What are the important events that happened on September 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 17, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,664 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontatrigon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac 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 140 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,666 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 30 Historical Events
- 1399 –Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1895 –Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 1907 –McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1947 –The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
- 1949 –The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 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.
- 1977 –Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1979 –The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- 1999 –Japan’s second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- 2009 –The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
Who were born on September 30?
- 1530 –Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
- 1906 –Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996)
- 1913 –Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
- 1933 –Cissy Houston, American gospel singer
- 1940 –Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and professor
- 1965 –Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
- 1977 –Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
- 1983 –Adam Jones, American football player
- 1986 –Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
- 1986 –Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player
Who died on September 30?
- 1560 –Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
- 1581 –Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
- 1770 –George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
- 1897 –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
- 1910 –Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
- 1943 –Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1985 –Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
- 1990 –Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
- 2004 –Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
- 2008 –Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean politician, former Secretary-General of Workers’ Party of Singapore (b. 1926)
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