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1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.

1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.

1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.

1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

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

1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.

1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.

1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season

1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.

1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.

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

1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.

1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS ''Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

1960 - The Flinstones made their debut on primetime.

1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.

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

1962 - Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.

1965 - Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Communist Party of Indonesia. More than a million people died.

1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.

1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.

1967 - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.

1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

1972 - Major League Baseball: Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates collects his 3,000th and final hit. He would die in a plane crash on December 31, while carrying relief supplies to Nicaragua.

1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

1975 - Thrilla in Manila takes place between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali

1977 - Due to US Budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the moon are shut down.

1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. ).

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

1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.

1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.

1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.

1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.

1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.

2004 - AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.

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

2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".

2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

2006 - The West Coast Eagles defeated the Sydney Swans by 1 point in one of the closest AFL/VFL grand finals in history to win their 3rd ever premiership.

2006 - Trish Stratus gets married to Ron, her boyfriend of 14 years.

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1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)

1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)

1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)

1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)

1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)

1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)

1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)

1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)

1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804

1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)

1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)

1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)

1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)

1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)

1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)

1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District. (d. 1964)

1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)

1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)

1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)

1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)

1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)

1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)

1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)

1915 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)

1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)

1917 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (d. 1987)

1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)

1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general

1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)

1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player

1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet

1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress

1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)

1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player

1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer

1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer

1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer

1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)

1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)

1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer

1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order

1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.

1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)

1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)

1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician

1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)

1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author

1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter

1954 - Barry Williams, American actor

1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress

1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor

1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress

1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager

1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)

1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress

1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)

1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist

1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)

1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiator

1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress

1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author

1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress

1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer

1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer

1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler

1979 - Andy Van der Meyde, Dutch footballer

1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player

1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball player

1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress

1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor

1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model

1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian

1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress

1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast

1984 - Keisha Buchanan, British singer (Sugababes)

1984 - Megan Ewing, American model

1990 - Tobi Atkins, Australian actor

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420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible

653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury

1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan

1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)

1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician

1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)

1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)

1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)

1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)

1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)

1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)

1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)

1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat

1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)

1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)

1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)

1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)

1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)

1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)

1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)

1910 - Maurice Lévy, French enegineer (b. 1838)

1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)

1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)

1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)

1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)

1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)

1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)

1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)

1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)

1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)

1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)

1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)

2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)

2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)

2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)

2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)

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RC Saints - Saint Jerome

Botswana - Independence Day (1966)

São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day

French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

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September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)