September 30th

September 30 is the 273rd (two hundred and seventy-third) day of the year—the 274th (two hundred and seventy-fourth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days left to end the year.

Events

• 976: In Cordoba, Spain, the Alhakén II caliph died by an angina of chest. His heir Hisham II was still underage, so the Visir Al-Mushafi, Almanzor and his mother Subh formed a governing council.
• 1399: In England, Henry IV is proclaimed king.
• 1520: In the Ottoman Empire, Soliman I is proclaimed sultan.
• 1730: An earthquake in Japan is recorded leaving a balance of 137 000 dead. (See Earthquakes prior to the 20th century).
• 1744: France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 1781: In the framework of the United States War of Independence, the French defeat the British army in the battle of Chesapeake Capes.
• 1791: at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna (Austria) The magic fluteThe last opera composed by Mozart.
• 1791: In Paris the National Constituent Assembly is dissolved and the Parisians imprison Maximilien Robespierre and Jerôme Petión.
• 1813: in the battle of Bárbula (Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela), the realistic forces of Domingo de Monteverde are defeated by the republican army commanded by Rafael Urdaneta, Luciano D' Elhuyar and Atanasio Girardot, who dies in that battle.
• 1860: in the village of Puntarenas (Costa Rica) the former president and liberator of the Republic, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, is shot.
• 1862: In the civil war of the United States, the confederates defeat in the second battle of Bull Run.
• 1873: founding of the Almirante Brown Party, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1882: In Appleton, Wisconsin, the United States launches operations the first hydroelectric plant in history. It was built by H. F. Rogers on the Fox River
• 1885: first published The mines of King Solomon of the British writer of adventures and fables, Henry Rider Haggard.
• 1888: In London (England), Jack the Ripper kills Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes (its third and fourth victim).
• 1895: in Africa, France invades Madagascar and makes it protective.
• 1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
• 1906: The Royal Galega Academy was founded in La Coruña (Galicia, Spain).
• 1907: Chile creates the Malleco National Reserve, one of the first protected wild areas in Latin America. In 1903, Argentina (at the initiative of the expert Francisco P. Moreno) had created the Sud National Park.

A news published in a newspaper during the Elaine massacre: "Black people plan to kill all white people. The massacre was planned to begin with the murder of 21 prominent men as first victims."

• 1915: Last publication of La Gazette, French newspaper founded on 30 May 1631
• 1919: in the village of Elaine (state of Arkansas) the Elaine Matanza happens: 5 whites die and 100 to 200 blacks.
• 1938: The League of Nations condemns the intentional bombing of civilians.
• 1939: In France—in the framework of World War II—general Wladysław Sikorski forms a Polish government in exile.
• 1939: Britain makes its first civilian evacuation drills.
• 1941: In Babi Yar, a ravine located on the outskirts of Kiev, the Nazis perpetrate the massacre of 33 771 Jews between 29 and 30 September.
• 1947: Pakistan enters the United Nations Organization.
• 1960: In Argentina, the fifth national population census is carried out, the result of which is 20,088,945 inhabitants.
• 1960: in the United States, the animated series The Picapiedra they make their debut in the primetime.
• 1961: in Agramonte (in the Cuban province of Matanzas), the band of elevations led by Evaristo Boitel Beruvides—in the framework of the attacks organized by the CIA—attack the Union de Fernández estate, where they murder the worker Francisco Rodríguez Hernández and wound Felipe Alfonso Pérez, a neighbor to the place.
• 1965: General Suharto is overthrown by the Communist Party of Indonesia and as a reprisal, kills more than a million Indonesian communists.
• 1966: Botswana is independent of the British Empire.
• 1967: in London (England), BBC Radio 1 makes its first broadcasts.
• 1970: A new National Population Census is made in Argentina, totalling 23,364,431 inhabitants.
• 1974: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Chilean DINA murders Carlos Prats, who was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army during the Salvador Allende government.
• 1977: In the United States, Apollo has to be cancelled due to financial problems.
• 1986: In Rome, Italy, the Israeli secret service Mossad abducts former Israeli nuclear technician Mordekhai Vanunu—who revealed to the British daily The Sunday Times that Israel has atomic bombs—and transports it to Israel. He will be tried and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
• 1989: at the German embassy in Prague, the Foreign Minister of the German Federal Republic Hans-Dietrich Genscher made a speech from the balcony.
• 1993: In the city of Latur, in the state of Majarastra, India, an earthquake kills 9748 people.
• 1997: the city of Alicante (Spain), suffers the worst floods in its history after a rain of 270 mm. In a few hours, it causes 4 dead. The river Júcar overflowed in some areas of Valencia.
• 2000: In the Gaza Strip, during a clash between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian security forces, the death of Palestinian child Muhammad al-Durrah is occurring.
• 2005: in Spain, the Parliament of Catalonia approves with 120 votes in favor and 15 against, the new Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.
• 2005: a cartoon of Mohammed published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten They provoke scandal in the Islamic world.
• 2006: the National Assembly of Serbia adopts the new constitution.
• 2009: Sumatra Earthquake on a 7.6 Richter scale where life costs more than 1000 people.
• 2010: in Ecuador, the National Police takes the streets in protest against President Rafael Correa, generating panic in the country and causing dozens of uncontrollable robberies.
• 2016: In La Plata, Argentina, 200 Long Play programs are met, radio program broadcast from the first university radio in the world.
• 2019: in Peru, President Martin Vizcarra dissolves the Congress of the Republic after the denial Practice of the question of confidence presented by Salvador del Solar.
• 2020: in Colombia the company Electricaribe dissolves, and becomes Afinia
• 2021: the IdenTrust DST Root CA X3 root certificate of Let's Encrypt caduca and as a result the devices that have that certificate cease to connect to the internet

Births

• 1207: Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and mystic (f. 1273).
• 1227: Nicholas IV, Italian potato (f. 1292).
• 1715: Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, a French philosopher (f. 1780).
• 1732: Jacques Necker, French politician, minister of King Louis XVI (f. 1804).

José María Morelos and Pavon.

• 1765: José María Morelos, Mexican independentist (f. 1815).
• 1836: Remigio Morales Bermúdez, militar y política peruano (f. 1894).
• 1856: Joseph Reinach, French writer and politician (f. 1921).
• 1857: Hermann Sudermann, German novelist (f. 1928).
• 1861: Sofia Casanova, journalist, poet and novelist, first Spanish permanent correspondent in a foreign country and war correspondent (f.1958)
• 1868: José Serrato, president of Uruguay (f. 1960).
• 1870: Jean Perrin, French physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1926 (f. 1942).
• 1874: Roberto Lewis, Panamanian painter (f. 1949).
• 1878: Francisco Lagos Cházaro, a Mexican lawyer and politician (f. 1932).
• 1880: Jerónimo Siller, Mexican military and political (f. 1962).
• 1882: Hans Geiger, German physicist (f. 1945).
• 1885: Juan M. García, Mexican politician (f. 1957).
• 1895: Lewis Milestone, Russian American filmmaker (f. 1980).
• 1896: Ivan Petrov, Soviet military (f. 1958)
• 1897: Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu, violonchelist and Spanish composer (f. 1966).
• 1898: Carlota Grimaldi, Monegasque princess (f. 1977).
• 1900: Joaquín Pardavé, actor, director, singer and Mexican writer (f. 1955).
• 1905: Michael Powell, British filmmaker (f. 1990).
• 1907: Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1977 (f. 1996).
• 1908: David Óistraj, Soviet violinist (f. 1974).
• 1913: Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (f. 2007).
• 1914: Llàtzer Escarceller, Spanish actor (f. 2010).
• 1916: Richard Guy, British mathematician (f. 2020).

Park Chung-hee.

• 1917: Park Chung-hee, South Korean President (f. 1979).
• 1917: Buddy Rich, American drummer (f. 1987).
• 1918: Osvaldo Bonet, Argentine actor and director (f. 2013).
• 1918: Lewis Nixon, American military (f. 1995).
• 1920: Aldo Parisot, American musician.
• 1920: Rafael Montesinos, Spanish poet (f. 2005).
• 1921: Deborah Kerr, British actress (f. 2007).
• 1921: Pedro Knight, Cuban trumpetist (f. 2007).
• 1922: The Nabori Indian (Jesus Orta Ruiz), a Cuban poet.
• 1922: Alan Stretton, Australian general.
• 1923: Arturo Rivera, Salvadoran Archbishop (f. 1994).
• 1924: Truman Capote, American writer (f. 1984).
• 1925: Felix Luna, writer, historian and Argentine politician (f. 2009).
• 1926: Robin Roberts, American baseball player (f. 2010).
• 1927: W. S. Merwin, American poet (f. 2019).

Elie Wiesel.

• 1928: Elie Wiesel, Romanian writer, Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 (f. 2016).
• 1931: Angie Dickinson, American actress.
• 1932: Shintarō Ishihara, a Japanese politician (f. 2022).
• 1934: Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (f. 2014).
• 1934: Anna Kashfi, a Welsh actress (f. 2015).
• 1935: Johnny Mathis, American singer.
• 1937: Pepe Novoa, Argentine actor.
• 1937: Silvestrov Valentine, pianist and Ukrainian composer.
• 1939: Jean-Marie Lehn, a French chemist.
• 1942: Frankie Lymon, African American singer and composer, of the band The Teenagers (f. 1968).
• 1943: Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
• 1944: Sascha Alexander, German director and producer of pornographic cinema (f. 2016).
• 1944: János Rolla, director of Hungarian orchestra and violinist.
• 1945: The Black Alvarez (Carlos Alberto Álvarez), an Argentine actor and humorist.
• 1945: José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (f. 1996).
• 1945: Ehud Ólmert, Israeli prime minister.
• 1945: Susan Herbert, British illustrator and painter (f. 2014)
• 1946: Jochen Mass, German motor racing pilot.
• 1946: Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (f. 1993).
• 1947: Dave Arneson, American game designer (f. 2009).
• 1947: Marc Bolan, British singer, T. Rex band (f. 1977).
• 1948: Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla, member of the FARC secretariat (f. 2008).
• 1950: Laura Esquivel, Mexican writer.
• 1950: Mariano García Remón, Spanish footballer.
• 1950: Renato Zero, Italian musician.
• 1951: Barry Marshall, Australian physiologist.
• 1952: José Massaroli, Argentine hysterist.
• 1954: Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish singer.
• 1954: Barry Williams, American actor.
• 1956: Manuela Picó, a Spanish painter.
• 1957: Fran Drescher, American actress.
• 1959:
  • Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Mexican politician, governor of Puebla between 2019 and 2022 (f. 2022).
  • Francisco Javier Toledo, Honduran footballer (f. 2006).
  • Xiomara Castro, Honduran politician and businessman, the first lady of Honduras between 2006 and 2009 and President of Honduras since 2022.
• 1961: Eric Stoltz, American actor.
• 1961: Eric van de Poele, Belgian motor racing driver.
• 1962: Frank Rijkaard, Dutch soccer player and coach.
• 1963: Irma Soriano, presenter of Spanish television.

Monica Bellucci.

• 1964: Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
• 1964: Susana Zabaleta, soprano and Mexican actress.
• 1967: Víctor Maldonado, Chilean sociologist and politician.
• 1970: Tony Hale, American actor and comedian.
• 1970: Pilar Ovalle Vergara, Chilean sculptor.
• 1970: Lorena Meritano, Argentine actress.
• 1971: Jenna Elfman, American actress.
• 1971: Ricardo Gaitán, producer and Panamanian singer.
• 1972: Ari Behn, a Danish-Norway writer (f. 2019).
• 1974: Jorgelina Aruzzi, an Argentine actress.

Daniel Wu.

• 1974: Daniel Wu, American actor, director and producer.
• 1975: Marion Cotillard, French actress.
• 1975: Glenn Fredly, Indonesian singer (f. 2020).
• 1975: Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1976: Ernesto Munro López, Mexican politician.
• 1977: Roy Carroll, North Irish footballer.
• 1977: Martín Romagnoli, Argentine footballer.
• 1978: Juan Magán, singer and Spanish DJ.
• 1978: Candice Michelle, model and professional American fighter.
• 1979: Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
• 1980: Martina Hingis, Slovak-Swiss tennis player.
• 1980: Arisa Ogasawara, actress and Japanese bent actress.
• 1982: Lacey Chabert, American actress.
• 1982: Kieran Culkin, American actor.
• 1982: Michelle Marsh, British model.
• 1982: Teal Redmann, American actress.
• 1983: Crespita Rodríguez, Chilean boxer
• 1984: Keisha Buchanan, British singer, Sugababes band.
• 1984: Juan Pablo Caffa, Argentine footballer.
• 1984: T-Pain, American singer of rhythm and blues.
• 1985: Cristian Rodriguez, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1985: Francisco Elizalde, Mexican singer.
• 1985: Katrina Law, American actress.
• 1987: Joo Won, South Korean actor.
• 1988: Brays Efe, Spanish actor.
• 1992: Ezra Miller, American actor and musician.
• 1993: Badr Banoun, Moroccan footballer.
• 1994: Aliyá Mustáfina, an artistic gymnast.
• 1996: Miriam Rodríguez Spanish singer and actress.
• 1997: Yana Kudriávtseva, a Russian rhythm gymnast.
• 1997: Max Verstappen, a Dutch motor racing pilot.
• 2002: Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress.
• 2002: Levi Miller, Australian actor and model.
• 2005: Carlos Wong, Mexican artist.

Deaths

• 420: Jerome of Stridon, Croatian or Slovenian saint (n. 340).
• 653: Honour of Canterbury, Roman Archbishop (n. VI century).
• 1101: Anselmo IV of Bovisio, an Italian archbishop.
• 1246: Yaroslav II of Novgorod, Russian prince (n. 1191).
• 1440: Reginald Grey, soldier and English politician.
• 1551: ⋅uchi Yoshitaka, Japanese military.
• 1560: Melchor Cano, Spanish theologian (n. 1509).
• 1572: Francis of Borja, Jesuit priest (n. 1510).
• 1581: Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformist.
• 1612: Federico Barocci, Italian painter (n. 1535).
• 1626: Nurhaci, chief manchuriano (n. 1559).
• 1628: Fulke Grevilly, British poet.
• 1770: Thomas Robinson, British politician (n. 1738).
• 1770: George Whitefield, British Methodist Leader (n. 1714).
• 1772: James Brindley, British engineer.
• 1813: Atanasio Girardot, Colombian military (n. 1791).
• 1827: Wilhelm Müller, German poet (n. 1794).
• 1860: Juan Rafael Mora Porras, politician and president of Costa Rica (n. 1814).
• 1863: Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, German ornithologist (n. 1803).
• 1890: Agapito García Dávila, Mexican politician (n. 1812).
• 1891: Georges Boulanger, French general and political (n. 1837).

Teresa of Lisieux.

• 1897: Teresa de Lisieux, a French Catholic religious (n. 1873).
• 1898: Laureano Fuentes Matons, violinist, orchestra director and classic Cuban composer (n. 1825).
• 1922: Jean-Baptiste Ernest Lacombe, French architect (n. 1854).
• 1932: Francisco Carvajal, Mexican politician, interim president in 1914 (n. 1870).
• 1936: Álvaro López Núñez, a Spanish journalist (n. 1865).
• 1942: Hans-Joachim Marseille, German combat pilot (n. 1919).
• 1943: Franz Oppenheimer, a German sociologist and political economist (n. 1864).

James Dean.

• 1955: James Dean, American actor (n. 1931).
• 1960: St John Philby, arabist, intelligence officer and British writer (n. 1885).
• 1963: Joaquín Benjumea, Spanish politician (n. 1878).
• 1973: Peter Pitseolak, Czech photographer.
• 1977: Mary Ford, American singer (n. 1924).
• 1978: Edgar Bergen, American actor (n. 1903).
• 1981: Mirtha Reid, Uruguayan actress (n. 1918).
• 1984: Eulogio Martínez, Paraguayan footballer (n. 1935).
• 1984: Anna Świrszczyńska, Polish poet (n. 1909).
• 1985: Charles Richter, American Seismologist (n. 1900).
• 1985: Rodrigo de Santiago, Spanish musician (n. 1907).
• 1985: Simone Signoret, French actress (n. 1921).
• 1987: Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (n. 1913).
• 1987: Oscar Quiñones, Peruvian painter and sculptor (n. 1919).

Patrick White.

• 1990: Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 (n. 1912).
• 1992: Ambrós, Spanish cartoonist (n. 1913).
• 1994: André Lwoff, a French biologist and doctor of Russian-Polish origin (n. 1902).
• 1994: Roberto Eduardo Viola, militar, dictator and delinquent Argentinean (n. 1924).
• 2000: Rubén Luis Di Palma, an Argentine motor vehicle pilot (n. 1944).
• 2004: Michael Relph, British producer and filmmaker.
• 2007: Milan Jelić, Serbian president between 2006 and 2007 (n. 1956).
• 2007: Evel Knievel, American acrobat (n. 1938).
• 2007: Joe Mitty, British businessman, founder of Oxfam (n. 1919).
• 2009: Raúl Alfredo Magaña, soccer player and Salvadoran coach (n. 1940).
• 2010: Joan Triadú, Spanish writer and literary critic (n. 1921).
• 2010: Joseph Sobran, American journalist and writer (n. 1946).
• 2011: Oliver Hardy, Mexican actor and comedian (n. 1926).
• 2011: Anwar al-Awlaki, Muslim cleric and activist (n. 1971).
• 2011: Adria Santana, Cuban actress (n. 1948).
• 2012: Barry Commoner, American biologist and politician (n. 1917).
• 2012: Elena Musmanno, scientist and Argentine nutritionist (n. 1908).
• 2012: Autran Dourado, Brazilian writer (n. 1926).
• 2012: Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian skater, Olympic medalist (n. 1928).
• 2012: Boris Šprem, Croatian politician (n. 1956).
• 2012: José Luis Villarreal "Ponychoche", Mexican musician and drummer of the group Bronco (n. 1957).

Rangel Valchanov.

• 2013: Rangel Valchanov, actor and Bulgarian film director (n. 1928).
• 2014: Martin Lewis Perl, American chemical and physical engineer, nobel physics award in 1995 (n. 1927).
• 2014: Maria Rodriguez, Venezuelan singer (n. 1924).
• 2014: Xu Lizhi, Chinese poet (n. 1990).
• 2016: Néstor Enrique Rufino Ahuad, doctor and politician from Argentina (n. 1940).
• 2016: Ted Benoit, historietist and French graphic novelist (n. 1947).
• 2016: Guillermo Gómez Martínez-Conde, Spanish lawyer and politician (n. 1928).
• 2017: Frank Alan Hamblen II, American basketball player and coach (n. 1947).
• 2017: Vladimir Aleksándrovich Voyevodski, American nationalized Russian mathematician and topologist (n. 1966).
• 2018: Carlos Ángel López, Argentine footballer (n. 1952).
• 2018: Walter Zeev Laqueur, American historian and political scientist (n. 1921).
• 2019: Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician (n. 1941).
• 2019: Jessye Norman, American soprano singer (n. 1945).

Quino.

• 2020: Quino, humorist graphic and historietista argentina (n. 1932).
• 2022: Sanyutei Enraku, a Japanese rakugo comedian (n. 1950).
• 2022: Alexandru Vagner, Romanian footballer (n. 1989).

Celebrations

• International Translation Day
• Secretary's Day
• International Day of the Right to Blasphemy
• International Day of Pidcast

• BotswanaBotswana:
  • Day of Botswana
• ChileChile
  • HUANHUALI: National party to show the hylacha
• CanadaCanada:
  • Day of the Orange Shirt
• SpainSpain:
  • Albornos (Avila): Feast of Patrons in honor of Saint Jerome
  • Barriomartín (Soria): Patron Festival in honor of San Jerónimo
  • Benferri (Alicante): Festivity in honour of Saint Jerome
  • Benirredrá (Valencia): Fiesta en honor de San Francisco de Borja
  • Burjasot (Valencia): Feast in honor of the Virgin of the Head
  • Cerezal de Sanabria (Zamora): Patron Festival in honor of San Jerónimo
  • Eraul (Yerri, Navarre): Feast in honor of the Virgin of the Tos
  • Sources of Cesna (Granada): Patron Festival in honour of San Jerónimo
  • Gandía (Valencia): Fiesta en honor de San Francisco de Borja
  • Guadalupe (Cáceres): Festivity in honour of San Jerónimo
  • Olmedo (Valladolid): Festivity in honor of San Jerónimo
  • Salinas de Oro (Navarra): Festivity in honour of San Jerónimo
  • Saint John of the Molinillo Ávila: Feast in honor of Christ
  • Viver (Castellón): Feast in honor of the Virgin of Grace
  • Yebes (Guadalajara): Festivity in honour of Saint Jerome
• PolandPoland:
  • Boy's Day
• Sao Tome and Principe:
  • Agrarian Reform Day (Nationalization)
• Venezuela Venezuela
  • Day of Secretaries

Catholic saints list

• San Jerónimo, priest and doctor of the Church (f. 420)
• San Antonino de Piacenza, martyr
• Santos Urso and Víctor de Soleure, martyrs (f. 320)
• Saint Gregory the Illuminator, Eremite and Bishop (f. 326)
• Santa Eusebia de Marseille, virgin (f. 497)
• Saint Honorius of Cantorbery, monk and bishop (f. 653)
• Saint Simon of Crespy, monk and Eremite (f. 1082)
• Saint Beloved of Nusco, bishop (f. 1093)
• St. Ismidon of Die, Bishop (f. 1115)
• Blessed Felicia Meda, Abbey (f. 1444)
• Blessed Juan Nicolás Cordier, priest and martyr (f. 1794)
• Blessed Frederick Albert, priest and founder (f. 1876)