September 30 is day 273 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Pungenday, Bureaucracy 54, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.15.14 by the Mayan Long Count

On this day in history:

September 30, 1791, was he first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
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On September 30, 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric plant began operation

On September 30,1935, the Hoover Dam was dedicated. The dam created Lake Mead, a huge reservoir backed up behind it, and was the cause of the creation of Boulder City, Nevada, which was built to house and serve those working on the dam during its construction.

September 30, 1938, was the date of the infamous Munich Agreement between Britain, France, Germany and Italy allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland, previously part of Czechoslovakia, which was not party to the agreement. What remained of Czechoslovakia was quickly divvied up by assorted other countries, and, of course, Germany too, with the result that it simply evaporated from existence.

September 30, 1941, was the second and final day of the Babi Yar massacre. Pursuant to a decision and order to kill all of the Jews in Kiev, German soldiers, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and other Ukrainian Nazis and collaborators killed approximately 33,771 Jews in a 2 day massacre. Ukrainian participation and the Ukrainian participants in this and other genocidal operations in Russia have generally been given a pass by the Western Allies and western historians because the victims, though Jews, were also goldurn no good dirty Russkies.

On September 30, 1943, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was dedicated by FDR. Created largely in response to the disastrous 1934 SS Morro Castle fire. This institution should not be confused with the California Maritime Acadamy created in 1929, which is still the only degree granting Maritima Academy on the West Coast because reasons.

On September 30, 1954, the world's first nuke powered ship, appropriately enough, a warship, the USS Nautilus, was commissioned.

On September 30, 1962, Caesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association AND

James Meredith entered the U. of Mississippi despite rules mandating racial segregation. (Queue Phil Ochs).

Born this day in:

1207 – Rumi, a renowned Persian mystic and poet. It seems, however, that his long form birth certificate is missing, generating some uncertainty around the particulars of his birth.
1765 – José María Morelos, priest and revolutionary leader who took over after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
1814 – Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, feminist, educator, and writer
1832 – Ann Jarvis, activist, community organizer, and co-founder of Mother's Day.
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, physicist and chemist
1882 – Hans Geiger, physicist
1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, civil engineer, architect, and suffragist
1897 – Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychotherapist, wrote influential works on lesbianism and sexuality and dreck on hand analysis

1901 – Thelma Terry, bassist and bandleader
1917 – Buddy Rich, drummer, bandleader, and actor
1924 – Truman Capote, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1928 – Elie Wiesel, author and activist
1933 – Cissy Houston, singer
1935 – Johnny Mathis, singer and actor
1940 – Dewey Martin, drummer
1942 – Gus Dudgeon, record producer
1942 – Frankie Lymon, singer and songwriter
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, singer
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, singer and songwriter
1947 – Marc Bolan, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Glam Rock)
1952 – John Lombardo, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1953 – Matt Abts, drummer
1954 – Basia, singer, songwriter, and record producer
1954 – Scott Fields, guitarist, bandleader, and composer
1954 – Patrice Rushen, singer, songwriter, and producer
1958 – Marty Stuart, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1977 – Nick Curran, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Died this day in:

1977 – Mary Ford, singer and guitarist
1985 – Charles Francis Richter, seismologist and physicist
2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, prominent anti-US propagandist accused of being more; the first US citizen assassinated without due process by drone strike. In separate attacks, the US subsequently killed his teenage son and 8 year old daughter, both also US citizens and neither of whom had been accused on anything. Do not say bad things about the US.

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
International Translation Day

Music goes here, iirc, well,

Image is sign language

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