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September 30th

Events

* 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
* 1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
* 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
* 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
* 1962 - César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
* 1965 - Civil unrest followed a failed c'oup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
* 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago, Illinois area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
* 1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
* 1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
* 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.



Births

* 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Sufi mystic and poet (d. 1273)
* 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
* 1924 - Truman Capote, author (d. 1984)
* 1935 - Johnny Mathis, singer
* 1942 - Frankie Lymon, singer (d.1962)
* 1947 - Marc Bolan, musician (d. 1977)
* 1954 - Barry Williams, actor, The Brady Bunch
* 1982 - Lacey Chabert, actress





Deaths

* 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
* 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
* 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
* 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
* 1955 - James Dean, American actor
* 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (b. 1953)