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- 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1452 First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
- 1630 First execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
- 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services
- 1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
- 1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
- 1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
- 1781 American War of Independence: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
- 1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
- 1791 The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
- 1809 The Treaty of Fort Wayne negotiated by Gen William Henry Harrison obtains 3 million acres of Indiana Territory Indian land on the Wabash River for the United States
- 1813 Battle of Brbula: Simn Bolvar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1813 Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1846 Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
- 1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
- 1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- 1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
- 1877 First US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
- 1878 First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
- 1880 Henry Draper takes that first photograph of the Orion Nebula
- 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 becomes a British protectorate
- 1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
- 1888 Visitor posting - 'Jack the Ripper' 2 victims; Elizabeth Stead & Catherine Edows - United Kingdom
- 1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
- 1903 New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
- 1906 Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
- 1918 Lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service
- 1918 Prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France
- 1929 First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
- 1931 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- 1935 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers in Boston
- 1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1936 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends
- 1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
- 1939 Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
- 1939 First televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
- 1939 General Wadysaw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1939 General Wladyslaw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1939 Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland
- 1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
- 1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
- 1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
- 1947 The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
- 1947 The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
- 1949 Visitor posting - Stan Was born
- 1950 First congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
- 1954 First atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
- 1954 Visitor posting - Arthur D. Bennett born - USA
- 1955 Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident, at age 24.
- 1955 Visitor posting - Robert Brown was born in Louisville, KY - USA
- 1958 Visitor posting - Mikey D. is born to Gloria and Gus in Hawaii
- 1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
- 1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
- 1960 The Flintstones made their debut on primetime.
- 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
- 1962 Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
- 1962 Mexican-American labor leader Csar Chvez founds the United Farm Workers.
- 1965 General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million of Indonesian suspected as communists.
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Ken Dodd - Tears
- 1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
- 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 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
- 1967 Visitor posting - The Legend Kev Price Hero to All was Born - United Kingdom
- 1967 Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
- 1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 and 188 complete the first automatic docking
- 1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out
- 1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
- 1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
- 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - David Cassidy - How Can I Be Sure
- 1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
- 1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
- 1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- 1975 Thrilla in Manila takes place between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
- 1975 Visitor posting - Sept 30, 1975, Quinton Adams is born.
- 1977 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
- 1977 Visitor posting - Marnie Christine Martinez is born in a vehicle somewhere between Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA. - USA
- 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - Summer Nights
- 1979 The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- 1980 Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
- 1980 Visitor posting - Suji was born
- 1981 Visitor posting - Jessica's birthday
- 1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
- 1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
- 1985 Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM
- 1985 Visitor posting - Jordan Blaine Wright was born, the most beautiful woman in the world - USA
- 1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
- 1986 Visitor posting - Haley Kathleen Johnson was born !!!! - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - September 30 1987 Erin is born
- 1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires
- 1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
- 1989 Visitor posting - Doug Roman weds Lisa Soldatis - USA
- 1989 Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
- 1989 NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week. The Toronto Blue Jays would clinch the American League Eastern divisional title against the Baltimore Orioles.
- 1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
- 1991 President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
- 1992 Visitor posting - My twin sister was born. Which means... ME TOO! - USA
- 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.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Sept 30 1995 Ashley is born - Iowa, USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - September 30, 1995 Jasmine was born - USA
- 1998 Visitor posting - Zoey Hickman born. - USA
- 1999 Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- 1999 Visitor posting - September 30, 1999 Charles Edward Johnson IV is born at Magee in Pittsburgh, PA
- 2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
- 2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are 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.
- 2006 the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
- 2008 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Fitr: September 30, 2008
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