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 274th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 17, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,727,654,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectaheptacontatetragon’ day.
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 121 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 4,301 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 30 Historical Events
- 1888 –Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- 1906 –The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- 1935 –The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1938 –The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 1949 –The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 1954 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 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.
- 1982 –Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
- 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.
- 2004 –The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
Who were born on September 30?
- 1905 –Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1940 –Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and professor
- 1946 –Jochen Mass, German race car driver
- 1960 –Julia Adamson, composer/musician
- 1960 –Miki Howard, American singer and actress
- 1969 –Mark Smith, English body builder
- 1974 –Eli Cottonwood, American professional wrestler and former basketball player.
- 1975 –Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1978 –Róbinson Zapata, Colombian footballer
- 1986 –Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
Who died on September 30?
- 1101 –Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
- 1487 –John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
- 1581 –Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
- 1891 –Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
- 1910 –Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
- 1941 –Alice de Janzé, American heiress (b. 1899)
- 1990 –Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
- 1995 –Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1924)
- 1998 –Marius Goring, British Actor (b. 1912)
- 2003 –Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
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