About September 30
September 30, 2025 is the 273rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 140 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 30
- 1399 –Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1791 –The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
- 1791 –The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
- 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.
- 1903 –The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
- 1935 –The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1939 –General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1947 –The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1949 –The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 1962 –James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 1962 –Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
- 1965 –The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
- 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 Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
- 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.
- 2005 –The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- 2009 –The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
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