Notable Historical Events on September 30th
September 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1199 |
Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew |
1399 |
King Richard II of England abdicates |
1520 |
Suleiman I (the Magnificent) succeeds his father Selam I as Sultan of Turkey (rules till 1566) |
1544 |
King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France |
1555 |
Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic |
1619 |
Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp |
1626 |
Battle between King Bethlen Gabor & Earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends |
1649 |
Last Swedish troops vacate Prague |
1659 |
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe) |
1659 |
Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US) |
1681 |
Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty |
1730 |
Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns |
1744 |
France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo. |
1777 |
Continental Congress, flees to York, Pa, as British forces advance |
1787 |
1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston |
1791 |
Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna |
1791 |
The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots. |
1805 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine |
1808 |
Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire |
1813 |
Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla |
1818 |
Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England |
1841 |
Samuel Slocum patented the stapler |
1846 |
Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth |
1857 |
US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii |
1862 |
First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri |
1864 |
Battle of Preble's Farm VA (Poplar Springs Church) |
1864 |
Black soldiers given US Medal of Honor |
1867 |
Midway Islands formally declared a US possession |
1868 |
Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France |
1877 |
1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club) |
1878 |
1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii |
1878 |
Great Flood hits New Zealand's South Island |
1880 |
Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula |
1885 |
Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate |
1887 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG) |
1887 |
Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup |
1888 |
"Jack the Ripper" murders 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes, in Whitechapel, London |
1895 |
France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar |
1898 |
City of NY established |
1903 |
New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. |
1904 |
White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days |
1906 |
Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana. |
1907 |
Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice & Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs Boston) |
1908 |
Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue" premieres in Moscow |
1915 |
Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit |
1916 |
Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak |
1916 |
Eleftherios Venizelos announces he is forming a Provisional Government in Crete as an alternative to the one in Athens; he is determined to bring Greece into the war on the side of the Allies |
1919 |
Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers" premieres in NYC |
1919 |
Race riot at Elaine Arkansas |
1920 |
Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC |
1922 |
Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece |
1922 |
Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1 |
1923 |
Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season |
1924 |
Allies stop checking on German navy |
1925 |
General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament |
1926 |
German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary) |
1928 |
Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) |
1928 |
Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr |
1929 |
1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
1931 |
Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa. |
1933 |
Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC |
1934 |
Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3 |
1934 |
St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year |
1935 |
Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston |
1935 |
The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by FDR |
1936 |
International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends |
1936 |
Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England |
1937 |
6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport & Ainsdale, England |
1938 |
Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany |
1939 |
1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC) |
1939 |
41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton) |
1939 |
Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland |
1939 |
White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance |
1939 |
Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war. |
1940 |
47 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940 |
59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) |
1941 |
3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine |
1941 |
53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) |
1941 |
German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins |
1942 |
98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) |
1942 |
Admiral Nimitz's B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map |
1942 |
SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period |
1943 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit |
1944 |
-Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth |
1944 |
Calais reoccupied by Allies |
1944 |
Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms |
1945 |
Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins pennant for Tigers |
1945 |
Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43 |
1946 |
22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg |
1946 |
Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial |
1947 |
Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised |
1949 |
Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights |
1949 |
Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September |
1950 |
1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris |
1950 |
Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time |
1950 |
WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record) |
1953 |
Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court |
1953 |
Robert Anderson's "Tea & Sympathy" premieres in NYC |
1953 |
WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins |
1954 |
"Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances |
1954 |
USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the US Navy |
1956 |
Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR |
1956 |
White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses) |
1957 |
French government of Mauroy resigns due to Algeria |
1957 |
WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1960 |
Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show) |
1960 |
On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
1960 |
West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
1961 |
Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost |
1962 |
A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk |
1962 |
JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi |
1962 |
James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi |
1962 |
KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open |
1962 |
NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1 |
1962 |
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers. |
1963 |
"Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1963 |
56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office |
1964 |
"Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 perfs |
1965 |
Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig) |
1965 |
LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts |
1966 |
Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1966 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1967 |
BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1) |
1967 |
Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) |
1967 |
USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking |
1968 |
1st Boeing 747 rolls out |
1968 |
AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires |
1968 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Supremes release "Love Child" |
1969 |
Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant |
1970 |
New American Bible published |
1970 |
A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland |
1971 |
-11/6] Rome: 3rd bishop synod |
1971 |
Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field |
1971 |
Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal launch the [Ulster] Democratic Unionist Party |
1972 |
Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
1972 |
Roberto Clemente is 11th to get 3,000 hits |
1973 |
3rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 |
1973 |
4th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54 |
1973 |
Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
1973 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open |
1973 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1973 |
Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk resigns as manager |
1974 |
Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as pres of Portugal |
1975 |
5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY) |
1975 |
The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. |
1977 |
Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns |
1977 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo the 4th" album |
1977 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1977 |
Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down. |
1977 |
Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines |
1978 |
Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati |
1978 |
Phillies clinch NL East title |
1978 |
Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title |
1979 |
Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout |
1979 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
1980 |
1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
1980 |
A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100 |
1980 |
Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. |
1981 |
Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to KC 5-2 |
1981 |
Seoul, South Korea, is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics |
1982 |
National railroad strike in Belgium |
1984 |
California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game |
1984 |
Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner |
1984 |
Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6 |
1984 |
California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0 |
1984 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg |
1985 |
Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY) |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov |
1986 |
Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy. |
1987 |
Suriname constitution ratified |
1988 |
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Soviet Foreign Minister |
1988 |
Dave Stieb loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th |
1988 |
IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer |
1988 |
Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal |
1988 |
Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show |
1988 |
LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings |
1989 |
NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension |
1989 |
Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout |
1989 |
Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal |
1989 |
Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title |
1989 |
Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague. |
1990 |
Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park |
1990 |
Pittsburgh Pirates wins NL East title |
1990 |
The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa. |
1991 |
Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti |
1991 |
Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show "The Jerry Springer Show" debuts |
1992 |
26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins |
1992 |
KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits |
1992 |
Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars |
1993 |
6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed |
1993 |
US General Colin Powell retires at 56 |
1993 |
MS Dos 6.2 released |
1994 |
NHL goes on strike |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit |
1994 |
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi |
1994 |
Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election |
1995 |
Cleve Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season |
1997 |
1st time 3 cons HRs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (NY Yankees) |
1997 |
Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits |
1997 |
Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 |
1997 |
Yanks Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Indians 8-6) |
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. |
2012 |
Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election |
2012 |
Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq |
2012 |
Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final |
2012 |
Europe defeats the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup |
2013 |
54 people are killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq |
2014 |
A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas |
2016 |
Angered by 9/11 Victims Law, Saudis Rethink US Alliance |
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