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
- 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.
- 1938 –The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 1947 –The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
- 1962 –James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 1967 –BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
- 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.
- 1975 –The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- 1977 –Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1994 –Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
Who were born on September 30?
- 1882 –Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
- 1898 –Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
- 1917 –Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)
- 1971 –Jenna Elfman, American actress
- 1974 –Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
- 1977 –Maia Brewton, American actress
- 1978 –Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
- 1981 –Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
- 1982 –Tory Lane, American nude model and pornographic actress
- 1986 –Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
Who died on September 30?
- 420 –Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
- 1770 –Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
- 1772 –James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
- 1990 –Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
- 1990 –Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1990 –Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (b. 1968)
- 2002 –Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
- 2004 –Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b. 1935)
- 2010 –Aaron-Carl Ragland, American electronic dance musician (b. 1973)
- 2011 –Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)
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