Events on September 30 55
Year 489
Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
Year 737
Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
Year 1541
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
Year 1551
Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.
Year 1744
France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
Year 1791
The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
Year 1791
The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
Year 1882
Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
Year 1888
Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
Year 1906
The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
Year 1907
McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
Year 1915
Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
Year 1922
University of Alabama opened the football season with a 110-0 victory over the Marion Military Institute which still stands as the school record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
Year 1931
Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Year 1935
The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
Year 1938
Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
Year 1938
The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
Year 1939
World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
Year 1939
NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
Year 1941
World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
Year 1943
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Year 1947
The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
Year 1954
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
Year 1962
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
Year 1965
The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
Year 1966
The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
Year 1967
BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
Year 1968
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
Year 1970
Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
Year 1975
The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
Year 1977
Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
Year 1979
The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
Year 1980
Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Year 1988
Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
Year 1990
The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
Year 1993
The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
Year 1994
Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
Year 1994
Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
Year 1999
The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
Year 2004
The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
Year 2005
The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Year 2009
The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This dip-slip (reverse) earthquake left 1,115 people dead, and was followed several days later by a 6.6 Mw strike-slip event.
Year 2016
Hurricane Matthew became a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea, since Hurricane Felix in 2007.