About September 30
September 30, 2024 is the 274th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 30
- 1399 –Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1744 –France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
- 1791 –The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
- 1813 –Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1860 –Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- 1882 –Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
- 1907 –McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1935 –The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1938 –The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 1939 –General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1941 –World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- 1947 –The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1954 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1968 –The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- 1975 –The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- 1977 –Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1980 –Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 1994 –Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
- 1999 –Japan’s second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- 2004 –The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
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