SomeFacts | September 30

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 ...