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!

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