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SEPTEMBER 30, 1139
A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
The 1139 Ganja earthquake was one of the worst seismic events in history. It affected the Seljuk Empire and the Kingdom of Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 737
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
Year 737 (DCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 737 for this year has been Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1939
NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1965
Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government that was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
The Thirtieth of September Movement was a self-proclaimed organization of Indonesian National Armed Forces members. In the early hours of 1 October Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 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.
The Vulcan Street Plant was the first Edison hydroelectric central station. The plant was built on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 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.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1920
Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
The Times Square Theater is a former Broadway and movie theater at 215–217 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1791
Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1863
Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1342
An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
The battle of Morlaix was fought near the village of Lanmeur in Brittany on 30 September 1342 between an Anglo-Breton army and Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1975
The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
The Hughes/McDonell Douglas/Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 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.
Sue Harukata was a samurai who served as a senior retainer of the Ōuchi clan in the Sengoku period in Japan. Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1982
Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
Cheers is an American television sitcom, created by Glen Charles & Les Charles and James Burrows, that aired on NBC for 11 Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1918
Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1955
American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
James Byron Dean was an American actor. He became one of the most influential figures in Hollywood in the 1950s, despite a Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw  was defined in a 1979 Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1939
Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all Read More
SEPTEMBER 30, 1938
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He Read More

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