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 274^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 17, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,727,654,400 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 ‘dihectaheptacontatetragon’ day.

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 121 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 4,301 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 30 Historical Events

• 1744 –
  France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 1791 –
  The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as “incorruptible patriots”.
• 1895 –
  Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1939 –
  General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1954 –
  The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1962 –
  Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
• 1965 –
  The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
• 1986 –
  Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
• 1999 –
  Japan’s second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
• 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.

Who were born on September 30?

• 1832 –
  Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905)
• 1882 –
  Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
• 1921 –
  Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
• 1942 –
  Gus Dudgeon, record producer (d. 2002)
• 1960 –
  Julia Adamson, composer/musician
• 1965 –
  Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
• 1965 –
  Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian and actor
• 1977 –
  Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
• 1980 –
  Simon Little, English bassist
• 1986 –
  Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player

Who died on September 30?

• 1772 –
  James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
• 1913 –
  Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
• 1942 –
  Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
• 1961 –
  Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1978 –
  Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
• 1990 –
  Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
• 1990 –
  Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1998 –
  Marius Goring, British Actor (b. 1912)
• 2003 –
  Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
• 2004 –
  Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b. 1935)