September 30 Historical Events

The following events took place on September 30. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 489
  Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
• 737
  Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
• 1399
  Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1541
  Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
• 1744
  France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 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.
• 1791
  The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
• 1813
  Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
• 1860
  Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
• 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.
• 1888
  Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• 1895
  Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1903
  The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 1906
  The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
• 1907
  McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

• 1915
  A Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
• 1927
  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1931
  Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• 1935
  The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
• 1938
  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”.
• 1939
  General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1939
  NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34–7.
• 1941
  World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
• 1943
  The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1945
  The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
• 1947
  Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
• 1947
  The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
• 1949
  The Berlin Airlift ends.
• 1954
  The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.