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What happened in history on this day: September 30?
On September 30 in ...
- 1850 - Congress gives approval to establish a US Assay Office in San Francisco, California.
- 1857 - US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, south of Hawaii.
- 1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession.
- 1898 - City of New York is established.
- 1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights.
- 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1962 - James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi.
- 1968 - First Boeing 747 jet airliner rolls out.
- 1970 - A fire at the Smithsonian Institution damages portions of the Hall of Monetary History and Medallic Art.
- 1975 - Five drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls, New York).
- 1980 - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
- 1986 - US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov.
- 1988 - IBM announces shipment of three millionth PS/2 personal computer.
- 1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension.
- 1996 - Congress passes the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997; the Bureau of the Mint is renamed the United States Mint.
- 2005 - Michael Eisner resigns from The Walt Disney Company board of directors, also his last day as CEO of the company. The value of the company during Eisner's term (1984-2005) rose from US$3 billion to US$60 billion. New company CEO is Robert Iger.
- 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounds by 485.21 points (4.68 percent), the third largest one-day point gain.
- 2009 - The US budget deficit hits a record US$1.4 trillion in the year to the end of September.
- 2021 - US Mint Director David J. Ryder resigns.
Births on September 30
- 1919 - Birth of Patricia Neway in Brooklyn, New York, USA; soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia).
- 1931 - Birth of Angie Dickinson in Kulm, North Dakota, USA; American actress (Police Woman).
- 1932 - Birth of Ben Cooper in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Johnny Guitar, Rose Tattoo).
- 1934 - Birth of Freddie King in Gilmer, Texas, USA; blues singer ("Hideaway").
- 1935 - Birth of Jill Corey in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, USA; singer (Your Hit Parade).
- 1938 - Birth of Salvatore Michael Caruana in Massachusetts, USA; criminal (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1942 - Birth of Frankie Lymon in New York City, New York, USA; rocker (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - "Why do Fools Fall in Love").
- 1943 - Birth of Marilyn McCoo in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension).
- 1953 - Birth of Deborah Allen in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Jim Stafford Show).
- 1954 - Birth of Barry Williams in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Greg - The Brady Bunch).
- 1954 - Birth of Calvin Levels in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Knightwatch).
- 1957 - Birth of William Christian in Washington, DC, USA; actor (Derek - All My Children).
- 1958 - Birth of Christopher Cass in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA; actor (Jack Forbes - Loving).
- 1961 - Birth of Crystal Bernard in Dallas, Texas, USA; actress (Amy - It's a Living, Wings).
- 1977 - Birth of Maia Brewton in Los Angeles, California; actress (Margaret - Lime Street).
- 1981 - Birth of Dominique Moceanu; American gymnast.
- 1984 - Birth of Megan Ewing, American model.
Deaths on September 30
- 1955 - James Dean is killed in an auto collision at age 24 near Cholame, California.
- 1978 - Death of Edgar Bergen at age 75, American actor and ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) (born 1903).
- 1985 - Death of Herbert Bayer, American advertising designer, in Montecito, California (born in Haag, Austria).
- 2014 - Death of Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (born 1927).
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