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What happened in history on this day: September 30?
On September 30 in ...
- 1399 - King Richard II of England is deposed.
- 1452 - Johann Guttenberg prints his first book, the Bible, at his workshop in Mainz, Germany.
- 1630 - First execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 1659 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services.
- 1755 - England and Russia sign Treaty of Petersburg, in which England will pay 500,000 pounds per year for service of 55,000 Russian troops "to attack whomsoever Britannic Majesty bids".
- 1765 - Birth of José María Morelos y Pavón; fought in Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1777 - US Congress flees to York, Pennsylvania, as British forces advance.
- 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premieres at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
- 1857 - US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, south of Hawaii.
- 1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession.
- 1870 - Birth of Jean Perrin in France; physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel Prize 1926).
- 1877 - First US amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club).
- 1880 - Henry Draper takes first photograph of the Orion Nebula.
- 1885 - Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate.
- 1887 - Sailing ship Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup.
- 1895 - France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar.
- 1898 - City of New York is established.
- 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
- 1908 - Birth of David Oistrakh in Odessa, Russia; violinist/professor (Moscow Conservatory).
- 1912 - Birth of Kenny Baker; radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back).
- 1915 - Birth of Lester Garfield Maddox; American politician (Governor-Democrat-Georgia), restaurant owner.
- 1916 - New York Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak.
- 1917 - Birth of Chung Hee Park; general/president of South Korea (1961-79), assassinated.
- 1917 - Birth of Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov in USSR; director (Taganka).
- 1919 - Birth of Patricia Neway in Brooklyn, New York, USA; soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia).
- 1921 - Birth of Deborah Kerr in Helensburg, Scotland; actress (King and I, Night of the Iguana).
- 1922 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #2.
- 1924 - Birth of Truman Capote; short story writer (In Cold Blood) (dies 1984).
- 1926 - Birth of Robin Roberts; Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952).
- 1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th home run in a single Major League Baseball season (off Tom Zachary).
- 1928 - Birth of Elie Wiesel; author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel Prize 1986).
- 1928 - Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 miles 604 yards in one hour.
- 1929 - First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel).
- 1931 - Birth of Angie Dickinson in Kulm, North Dakota, USA; American actress (Police Woman).
- 1932 - Birth of Ben Cooper in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Johnny Guitar, Rose Tattoo).
- 1933 - USSR launches SSSR balloon (with 860,000 cubic-foot capacity) with 3-man aluminum gondola; it reaches a record 60,695 feet (19 km), landing safely.
- 1934 - Birth of Freddie King in Gilmer, Texas, USA; blues singer ("Hideaway").
- 1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam.
- 1935 - Birth of Jill Corey in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, USA; singer (Your Hit Parade).
- 1935 - Birth of Johnny Mathis; singer ("Chances Are", "12th of Never").
- 1936 - Birth of Jim Sasser; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Tennessee).
- 1936 - International Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends.
- 1938 - Birth of Salvatore Michael Caruana in Massachusetts, USA; criminal (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1938 - (shortly after 0100 hours) The Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia, is signed, by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Édouard Daladier, Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
- 1938 - In Munich, Germany, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler sign a document noting the desire of the two peoples to never go to war with another again, and resolve to consult each other on issues of concern, and to contribute to peace in Europe.
- 1939 - First televised college football game (Fordham versus Waynesburg at New York City).
- 1939 - Birth of Len Cariou; actor (Four Seasons).
- 1939 - Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland.
- 1941 - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine.
- 1941 - Operation Typhoon begins, an attack by German forces on Moscow. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock commands 70 divisions of Army Group Center with Günther Von Kluge's 4th Army and Strauss' 9th Army.
- 1942 - Birth of Frankie Lymon in New York City, New York, USA; rocker (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - "Why do Fools Fall in Love").
- 1942 - Birth of Sture Pettersson in Sweden; cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968).
- 1943 - Birth of Jody Powell; press secretary to US President Jimmy Carter.
- 1943 - Birth of Marilyn McCoo in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension).
- 1944 - Calais, France, reoccupied by Allies.
- 1945 - Hank Greenberg's final day home run wins the pennant for the Detroit Tigers.
- 1947 - Birth of Marc Bolan in London, England; rocker (T-Rex - "Bang a Gong").
- 1947 - New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 in front of largest World Series crowd: 73,365; also first World Series game televised.
- 1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights.
- 1950 - First congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris, France.
- 1950 - Birth of Victoria Tennant in London, England; actress (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War).
- 1951 - NBC premieres The Red Skelton Show 30-minute variety TV show.
- 1951 - Birth of Catie Ball; American 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968).
- 1953 - Birth of Deborah Allen in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Jim Stafford Show).
- 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1954 - Birth of Barry Williams in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Greg - The Brady Bunch).
- 1954 - Birth of Calvin Levels in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Knightwatch).
- 1955 - James Dean is killed in an auto collision at age 24 near Cholame, California.
- 1956 - Philadelphia Phillies' player Robin Roberts gives up a Major League Baseball record 46th home run.
- 1957 - Birth of William Christian in Washington, DC, USA; actor (Derek - All My Children).
- 1958 - ABC-TV airs the first episode of TV show The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors.
- 1958 - Birth of Christopher Cass in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA; actor (Jack Forbes - Loving).
- 1958 - ABC premieres the Naked City 30-minute crime drama TV show.
- 1958 - CBC TV debuts The Friendly Giant 15-minute TV series in Canada.
- 1959 - Birth of Basia Trzetrzelevska in Poland; jazz singer (Time and Life).
- 1959 - Birth of Debrah Farentino; actress (Hooperman, Equal Justice).
- 1959 - John H Kliegl, developer of the Klieg light, dies at age 89.
- 1960 - ABC premieres the first prime time cartoon show: The Flinstones.
- 1960 - NBC airs Howdy Doody's last TV show, in which Clarabelle finally talks: "Goodbye Kids".
- 1961 - Birth of Crystal Bernard in Dallas, Texas, USA; actress (Amy - It's a Living, Wings).
- 1961 - Southern Cameroons joins Cameroun Federal Republic.
- 1962 - Birth of Dave Magadan; first baseman (New York Mets).
- 1962 - ABC begins rebroadcasting the Father Knows Best TV show.
- 1963 - CBS premieres the East Side / West Side 60-minute drama TV show.
- 1966 - Bechuanaland Protectorate becomes independent republic of Botswana.
- 1967 - BBC starts their own popular music radio station.
- 1967 - USSR's Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 complete the first automatic docking.
- 1968 - First Boeing 747 jet airliner rolls out.
- 1969 - With a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds, the Atlanta Braves clinch the first ever National League West division.
- 1970 - A fire at the Smithsonian Institution damages portions of the Hall of Monetary History and Medallic Art.
- 1970 - In the Philippine Islands, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurs.
- 1971 - Last Washington Senators' home game, New York Yankees win career 5th forfeit; New York Yankees trailing 4-2 in the 9th with two outs, fans rush the field.
- 1972 - Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie, South Africa).
- 1973 - New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5.
- 1975 - Five drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls, New York).
- 1976 - Death of Mary Ford AKA Colleen Summers at age 52 of complications from diabetes; American singer ("How High the Moon", "Vaya Con Dios", "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise").
- 1977 - Birth of Maia Brewton in Los Angeles, California; actress (Margaret - Lime Street).
- 1978 - Death of Edgar Bergen at age 75, American actor and ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) (born 1903).
- 1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants first six franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
- 1978 - Philadelphia Phillies win third consecutive National League East Division title.
- 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).
- 1980 - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
- 1980 - 1,754 turn out to see the Philadelphia Phillies play the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
- 1980 - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
- 1981 - Birth of Dominique Moceanu; American gymnast.
- 1981 - Birth of Cecelia Ahern, daughter of Bertie Ahern Taoiseach; Irish author.
- 1981 - Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics.
- 1983 - Freddy Martin, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin TV show), dies at age 76.
- 1983 - William D Elliot, actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at age 49.
- 1984 - Birth of Megan Ewing, American model.
- 1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner.
- 1984 - California Angels' Mike Witt pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0.
- 1984 - A brillian fireball is seen crossing the sky over Toodyay and Pinjarrua on coast of Western Australia, with two loud bangs heard over Perth. A black stone meteorite the size of a large potato falls into the sand by a couple on the beach at Binningup.
- 1984 - New York Yankees' Don Mattingly wins American League batting crown with .343 average.
- 1985 - Death of Herbert Bayer, American advertising designer, in Montecito, California (born in Haag, Austria).
- 1986 - US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov.
- 1988 - IBM announces shipment of three millionth PS/2 personal computer.
- 1988 - Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at age 86.
- 1988 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings.
- 1988 - American Louise Ritter jumps 6 feet 8 inches to win the Olympic gold medal.
- 1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension.
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with one out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year.
- 1989 - The animated TV show Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers first airs on TV. The first show is the two-hour Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers to the Rescue.
- 1989 - Death of Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist (born 1889).
- 1990 - Death of Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912).
- 1991 - Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted.
- 1991 - A twister destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.
- 1992 - The ABC TV network debuts the series Laurie Hill.
- 1993 - In Southern India, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. Nearly 10,000 people killed, about 30,000 injured and extreme devastation in the Latur-Osmanabad area. Nearly all buildings destroyed in the village of Khillari. Felt in large parts of central and southern India. This earthquake is the largest known earthquake to occur in the area.
- 1994 - Death of Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1902).
- 1997 - Death of Al 'Jazzbo' Collins of pancreatic cancer at age 78; radio personality (created the Purple Grotto program on WNEW New York, talk shows at KGO San Francisco).
- 1999 - In Oaxaca, Mexico, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. At least 35 people killed, 215 injured, thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed, utilities disrupted and roads blocked by landslides.
- 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes, with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in Article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
- 2005 - Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- 2005 - Michael Eisner resigns from The Walt Disney Company board of directors, also his last day as CEO of the company. The value of the company during Eisner's term (1984-2005) rose from US$3 billion to US$60 billion. New company CEO is Robert Iger.
- 2006 - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koisumi resigns office.
- 2006 - West Coast Eagles win the Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 2007 - Parliamentary re-elections occur in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismisses Parliament. Viktor Yanukovich's party wins most votes, with Yulia Tymoshenko's party then winning 31 percent.
- 2007 - General elections in Ecuador: Acuerdo País party wins a majority, with leader Rafael Correa.
- 2007 - Death of Milan Jelic, Bosnian-Serb politician (born 1956).
- 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounds by 485.21 points (4.68 percent), the third largest one-day point gain.
- 2008 - A Jodhpur temple stampede in western India kills over 224 people, and injures 400.
- 2009 - A powerful Typhoon Ketsana sweeps through Vietnam, killing 40 people.
- 2009 - Ex-Peruvian President (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to six years in jail for corruption by a court in Lima, Peru.
- 2009 - A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Padang, Indonesia, a city of 900,000, killing over 1000, toppling buildings and trapping thousands under debris.
- 2009 - The US budget deficit hits a record US$1.4 trillion in the year to the end of September.
- 2011 - Death of Ralph Steinman at age 68 of pancreatic cancer (2011 Nobel Prize for medicine).
- 2011 - The US CIA kills Islamist militant Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in a drone strike.
- 2015 - Russia begins air strikes against ISIL and anti-government forces in Syria, in support of the Syrian government.
- 2016 - Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh with a combined value of US$100 million, "Seascape at Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen", are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
- 2017 - Death of Monty Hall, Canadian-American television host (born 1921).
- 2020 - Death of Ali Bozer, Acting Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925).
- 2022 - Military coup in Burkina Faso, led by army captain Ibrahim Traoré.
- 2022 - Russia annexes the former Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.
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