Historical Events on September 30.

1. International Translation Day

2. 1399, 30th September: Henry IV became King of England.

3. 1860, 30th September: Britain’s first tram service began.

4. 1882, 30th September: Water power was first used to produce electricity at a plant on the Fox River near Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

5. 1895, 30th September: France annexed Madagascar.

6. 1935, 30th September: Hoover Dam was completed.

7. 1947, 30th September: Pakistan and Yemen joined the United Nations.

8. 1949, 30th September: Mao Tse-tung formally became the chairman of the People’s Republic of China.

9. 1954, 30th September: The launched of the first nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S. S. Nautilus.

10. 1961, 30th September: The first match of the Duleep Trophy is played at Madras (Chennai).

11. 1966, 30th September: Botswana gained independence from the United Kingdom.

12. 1993, 30th September: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake stroked Latur, India, killing more than 9,000 people. 

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 30.

1. 1207: Rumi, the Persian mystic and poet.

2. 1832: Anna Maria Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day in the United States.

3. 1900: M. C. Chagla, Judge, diplomat, and Union Minister.

4. 1919: Firoz Dastur, an Indian film actor and an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana.

5. 1922: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director.

6. 1928: Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

7. 1934: Anna Kashfi, Indian-British film actress.

8. 1939: Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.

9. 1941: Kamlesh Sharma, Indian diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary-General.

10. 1943: Johann Deisenhofer, a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

11. 1955: Andy Bechtolsheim, German electrical engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

12. 1933: Prabhakar Pandit, musician, and violinist.

13. 1964: Monica Bellucci, an Italian actress, and model.

14. 1970: Deepa Malik, Indian athlete. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and won a Silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put.

15. 1972: Shantanu Mukherjee (Shaan), Indian playback singer.

16. 1980: Martina Hingis, a Swiss tennis player.

17. 1986: Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer.

18. 1997: Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula 1 driver.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 30.

1. 1694: Marcello Malpighi, an Italian physician.

2. 1985: Charles Richter, American geologist.

3. 1998: Chandratai Kirloskar, an Indian activist.

4. 2001: Madhavrao Shinde, former Indian Union Railway Minister, Civil Aviation Minister.

5. 2003 – Yusuf Bay, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery. 

6. 2011: Ralph Marvin Steinman, Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University.

7. 2014: Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric, and politician.

30-September-1207

Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born.

30-September-1687

Aurangzeb acquired the famous Golconda fort near Hyderabad from the Qutub Shahi Sultan Tana Shah due to the treachery of his General Panni.

30-September-1881

Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu.

30-September-1894

Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born.

30-September-1900

Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born.

30-September-1916

Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P.

30-September-1922

Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab).

30-September-1943

Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died.

30-September-1961

Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay.

30-September-1963

The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives.

30-September-1972

Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.

30-September-1981

Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.

30-September-1989

INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.

30-September-1990

Former Dy PM Devilal submits his letter of resignation.

30-September-1992

Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award.

30-September-1996

Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.

30-September-1996

Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996.

30-September-1996

PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve.

30-September-1996

Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

30-September-1997

24th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.

30-September-1997

At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.

30-September-1997

Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.

30-September-1999

India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.

30-September-1999

Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.

30-September-1999

A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.

30-September-2000

Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.

30-September-2000

India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.

30-September-2000

The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.