TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 30
1568 – Eric XIV, king of Sweden, is deposed after showing signs of madness.
1630 – John Billington, one of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, becomes the first man executed in the English colonies. He is hanged for having shot another man during a quarrel
1787 – The Columbia left Boston and began the trip that would make it the first American vessel to sail around the world.
1846 – The first anesthetized tooth extraction is performed by Dr. William Morton in Charleston, Massachusetts.
1862 – Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck’s delivers his “Blood & Iron” speech
1882 – In Appleton, WI, the world’s first hydroelectric power plant began operating.
1936 – Spanish insurgents continue their march to the capital of Spain Madrid and large numbers of clergy have now joined the rebels in protests against the leftist controlled government
1938 – Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1949 – The Berlin Airlift is officially halted after 277,264 flights.
1955 – Actor and teen idol James Dean is killed in a car crash while driving his Porsche on his way to enter it into a race in Salinas, California.
1957 – The justice department attorneys are preparing to go before a federal grand jury to obtain indictments against the instigators of mob violence at central high school in Little Rock Arkansas.
1963 – Two men have been arrested for the bombing of a Black church that killed 4 young girls two weeks previously in Birmingham, Alabama
1964 – In Oxford, Mississippi, James H. Meredith, an African American and a former serviceman in the U.S. Air Force,, is escorted onto the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off a deadly riot over the desegregation of the University.
1965 – The 30 September Movement unsuccessfully attempts coup against Indonesian government; an anti-communist purge in the aftermath results in over 500,000 deaths.
1966 – Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.
1975 – The AH-64 Apache attack helicopter makes its first flight.
1986 – The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Nicholas Daniloff had been released by the Soviets.
1992 – Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.
1993 – U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell retired.
1997 – France’s Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1998 – US President Bill Clinton announces the country’s first budget surplus in almost thirty years. The projected Deficit for 2008 from the Congressional Budget Office is US $400 billion
2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
2007 – The Jewish community in India is angered after a company produces bedspreads entitled the �Nazi collection.� The brand included the swastika symbol next to the name. The company�s owner, Kapil Kumar Todi, argued that the word Nazi was used as an acronym for �New Arrival Zone of India� and the swastika symbol was also a symbol used in Hinduism.
2009 – Guy Laliberte, a Canadian billionaire, became the first clown to travel to outer space as a part of the space tourism program.
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