30th of September

Today is the 273rd day of the year, with 92 days remaining until the end of the year.

1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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

1904 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.

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 - German Einsatzgruppe C complete the Babi Yur massacre, in Kiev, Ukraine.

1947 - The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

1968 - The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1972 - Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.

1975 - The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

1980 - Ethernet specifications are published Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area.  Seven are killed in all.

1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Isreal's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.

2004 - The first images of a lie giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo, Japan.

2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service.  Almost two years later, the aircraft itself is retired.

James Dean - American film star, dies in a car accident at the age of 24 in 1955.  His accident was caused while he was driving his Porsche 550 Spyder on route 466 east of Cholame, San Luis Obispo County, when a black-and-white 1950 Ford Custom Tudor coupe driven by Cal Polytech student Donald Turnupseed, crossed into Dean's lane while taking a fork to State Route 41.  The two cars collided, with Dean flying out of his car, and most likely slamming his head on the grill of the other car, had multiple fractures of the jaw, arms and legs, as well as massive internal bleeding.

29th of September

Today is the 272nd day of the year, with only 93 days remaining.

480 BC - During the Battle of Salamis, The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.

1789 AD - The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1789 - The first United States Congress adjourns.

1864 - The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought during the War of Secesssion.

1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the second billionaire.

1943 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Peitro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson, off the coast of Malta.

1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the U.S., is a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

28th of September

It is the 271st day of the year, with only 94 days remaining until the new year.

1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia during the American Revolution.

1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress and sent to the state legislatures for their approval.

1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.

1951 - CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

27th of September

It is the 270th day of the year with 95 days remaining until the end of the year.


1066 - William the Conqueror and his army, set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.


1540 - The Society of Jesus, The Jesuits, receives its charter from Pope Paul III.


1590 - Pope Urban VII, dies at the age of 69 only 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.


1777 - For one day, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States.


1821 - Mexico gains its independence from the Spanish Crown.


1822 - Jean-Francois Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.


1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.


1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

1908 - The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

 1930 - Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf.  The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.


1937 - The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct.


1940 - The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Japan, and Italy in Berlin.


1942 - Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as U.S. Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the river.


1944 - The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by the United States Army Air Force group on any mission in World War II.


1956 - USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2.  Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and crashes.


1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.


1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding the Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.


1979 - The United States Department of Education, receives final approval from Congress to become the 13the U.S. Cabinet agency.


1995 - The Government of the United States, unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.


2008 - CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.

26th of September

Today is the 269th day of the year, with 96 days remaining until the new year.

46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.

1580 AD - Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.

1687 - The Parthenon in Athens, Greece is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks.

1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.

1783 - The first battle of Shays' Rebellion begins.

1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice, Samuel Osgood is appointed first Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed first Attorney General.

1908 - Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1914 - The United States Federal Trade Commission is established.

1918 - The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, lasting almost two months.

1944 - Operation Market Garden is proved to be a failure.

1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru, sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait of Japan, killing 1,172 people.

1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California burning nearly 175,425 acres to the ground.

1981 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy, becomes the first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

25th of September

Today is the 268th day of the year with only 97 days remaining.

275 - In Rome, after the assassination of Aurelian, the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.

151 - Spanish explorer, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

1789 - The Congress passes the Bill of Rights, Congressional Compensation Amendment, and Congressional Apportionment Amendment.

1804 - The Teton Sioux, demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, as a toll for moving further upriver.

1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.

1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park, in Boston, Masschusetts.

1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind blight from Mitchel Field, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

1944 - Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands.  This ends the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated by the use of U.S. Army troops.

1977 - About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court and the first woman to hold the office.

1992 - NASA launches a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years.  Eleven months later, the probe would fail.

24th of September

Today is the 267th day of the year with 98 days that are remaining until the new year.

622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra, or journey from Mecca to Medina.

1789 - The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court.

1852 - The first airship, powered by a steam engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles from Paris to Trappes in France.

1877 - Battle of Siroyama occurs, as a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.

1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt, proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming, as the nation's first National Monument.

1935 - Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights in Columbia, Mississippi.

1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1957 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in order to enforce desegregation.

1968 - 60 Minutes, makes its television debut on CBS.

1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

1990 - Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.  These are storms on the planet that can be seen from our home world.

1996 - President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

2008 - The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.