What are the important events that happened on September 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 17, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,759,190,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontatrigon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 140 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,666 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 30 Historical Events
- 1791 –The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
- 1813 –Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1927 –Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 1935 –The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1941 –World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- 1945 –The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
- 1947 –The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1954 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
Who were born on September 30?
- 1207 –Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
- 1732 –Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
- 1883 –Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
- 1919 –Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
- 1931 –Angie Dickinson, American actress
- 1971 –Jenna Elfman, American actress
- 1980 –Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 –Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
- 1982 –Lacey Chabert, American actress
- 1982 –Ryane Clowe Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on September 30?
- 653 –Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1910 –Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
- 1943 –Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1988 –Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
- 1989 –Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
- 1990 –Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
- 2002 –Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
- 2003 –Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
- 2004 –Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
- 2011 –Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)
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