September 30

737 – An army of Turgesh Khaganate under Qughan Suluk, drives back a moslem Umayyad invasion under Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri, of Khuttal  -modern northern Afghanistan – and continue to pursue them south of the Oxus river, even capturing their baggage train.

1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter the Tula indian tribe territory in present day western Arkansas

1791 – Wolfgang Mozart’s opera; Die Zauberflöte –The Magic Flute – premieres at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna

1863 – Georges Bizet’s opera; Les pêcheurs de perles –The Pearl Fishers – premieres at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris.

1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant -the Vulcan Street Plant- begins operation in Appleton, Wisconsin

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the mausoleum of assassinated President McKinley and later his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1915 – During World War I,  defending Kragujevac Serbia, Private Radoje Ljutovac of the Serbian Army becomes the first soldier noted to shoot down an enemy – Austro Hungarian – aircraft with ground fire.

1935 – The Hoover Dam, on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1938 – Britain and France, in a futile attempt to appease Germany and Italy,  sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Fordham University Rams and the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets at Triborough Stadium on New York City’s Randall’s Island.

1946 – Lt. General Takashi Sakai IJA, is executed by firing squad for war crimes committed by his troops during the occupation of Hong Kong.

1947 – The 1947 ‘Subway’ World Series between the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers is the first to be televised

1954 – The U.S. submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear powered vessel.

1968 – The Boeing 747 is shown to the public for the first time.

1970 – The Jordanian government makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.

2005 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.

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2016 – Hurricane Matthew strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.