Tukuk-OS📅 September 30
20 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on September 30? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
Martín VizcarraCongress of the Republic of Peru2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis
- 2009 — A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia (damage pictured), killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
- 2005 — The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
Jyllands-PostenJyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversyMuhammad
- 2000 — Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.
Killing of Muhammad al-DurrahGaza StripIsrael Defense Forces
- 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.
- 1982 — Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
- 1975 — The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
- 1955 — American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
- 1939 — NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
NBC1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football gameFordham Rams football
- 1939 — Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
- 1938 — Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
- 1920 — Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
- 1918 — Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
Nestor MakhnoFedir ShchusRevolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
- 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.
- 1863 — Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
- 1791 — Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe Magic FluteTheater auf der Wieden
- 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.
- 1342 — An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1139 — A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
- 737 — Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
Births
- 2003 — Alberto Moleiro, Spanish footballer
- 2002 — Levi Miller, Australian actor and model
- 2002 — Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress
- 1998 — Landon Dickerson, American football player
- 1998 — Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality
- 1998 — Trevi Moran, American YouTuber and singer
- 1997 — Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast
- 1997 — Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver
- 1996 — Aaron Holiday, American basketball player
- 1994 — Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast
- 1992 — Bria Hartley, French-American basketball player
- 1992 — Ezra Miller, American actor and singer
Deaths
- 2026 — Esther Rantzen, English journalist and television presenter (born 1940)
- 2024 — Gavin Creel, American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1976)
- 2024 — Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player (born 1966)
- 2024 — Humberto Ortega, Nicaraguan military leader (born 1947)
- 2024 — Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (born 1954)
- 2024 — Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
- 2021 — Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (born 1931)
- 2019 — Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (born 1967)
- 2018 — Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (born 1945)
- 2018 — Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (born 1942)
- 2018 — Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925)
- 2017 — Monty Hall, American game show host (born 1921)
Observances & holidays
- Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Public holidays in São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé and Príncipe
- Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
- Boy's Day (Poland)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Federico Albert
- Christian feast day: Gregory the Illuminator
- Christian feast day: Honorius of Canterbury
- Christian feast day: Jerome
- Christian feast day: September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
Independence Day (Botswana)Public holidays in BotswanaBotswana
- International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
International Translation DayInternational Federation of Translators
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt Day (Canada)
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