured efter fawin ower the advertisin hoardin follaein the celebration o a goal in a match in Amiens, Fraunce.

## Births

* 1227 - Pape Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
* 1732 - Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politeecian (d. 1804)
* 1811 - Augusta o Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen Consort o Proushie (d. 1890)
* 1813 - John Rae, Scots medicinar an splorer (d. 1893)
* 1848 - Robert Walker Macbeth, Scots penter (d. 1910)
* 1859 - George Henry Slight, Scots ingineer, staiblished the Chilean lichthoose service (d. 1934)
* 1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French pheesicist (d. 1942)
* 1882 - Hans Geiger, German pheesicist (d. 1945)
* 1895 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-born American motion pictur director (d. 1980)
* 1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1996)
* 1917 - Park Chung-hee, Preses o Sooth Korea (d. 1979)
* 1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scots actress (d. 2007)
* 1924 - Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984)
* 1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanie-born writer an activist (d. 2016)
* 1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
* 1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrick sangster (d. 2014)
* 1944 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scots fitbawer (d. 2006)
* 1945 - Ehud Olmert, umwhile Prime meenister o Israel
* 1947 - Marc Bolan, Inglis muisicker (d. 1977)
* 1951 - Barry Marshall, Australie medicinar
* 1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch fitbawer
* 1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
* 1965 - Omid Djalili, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
* 1967 - Steve Kean, Scots fitbawer an manager
* 1969 - Alex Rae, Scots fitbawer
* 1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
* 1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
* 1985 - T-Pain, American rapper
* 1986 - Olivier Giroud, French fitbawer
* 1990 - Matt Scott, Scots rugby union player
* 1994 - Aliya Mustafina, Roushie gymnast
* 1996 - Lewis Morgan, Scots fitbawer
* 1997 - Max Verstappen, Belgian-Dutch racin driver

## Daiths
* 1898 - James Edward Tierney Aitchison, Scots surgeon an botanist (b. 1836)
* 1955 - James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
* 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
* 1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
* 2011 - Ralph Steinman, Canadian medical researcher (b. 1943)
* 2014 - Martin Lewis Perl, American pheesicist (b. 1927)
* 2016 - Mike Towell, Scots boxer (b. 1991)

## Halidays
* Naitional Day o Botswana
* Internaitional Translation Day