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Today in History ~ September 30
Events0199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates throne to Henry Bolingbroke who was proclaimed King Henry IV. Henry had returned unopposed from a one-year exile, and seized the throne with the support of England's nobility. [H]
1452 - The first section of the Johannes Guttenberg's Bible, the first book printed from movable type, was published in Germany.
1520 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as sultan of Turkey
1555 - Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1630 - John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to arrive at the American colonies, was hanged for murder.
1659 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
1659 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1777 - Congress flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1791 - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
1805 - Napoleon's army enters the Rhine valley
1841 - Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
1846 - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time -- Dr. Wm Morton, a dentist in Charleston, Massachusetts, extracted a tooth with the aid of ether.
1864 - Battle of Preble's Farm VA (Poplar Springs Church)
1864 - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
1880 - Henry Draper takes 1st photograph of Orion Nebula
1888 - "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes
1889 - Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote. [H]
1898 - City of NY established -- with five borroughs
1924 - Allies stop checking on German navy
1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1930 - "Death Valley Days" became one of radio's biggest hits.
1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston
1935: "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" came to radio for the first time.
1936 - Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
1938 - Germany, France, Britain and Italy met in Munich, Germany, for a conference...after which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain predicted "we have peace for our time." Czechoslovakia forced to cede territory to Germany. World War II began less than one year later. [H]
1939 - Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
1940 - 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 - 3,721 Jews are buried -- some still alive -- at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1941 - German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
1942 - Adm Nimitz' B-17 finds Guadalcanal by consulting National Geographic map
1942 - SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
1944 - Calais reoccupied by Allies
1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death
1949 - Berlin Airlift, a massive campaign by Britain and the US to keep West Berlin supplied against a Soviet blockade, ends after 278,288 flights and delivery of 2,326,406 tons of supplies.
1950 - Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time
1953 - Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record)
1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1953 - Robert Anderson's "Tea & Sympathy," premieres in NYC
1954 - "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances
1954 - Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (the world's first nuclear submarine) is commissioned by the Navy
1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)
1960 - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
1961 - Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
1962 - James H. Meredith, an African American, was escorted on to the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. Marshals,
1966 - Botswana achieved its independence.
1968 - 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1969 - Nazi war criminals Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences.
1975 - 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
1977 - President Carter proclaimed October to be Country Music Month.
1980 - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1986 - US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1988 - Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1991 - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti in a military coup Aristide was restored to power three years later during President Clinton's "Operation Uphold Democracy."
1992 - Congress approves a bill requiring the release of nearly all government files concerning the assassination of President Kennedy.
1992 - Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
1992 - The United States returned most of the Subic Bay Naval Base to the Philippine government after more than a century of use.
1993 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1993 - General Colin Powell retires at 56
1993 - MS Dos 6.2 released
1993 - US Treasury Department issued a report sharply criticizing top officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for their handling of the February raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
1997 - Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits
1997 - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1999 - An accident at a nuclear power plant 70 miles north-east of Tokyo released high levels of radiation in Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident.
1999 - Russia sent troops into the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
2001 - Between 9-11-2001 and 10-1-2001, about 500 people in the U.S. and elsewhere had been arrested or detained in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Birthdays Today
1715 - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism/Cours d'etudes)
1852 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer
1861 - William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum tycoon)
1898 - Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (confidant of Heinrich Himmler)
1904 - Johnny Allen (baseball)
1908 - David Oistrakh, Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
1915 - Lester Garfield Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner/ax handle wielder segregationist
1921 - Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) (actress: The King and I, From Here to Eternity, A Woman of Substance, The Night of the Iguana, Quo Vadis, Tea and Sympathy, Separate Tables)
1922 - Oscar Pettiford (musician: bass, cello; played with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Getz)
1924 - Truman Capote (Persons) (writer: In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
1926 - Robin Roberts (Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher: won 286 games in 19 seasons; 1950 World Series; Sporting News National League Player of the Year [1952, 1955])
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire) (Nobel 1986)
1931 - Angie Dickinson (Brown) (Police Woman, Cassie and Company, Wild Palms, Dressed to Kill, Rio Bravo, Ocean's 11; Hollywood's Best Legs Award [1962])
1932 - Johnny Podres (baseball: Brooklyn/LA Dodgers)
1935 - Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza) (singer: Love Me to Pieces)
1935 - Johnny Mathis (singer: Wonderful, Wonderful, It's Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty, The Twelfth of Never, A Certain Smile, Small World, Gina, What Will Mary Say, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late [w/Deniece Williams], Friends In Love [w/Dionne Warwick])
1942 - Frankie Lymon (singer: recorded at age 14: Why Do Fools Fall in Love?)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo (Davis) (singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away; Aquarius; solo: One Less Bell to Answer, You Don't Have to be a Star [w/husband, Billy Davis, Jr.]; TV hostess: Solid Gold [1981-1984, 1986-88]; TV music reporter: Preview)
1944 - Jody Powell (journalist; Press Secretary to U.S. President Jimmy Carter)
1944 - Red (Austin) Robbins (basketball)
1948 - Andy Maurer (football: guard, tackle: Minnesota Vikings: Super Bowl IX, Denver Broncos: Super Bowl XII)
1951 - Catie (Catherine) Ball (swimmer)
1953 - Deborah Allen (Thurmond) (singer: Baby I Lied, Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me [w/Jim Reeves]; songwriter: Don't Worry 'Bout Me)
1953 - Victoria Tennant (actress: Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance)
1954 - Barry Williams (Blenkhorn) (actor: The Brady Bunch, A Very Brady Christmas)
1954 - Mickey Klutts (baseball)
1964 - Crystal Bernard (actress: Wings, It's a Living, Happy Days, As Good as Dead, Slumber Party Massacre 2)
1964 - Ingrid Thais, New York, historical/genealogical researcher
Famous deaths
1572 - Francisco Borgia, Jesuit theologian/saint, dies at 61
1630 - John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged. He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. Billington's was convicted by a jury of fatally shooting another colonist John Newcomin following a quarrel.
1755 - Francesco Durante, composer, dies at 71
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1955 - James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in car crash at 24
1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1985 - Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64
1988 - Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
1989 - Virgil Thomson, US composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92
1994 - Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69
1997 - Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
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