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On this day - September 30
489 — The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of ...
737 — The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow ...
1139 — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in ...
1342 — Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War.
1399 — Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1520 — Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1541 — Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter ...
1551 — A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi ...
1736 — The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in ...
1744 — War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat ...
1791 — France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to ...
1791 — The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute ...
1863 — Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres ...
1882 — Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power ...
1888 — Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth ...
1906 — The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's ...
1907 — The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of ...
1909 — The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking ...
1915 — World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in ...
1918 — Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor ...
1935 — The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of ...
1936 — American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New ...
1938 — The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional ...
1938 — Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, ...
1939 — NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1939 — World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime ...
1941 — World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1943 — The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by ...
1944 — World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to ...
1945 — The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
1947 — Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1947 — The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, ...
1949 — The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 — The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the ...
1960 — The Flintstones animated sitcom premieres on ABC television.
1966 — Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the ...
1968 — The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the ...
1970 — Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the ...
1975 — Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on ...
1978 — Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, ...
1980 — Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with ...
1993 — The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a ...
1994 — Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.
1999 — The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two ...
2000 — Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad ...
2005 — Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish ...
2009 — The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016 — Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are ...
2016 — Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it ...