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
- 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”.
- 1860 –Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- 1888 –Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- 1895 –Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 1906 –The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- 1907 –McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1931 –Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- 1938 –At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 –The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 1941 –World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- 1945 –The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
- 1954 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
- 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.
- 1994 –Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
- 2004 –The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
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