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Birthday September 30, 1627 Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe |
Birthday September 30, 1870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) |
Birthday September 30, 1912 Kenny Baker, radio singer |
Birthday September 30, 1915 Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia |
Birthday September 30, 1921 Deborah Kerr, (King & I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland |
Birthday September 30, 1924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer (In Cold Blood) |
Birthday September 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best-selling author, is born |
Birthday September 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) |
Birthday September 30, 1931 Angie Dickinson, in Kulm ND - best looking legs on a Police officer |
Birthday September 30, 1935 Johnny Mathis, singer |
Birthday September 30, 1935 Johnny Mathis is born |
Birthday September 30, 1943 Marilyn McCoo, in Jersey City NJ - Solid Gold host |
History September 30, 1399 Henry IV proclaimed |
History September 30, 1452 1st book published Johann Guttenberg's Bible |
History September 30, 1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) |
History September 30, 1776 Washington blames militia for problems |
History September 30, 1781 siege of Yorktown begins |
History September 30, 1846 William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown |
History September 30, 1864 Battle of Poplar Springs Church (Peeble's Farm) |
History September 30, 1868 First volume of Little Women is published |
History September 30, 1878 1st immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii |
History September 30, 1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula |
History September 30, 1889 Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote |
History September 30, 1898 City of NY established |
History September 30, 1916 Giants lose ending 26 straight winning streak |
History September 30, 1918 Turks abandon Damascus as Allies approach |
History September 30, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson speaks in favor of female suffrage |
History September 30, 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2 |
History September 30, 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season |
History September 30, 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th HR setting the record off Tom Zachary |
History September 30, 1934 Ruth's final game as a Yankee he went 0 for 3 |
History September 30, 1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
History September 30, 1935 Porgy & Bess premiers in Boston |
History September 30, 1938 Munich Pact signed |
History September 30, 1938 Hitler appeased at Munich |
History September 30, 1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany |
History September 30, 1939 1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
History September 30, 1939 1st televised College football game - Fordham vs Waynesburg |
History September 30, 1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies |
History September 30, 1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennent for the Tigers |
History September 30, 1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73 365-1st WS televised |
History September 30, 1949 Berlin Airlift ends |
History September 30, 1955 James Dean dies in car accident |
History September 30, 1955 James Dean dies |
History September 30, 1960 Flintstones premiers |
History September 30, 1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
History September 30, 1962 Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss |
History September 30, 1964 First large scale antiwar demonstration staged at Berkeley |
History September 30, 1966 Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
History September 30, 1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) |
History September 30, 1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking |
History September 30, 1968 Humphrey announces that he would halt the bombing of North Vietnam |
History September 30, 1971 Last Wash Senator home game Yanks win carreer 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs fans rush the field |
History September 30, 1973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5 |
History September 30, 1978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain |
History September 30, 1984 Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 average |
History September 30, 1994 A Texas college student kills his ex-girlfriend |
History September 30, 1999 Radiation released at Japanese plant |
History September 30, 2005 Eisner resigns as Disney CEO |