Today in History
30 September
Sultan of Turkey; reformed and improved civil and military codes; united a group of unstable territories into an empire
Charles Villiers Stanford
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| 1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew |
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| 1399 King Richard II of England abdicates throne | ||
| 1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible | ||
| 1520 Suleiman I succeeds his father SelŒm I as sultan of Turkey | ||
| 1544 King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France | ||
| 1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic | ||
| 1619 Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp | ||
| 1626 Battle between king Bethlen G bor & earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends | ||
| 1649 Last Swedish troops vacate Prague | ||
| 1681 Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty | ||
| 1730 Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns | ||
| 1743 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer was born | ||
| 1752 Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer was born | ||
| 1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance | ||
| 1787 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston | ||
| 1805 Napoleons army draws into the Rhine | ||
| 1808 Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire | ||
| 1818 Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England | ||
| 1841 Samuel Slocum patented the stapler | Sultan of Turkey; reformed and improved civil and military codes; united a group of unstable territories into an empire |
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| 1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer was born | ||
| 1863 Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I) was born | ||
| 1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession | ||
| 1868 Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France | ||
| 1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula | ||
| 1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate | ||
| 1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar | ||
| 1898 City of NY established | ||
| 1900 Otto Roesch, paleontologist was born | ||
| 1922 Governament of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece | ||
| 1924 Allies stop checking on German navy | ||
| 1926 German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes | ||
| 1928 Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) | ||
| 1935 Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston | ||
| 1936 Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England | ||
| 1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany | ||
| 1939 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton) |
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| 1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland | ||
| 1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England | ||
| 1940 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) | ||
| 1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine | ||
| 1941 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) | ||
| 1941 German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins | ||
| 1942 Adm Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map | ||
| 1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period | ||
| 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit | ||
| 1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies | ||
| 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms | ||
| 1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg | Charles Villiers Stanford |
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| 1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights | ||
| 1950 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris | ||
| 1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy | ||
| 1957 French govt of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria | ||
| 1958 French Guine becomes independent republic Guinea | ||
| 1962 JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi | ||
| 1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) |
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| 1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out | ||
| 1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) | ||
| 1977 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns | ||
| 1982 National railroad strike in Belgium | ||
| 1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov | ||
| 1987 Suriname constitution ratified | ||
| 1989 Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal | ||
| 1991 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti | ||
| 1993 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed | ||
| 1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56 | John Fisher (left) and Nicholas Ridley (right) were both Bishops of Rochester early in the l6th century and were men with strongly held but different religious views. Fisher was a committed Catholic, and Ridley an early English Protestant. Almost inevitably the careers and ultimately the deaths of both men were bound up in the Reformation of Henry VIII | |
| 1993 MS Dos 6.2 released | ||
| 1994 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi | ||
| 1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 | ||
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