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Independence Day in
Botswana (
1966 );
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Blasphemy Day
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1399 – Henry Bolingbroke,
Duke of Lancaster , deposed
Richard II to become
Henry IV of England , merging the
Duchy of Lancaster with the
crown .
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1744 –
War of the Austrian Succession : The armies of France and Spain won a
Pyrrhic victory over the
Kingdom of Sardinia at the
Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near
Cuneo , Italy.
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1791 –
The Magic Flute , one of the last operas composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , premiered at
Theater auf der Wieden in
Vienna , Austria.
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1966 –
Seretse Khama became the first
president of Botswana when the
Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.
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1979 – Construction of the
Kwun Tong line , the first line of Hong Kong's
MTR
rapid transit system, was completed.
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1980 –
Xerox ,
Intel and
Digital Equipment Corporation published the first
Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired
local area network (LAN) technology.
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2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live
giant squid in its natural habitat.
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737 –
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana :
Türgesh tribes
attacked the
Umayyad army's exposed
baggage train , which had been sent ahead of the main force, and captured it.
1939 –
Second World War : General
Władysław Sikorski became the first
prime minister of the
Polish government-in-exile .
1939 –
NBC broadcast the
first televised American football game , between the
Fordham Rams and the
Waynesburg Yellow Jackets .
1955 – American film actor
James Dean suffered fatal injuries in
a head-on car accident near
Cholame, California .
1965 – Members of the
30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government, which was crushed by the military under
Suharto , leading to
a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
1982 –
Cheers , an American television sitcom, debuted with
its pilot episode on
NBC .
1998 – The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a
nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of
domain names and
IP addresses in the
Internet , was incorporated.
2005 – The Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten
published controversial editorial cartoons depicting
Muhammad , sparking protests across the
Muslim world by many who viewed them as
Islamophobic and
blasphemous .
2009 – A 7.6
MW earthquake
struck off the southern coast of
Sumatra , Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
Born/died: |
Honorius of Canterbury |d|653|
Fan Yanguang |d|940|
Thomas Allen |d|1632|
Decimus Burton |b|1800|
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814|
Ann Jarvis |b|1832|
Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852|
Doris Mackinnon |b|1883|
Basia |b|1954|
Sonia Orbuch |d|2018
Notes
September 30 :
Orange Shirt Day in Canada
1551 –
Sue Takafusa , a retainer of the
Ōuchi clan in western Japan,
led a coup against the
daimyō
Ōuchi Yoshitaka , leading to the latter's
forced suicide .
1882 – The
Vulcan Street Plant in
Appleton, Wisconsin , the first
hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
1938 –
Adolf Hitler ,
Benito Mussolini ,
Neville Chamberlain , and
Édouard Daladier signed the
Munich Agreement , stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the
Sudetenland to Germany.
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