User:Amakuru/Selected anniversaries/September 30
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Botswana (1966); | refimprove section |
| ; Blasphemy Day | unsure if still being observed (see talk page) |
| 1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown. | refimprove section |
| 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The armies of France and Spain won a Pyrrhic victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near Cuneo, Italy. | needs more footnotes |
| 1791 – The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – Seretse Khama became the first president of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Construction of the Kwun Tong line, the first line of Hong Kong's MTR rapid transit system, was completed. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology. | lots of CN tags (12) |
| 2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat. | refimprove section |
Eligible[edit]
- 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribes attacked the Umayyad army's exposed baggage train, which had been sent ahead of the main force, and captured it.
- 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
- 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
- 1955 – American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
- 1965 – Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government, which was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
- 1982 – Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
- 1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
- 2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Muslim world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
- 2009 – A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
- Born/died: | Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Fan Yanguang |d|940| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Decimus Burton |b|1800| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Basia |b|1954| Sonia Orbuch |d|2018
Notes[edit]
- Pilot (The Cosby Show) appears on September 20, so Cheers should not appear in the same year
September 30: Orange Shirt Day in Canada
- 1551 – Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
- 1882 – The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
AH-64 Apache prototype
- 1975 – The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
- 2019 – President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
- Charlotte Wolff (b. 1897)
- Catie Ball (b. 1951)
- Anwar al-Awlaki (d. 2011)
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