Historical Events -  September 30

1399: Henry IV became King of England.

1860: Britain’s first tram service began.

1882: Water power was first used to produce electricity at a plant on the Fox River near Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

1895: France annexed Madagascar.

1935: Hoover Dam was completed.

1947: Pakistan and Yemen joined the United Nations.

1949: Mao Tse-tung formally became the chairman of the People’s Republic of China.

1954: The launched of the first nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S. S. Nautilus.

1961: The first match of the Duleep Trophy is played at Madras (Chennai).

1966: Botswana gained independence from the United Kingdom.

1993: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake stroked Latur, India, killing more than 9,000 people. 

 

Famous Birthdays – September 30

1207: Rumi, the Persian mystic and poet.

1832: Anna Maria Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day in the United States.

1900: M. C. Chagla, Judge, diplomat, and Union Minister.

1919: Firoz Dastur, an Indian film actor and an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana.

1922: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director.

1928: Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

1934: Anna Kashfi, Indian-British film actress.

1939: Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.

1941: Kamlesh Sharma, Indian diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary-General.

1943: Johann Deisenhofer, a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

1955: Andy Bechtolsheim, German electrical engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

1933: Prabhakar Pandit, musician, and violinist.

1964: Monica Bellucci, an Italian actress, and model.

1970: Deepa Malik, Indian athlete. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and won a Silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put.

1972: Shantanu Mukherjee (Shaan), Indian playback singer.

1980: Martina Hingis, a Swiss tennis player.

1986: Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer.

1997: Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula 1 driver.

 

Death Anniversaries  – September 30

1694: Marcello Malpighi, an Italian physician.

1985: Charles Richter, American geologist.

1998: Chandratai Kirloskar, an Indian activist.

2001: Madhavrao Shinde, former Indian Union Railway Minister, Civil Aviation Minister.

2003 – Yusuf Bay, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery. 

2011: Ralph Marvin Steinman, Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University.

2014: Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric, and politician.