Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 30

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  Coat of Arms of the Republic of Botswana
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  Ethernet card
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  8P8C Ethernet connector
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  Henry IV of England
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  James Dean
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  Hotel Ambacang, destroyed by the 2009 Sumatra earthquake
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  Times Square Theater
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  Władysław Sikorski

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Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Botswana (1966);	refimprove section
; Blasphemy Day	unsure if still being observed (see talk page)
1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed [[Richard II of England|Template:Nowrap]] to become [[Henry IV of England|Template:Nowrap of England]], merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown.	refimprove section
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The armies of France and Spain won a Pyrrhic victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near Cuneo, Italy.	needs more footnotes
1962 – Rioting broke out at the University of Mississippi in an attempt to stop the admission of James Meredith, resulting in two deaths.	Cn tags
1966 – Seretse Khama became the first president of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.	refimprove
1979 – Construction of the Kwun Tong line, the first line of Hong Kong's MTR rapid transit system, was completed.	refimprove section
1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology.	lots of CN tags (12)
2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.	refimprove section
Decimus Burton |b|1800|	flamboyant tone

Eligible

• 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
• 1955 – American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
• 1975 – The [[Boeing AH-64 Apache|Boeing Template:Nowrap Apache]] (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
• 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.

• 1139 – A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
• 1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
• 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.
• 1918 – Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
• 1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
• 1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
• 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
• 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2019 – President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

• Born/died: | Rumi |b|1207| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Peter Ward |b|1827| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Charlotte Wolff |b|1897| Basia |b|1954| Noriyuki Higashiyama|b|1966| Drew Shafer|d|1989| Anwar al-Awlaki |d|2011| Jessye Norman |d|2019|

Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Marion Cotillard|b|1975| Wopke Hoekstra |b|1975| Levi Miller |b|2002| Sonia Orbuch |d|2018|

Notes

• Pilot (The Cosby Show) appears on September 20, so Cheers should not appear in the same year

September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada; Martyrs' Day in China Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1342 – An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
• 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.
• 1863 – Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
• 1982 – Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
• 2009 – A Template:Nowrap earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated Template:Nowrap people.