September 30

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September.

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
1867 - United States takes control of Midway Island.
1882 - The world's first hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company ) began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
1947 - World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 - The submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
1961 - Mayor Snyder of Oregon writes a check for $1.96 to cover the cost of the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party.
1962 - César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 - Civil unrest followed a failed c'oup 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.
1967 - Launch of BBC Radio 1; other national BBC radio stations also adopt numeric names.
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 popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
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.
1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.