Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 30
This is a list of selected September 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Botswana (1966); | refimprove section |
| ; Blasphemy Day | unsure if still being observed (see talk page) |
| 1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown. | refimprove section |
| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1791 – The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – Seretse Khama became the first President of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Construction of the Kwun Tong line, the first line of Hong Kong's MTR rapid transit system, was completed. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology. | refimprove section |
| 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. | neutrality issues |
| Basia (b. 1954) | too much unreferenced |
Eligible
- 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
- 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.
- 1975 – The AH-64 Apache, the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
- 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.
- 2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.
- Born/died: Fan Yanguang (d. 940) · Ann Jarvis (b. 1832) · Charles Villiers Stanford (b. 1852) · Doris Mackinnon (b. 1883) · Anwar al-Awlaki (d. 2011)
Notes
- Pilot (The Cosby Show) appears on September 20, so Cheers should not appear in the same year
September 30: First day of Rosh Hashanah (Judaism, 2019, AM 5780)
the 2009 Sumatra earthquake
- 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribes attacked the exposed baggage train of the Umayyads, which had been sent ahead of the main force, and captured it.
- 1551 – Sue Takafusa, a military leader for 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, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went on line in Appleton, Wisconsin.
- 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
- 2009 – A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia (damage pictured), killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
Honorius of Canterbury (d. 653) · Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (b. 1814) · Catie Ball (b. 1951)