About September 30
September 30, 2020 is the 274th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 135 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.
- 1813 –Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1895 –Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 1907 –McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1947 –The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1955 –Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- 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.
- 1968 –The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- 1972 –Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
- 1975 –The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- 1982 –Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
- 1986 –Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
- 1994 –Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
- 1994 –Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
- 2004 –The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
- 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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