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Monday, September 30, 2013

TODAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 30TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 30th!
1568Eric XIV, king of Sweden, is deposed after showing signs of madness.
1630John Billington, one of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, becomes the first man executed in the English colonies. He is hanged for having shot another man during a quarrel
1703The French, at Hochstadt in the War of the Spanish Succession, suffer only 1,000 casualties to the 11,000 of their opponents, the Austrians of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
1788The Pennsylvania Legislature elected the first two members of the U.S. Senate – William Maclay of Harrisburg and Robert Morris of Philadelphia.
1791Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria.
Mozart    Today in History, September 30th
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1846The first anesthetized tooth extraction is performed by Dr. William Morton in Charleston, Massachusetts.
1864Confederate troops fail to retake Fort Harrison from the Union forces during the siege of Petersburg.
1911Italy declares war on Turkey over control of Tripoli.
1918Bulgaria pulls out of World War I.
1924Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans.
1927Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season to break his own major-league record.
1935George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess opens at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
1938Under German threats of war, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign an accord permitting Germany to take control of Sudetenland–a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a German-speaking minority.
1939The French Army is called back into France from its invasion of Germany. The attack, code named Operation Saar, only penetrated five miles.
1943The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps becomes the Women’s Army Corps, a regular contingent of the U.S. Army with the same status as other army service corps.
1946An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1949The Berlin Airlift is officially halted after 277,264 flights.
1950U.N. forces cross the 38th parallel separating North and South Korea as they pursue the retreating North Korean Army.
1954The first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus, is commissioned in Groton, Connecticut.
1954NATO nations agree to arm and admit West Germany.
1955Actor and teen idol James Dean is killed in a car crash while driving his Porsche on his way to enter it into a race in Salinas, California.
1960Fifteen African nations are admitted to the United Nations.
1962U.S. Marshals escort James H. Meredith into the University of Mississippi; two die in the mob violence that follows.
James Meredith 230x300    Today in History, September 30th
James Meredith
1962The National Farm Workers Association, founded by Cesar Chavez and a forerunner of the United Farm Workers, held its first meeting in Fresno, Calif.
1965President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation that establishes the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities.
1965The 30 September Movement unsuccessfully attempts coup against Indonesian government; an anti-communist purge in the aftermath results in over 500,000 deaths.
1966Bechuanaland ceases to be a British protectorate and becomes the independent Republic of Botswana.
1972Pro baseball great Roberto Clemente hits his 3,000th—and final—hit of his career.
1982The situation comedy “Cheers” premiered on NBC.
1991The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country’s first freely-elected president.
1993A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern India, killing an estimated 10,000 people.
1994Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground transit system closes after 88 years.
1997France’s Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.

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