September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL MUD PACK DAY
NATIONAL MUD PACK DAY
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1882 – Thomas Alva Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete the Babi Yar massacre.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1972 – The Pittsburgh Pirates' Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career. On December 31, 1972, he died in a plane crash while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. On March 30, 1973, the Baseball Writers' Association of America held a special election for the Baseball Hall of Fame. They voted to waive the waiting period for Clemente, due to the circumstances of his death, and posthumously elected him for induction into the Hall of Fame, giving him 393 out of 420 available votes, for 92% of the vote.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1993 – The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2009 – The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This dip-slip (reverse) earthquake left 1,115 people dead, and was followed several days later by a 6.6 Mw strike-slip event.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This dip-slip (reverse) earthquake left 1,115 people dead, and was followed several days later by a 6.6 Mw strike-slip event.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (d. 1971)
1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (d. 1971)
1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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