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Events on the 30th of September in history

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30 Sep 0489 Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
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30 Sep 0737 Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
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30 Sep 1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
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30 Sep 1399 King Richard II of England abdicates throne
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30 Sep 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
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30 Sep 1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
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30 Sep 1541 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
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30 Sep 1544 King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
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30 Sep 1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
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30 Sep 1619 Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
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30 Sep 1630 1st execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
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30 Sep 1649 Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
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30 Sep 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
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30 Sep 1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
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30 Sep 1681 Netherlands and Sweden sign treaty
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30 Sep 1730 Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns
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30 Sep 1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
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30 Sep 1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
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30 Sep 1787 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
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30 Sep 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.
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30 Sep 1791 The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
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30 Sep 1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
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30 Sep 1805 Napoleons army draws into the Rhine
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30 Sep 1808 Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
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30 Sep 1813 Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
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30 Sep 1818 Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and England
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30 Sep 1841 Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
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30 Sep 1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
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30 Sep 1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
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30 Sep 1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
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30 Sep 1862 Battle of Newtonia, Mississippi
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30 Sep 1864 Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
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30 Sep 1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
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30 Sep 1877 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
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30 Sep 1878 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
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30 Sep 1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
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30 Sep 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.
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30 Sep 1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
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30 Sep 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG)
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30 Sep 1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)
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30 Sep 1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
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30 Sep 1888 "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes
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30 Sep 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
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30 Sep 1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
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30 Sep 1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
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30 Sep 1898 City of New York established
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30 Sep 1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
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30 Sep 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
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30 Sep 1906 The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
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30 Sep 1907 Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice and Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs. Boston)
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30 Sep 1907 McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
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30 Sep 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
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30 Sep 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
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30 Sep 1920 Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St, New York City
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30 Sep 1922 Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece
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30 Sep 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
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30 Sep 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2
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30 Sep 1923 Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season
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30 Sep 1924 Allies stop checking on German navy
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30 Sep 1926 German / French / Belgian / Luxembourg steel cartel closes
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30 Sep 1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
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30 Sep 1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
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30 Sep 1928 Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin)
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30 Sep 1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
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30 Sep 1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
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30 Sep 1931 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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30 Sep 1933 Berlin / Hart / Heyman / Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer, " premieres in New York City
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30 Sep 1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
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30 Sep 1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
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30 Sep 1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
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30 Sep 1935 Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
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30 Sep 1936 International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
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30 Sep 1936 Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
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30 Sep 1937 6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport and Ainsdale, England
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30 Sep 1938 British Premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich
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30 Sep 1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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30 Sep 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
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30 Sep 1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
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30 Sep 1939 White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance
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30 Sep 1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
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30 Sep 1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
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30 Sep 1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
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30 Sep 1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
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30 Sep 1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
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30 Sep 1941 German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
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30 Sep 1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
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30 Sep 1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
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30 Sep 1942 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)
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30 Sep 1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
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30 Sep 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit
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30 Sep 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
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30 Sep 1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
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30 Sep 1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
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30 Sep 1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
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30 Sep 1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
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30 Sep 1947 Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
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30 Sep 1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
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30 Sep 1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised
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30 Sep 1949 Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR and NL record 16th in September
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30 Sep 1949 The Berlin Airlift ends.
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30 Sep 1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
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30 Sep 1950 1st Congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
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30 Sep 1950 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1953 Auguste / Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record)
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30 Sep 1953 Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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30 Sep 1953 WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1953 WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins
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30 Sep 1954 "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances
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30 Sep 1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy
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30 Sep 1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
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30 Sep 1954 1st atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
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30 Sep 1955 Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
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30 Sep 1956 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
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30 Sep 1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
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30 Sep 1957 French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria
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30 Sep 1957 WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1960 West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
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30 Sep 1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
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30 Sep 1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
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30 Sep 1961 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
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30 Sep 1962 JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
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30 Sep 1962 KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1962 KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
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30 Sep 1962 New York Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat New York 5-1
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30 Sep 1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
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30 Sep 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
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30 Sep 1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
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30 Sep 1963 "Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 16 performances
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30 Sep 1963 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office
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30 Sep 1964 "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 performances
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30 Sep 1965 LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts
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30 Sep 1965 The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
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30 Sep 1965 The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
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30 Sep 1965 Trapped in the Sky, the pilot episode of Gerry Anderson's beloved Thunderbirds, airs on ITV for the first time.
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30 Sep 1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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30 Sep 1966 The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
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30 Sep 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 its first show.
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30 Sep 1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
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30 Sep 1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
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30 Sep 1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
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30 Sep 1968 AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
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30 Sep 1968 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
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30 Sep 1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
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30 Sep 1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
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30 Sep 1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
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30 Sep 1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
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30 Sep 1970 New American Bible published
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30 Sep 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.
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30 Sep 1971 Last Washingston Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
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30 Sep 1972 Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits
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30 Sep 1972 Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
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30 Sep 1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
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30 Sep 1973 4th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54
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30 Sep 1973 Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
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30 Sep 1973 Resigns as manager
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30 Sep 1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open
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30 Sep 1973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk
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30 Sep 1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
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30 Sep 1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
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30 Sep 1977 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
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30 Sep 1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
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30 Sep 1977 Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
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30 Sep 1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
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30 Sep 1978 Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
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30 Sep 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
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30 Sep 1978 Phillies clinch NL East title
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30 Sep 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
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30 Sep 1979 Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
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30 Sep 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
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30 Sep 1979 The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
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30 Sep 1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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30 Sep 1980 1,754 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
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30 Sep 1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
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30 Sep 1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
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30 Sep 1982 National railroad strike in Belgium
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30 Sep 1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
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30 Sep 1984 Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), Kansas City wins 10-6
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30 Sep 1984 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
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30 Sep 1984 New York Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 average
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30 Sep 1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
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30 Sep 1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
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30 Sep 1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
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30 Sep 1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
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30 Sep 1987 Suriname constitution ratified
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30 Sep 1988 Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th
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30 Sep 1988 Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
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30 Sep 1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires
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30 Sep 1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
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30 Sep 1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
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30 Sep 1988 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show
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30 Sep 1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
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30 Sep 1989 Senegambia separates back into Gambia and Senegal
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30 Sep 1989 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
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30 Sep 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
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30 Sep 1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
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30 Sep 1990 Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park
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30 Sep 1990 Pittsburgh Pirates wins NL East title
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30 Sep 1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
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30 Sep 1991 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as President of Haiti
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30 Sep 1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
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30 Sep 1992 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins
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30 Sep 1992 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
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30 Sep 1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
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30 Sep 1993 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
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30 Sep 1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56
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30 Sep 1993 MS Dos 6.2 released
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30 Sep 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.
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30 Sep 1994 NHL goes on strike
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30 Sep 1994 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
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30 Sep 1994 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected President of Burundi
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30 Sep 1994 Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election
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30 Sep 1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
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30 Sep 1994 Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
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30 Sep 1995 Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season
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30 Sep 1996 The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bans the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
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30 Sep 1997 Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits
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30 Sep 1999 Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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30 Sep 2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
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30 Sep 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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30 Sep 2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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30 Sep 2009 The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
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