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 274^th 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, 28,794,240 minutes 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.

September 30 Historical Events

• 1399 –
  Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1895 –
  Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1903 –
  The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 1907 –
  McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
• 1927 –
  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1938 –
  At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
• 1947 –
  The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
• 1986 –
  Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
• 1994 –
  Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.

Who were born on September 30?

• 1905 –
  Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1923 –
  Donald Swann, member of the group Flanders and Swann (d. 1994)
• 1924 –
  Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
• 1931 –
  Angie Dickinson, American actress
• 1944 –
  Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
• 1946 –
  Claude Vorilhon, French UFO advocate
• 1951 –
  Barry Marshall, Australian physician, Nobel laureate
• 1967 –
  Andrea Roth, Candian actress
• 1974 –
  Eli Cottonwood, American professional wrestler and former basketball player.
• 1984 –
  Keisha Buchanan, British singer and songwriter (Sugababes)

Who died on September 30?

• 1101 –
  Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
• 1246 –
  Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
• 1891 –
  Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
• 1961 –
  Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1985 –
  Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
• 1985 –
  Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1990 –
  Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
• 1990 –
  Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1991 –
  Toma Zdravković, Serbian folk singer (b. 1938)
• 2008 –
  Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean politician, former Secretary-General of Workers’ Party of Singapore (b. 1926)