# On this day: September 30

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years), with 92 days left until the end of the year.

## September 30 in one line

Headline entries for September 30, from Wikipedia: in 1955, American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California; born 1207: Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273); died 1955: James Dean, American actor (born 1931). In 2026 it is a Wednesday, in 2027 a Thursday.

## Events on September 30

- 737 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Baggage)
- 1139 A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1139_Ganja_earthquake)
- 1342 An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Morlaix)
- 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent)
- 1551 Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainei-ji_incident)
- 1791 Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute)
- 1863 Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_p%C3%AAcheurs_de_perles)
- 1882 The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Street_Plant)
- 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper)
- 1918 Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dibrivka)
- 1920 Times Square Theater opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square_Theater)
- 1938 Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement)
- 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations)
- 1939 NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Waynesburg_vs._Fordham_football_game)
- 1939 Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski)
- 1944 World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden)
- 1955 American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Dean)
- 1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747)
- 1975 The Boeing AH-64 Apache, the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache)
- 1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet)
- 1982 Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_a_Ring_Sometime)
- 1998 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN)
- 2000 Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muhammad_al-Durrah)
- 2005 The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy)
- 2009 A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sumatra_earthquakes)
- 2019 President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Peruvian_constitutional_crisis)

## Born on September 30

- 1207 Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi)
- 1227 Pope Nicholas IV (died 1292) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_IV)
- 1714 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (died 1780) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Bonnot_de_Condillac)
- 1732 Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1804) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Necker)
- 1870 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Perrin)
- 1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (died 1945) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Geiger)
- 1905 Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevill_Mott)
- 1908 David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1974) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oistrakh)
- 1921 Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (died 2007) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Kerr)
- 1924 Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote)
- 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel)
- 1934 Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2014) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_J%C3%BCrgens)
- 1939 Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Lehn)
- 1943 Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Deisenhofer)
- 1945 Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert)
- 1951 Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall)
- 1964 Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Bellucci)
- 1975 Marion Cotillard, French actress and singer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Cotillard)
- 1980 Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_Hingis)
- 1986 Olivier Giroud, French footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Giroud)
- 1992 Ezra Miller, American actor and singer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller)
- 1997 Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Verstappen)

## Died on September 30

- 420 Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome)
- 954 Louis IV of France (born 920) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IV_of_France)
- 1626 Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (born 1559) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurhaci)
- 1891 Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1837) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ernest_Boulanger)
- 1897 Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (born 1873) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux)
- 1955 James Dean, American actor (born 1931) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean)
- 1985 Simone Signoret, French actress (born 1921) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Signoret)
- 1985 Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (born 1900) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richter)
- 1990 Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White)
- 1994 André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Michel_Lwoff)
- 2011 Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_M._Steinman)
- 2014 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lewis_Perl)
- 2024 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player (born 1966) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo)
- 2024 Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (born 1954) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Page)

## Holidays and observances

- Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe)
- Birth of Morelos (Mexico) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Mexico)
- Boy's Day (Poland) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Poland)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Federico Albert [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Albert)
- Christian feast day: Gregory the Illuminator [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_the_Illuminator)
- Christian feast day: Honorius of Canterbury [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius_of_Canterbury)
- Christian feast day: Jerome [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome)
- Christian feast day: September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_30_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics))
- Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Botswana))
- International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Translation_Day)
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt Day (Canada) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_for_Truth_and_Reconciliation)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “September 30”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_30) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/September 30”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_30) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“September 30”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_30) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_30?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for September 30 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## September 30 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Wednesday | 2026-W40 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2027 | Thursday | 2027-W39 | 🌑 New Moon |
| 2028 | Saturday | 2028-W39 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |
| 2029 | Sunday | 2029-W39 | 🌗 Last Quarter |
| 2030 | Monday | 2030-W40 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on September 30

None of the 28 countries we track has a public holiday on September 30 in 2026 or 2027.

[Today's holidays in 28 countries →](https://whathappen.today/holidays/)

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