History Events on September 30

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

#Israeli-Palestinian_conflict

Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.

#Vulcan_Street_Plant

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

#Boeing_747

World War II: General W?adys?aw Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

#World_War_II

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

#Ethernet

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

#League_of_Nations

Pakistan joins the United Nations.

#Pakistan

Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.

#Roberto_Clemente

World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

#World_War_I

The 7.6 Mw? Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

#2009_Sumatra_earthquakes

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

#Jack_the_Ripper

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.

#James_Meredith

Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

#Van_Gogh_Museum

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

#USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)

Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.

#Henry_IV_of_England

Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.

#Aldwych_tube_station

Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

#Suleiman_the_Magnificent

The University of Alabama opens the American football season with a 110-0 victory over the Marion Military Institute, which still stands as Alabama's record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.

#Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football

World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

#Babi_Yar

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

#Hernando_de_Soto

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

#Canadian_Tribute_to_Human_Rights

The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

#The_Magic_Flute

The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.

#Battle_of_the_Baggage

The Berlin Airlift ends.

#Berlin_Blockade

Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

#Voortrekkers_(youth_organisation)

Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

#Botswana

The 6.2 Mw? Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

#1993_Latur_earthquake

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

#Babe_Ruth

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

#Hoover_Dam

Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

#Dawson's_Field_hijackings

A coup by the military establishment of Japan's ?uchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.

#Tainei-ji_incident

France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly

#National_Constituent_Assembly_(France)

The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

#RMS_Mauretania_(1906)

Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.

#Ongar_railway_station

The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

#McKinley_National_Memorial

Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

#Munich_Agreement

Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

#Hurricane_Matthew

The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

#United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy

The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched.

#BBC_Light_Programme

Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.

The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat itself is retired.

The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.

The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.

Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.

The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43

NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.