September 30: History Today.
Birth History Today-
William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon |
| William Wrigley Jr.: Wrigley's Chewing Gum Founder |
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| Police Woman (TV series) |
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| The Nanny | TV Series (1993 - 1999) |
Martina Hingis 1980
General History Today-
1846 - Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.1927 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth hit his 60th homerun of the season. He broke his own record with the homerun. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.
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| Babe Ruth |
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
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| Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where the International Military Tribunal tried 22 leading German officials for war crimes. Nuremberg, November 1945. |
1947 - The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
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| Cheers title screen |
1987 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
2006 - In Brazil, a Brazilian jetliner clipped a smaller executive jet and then crashed into the Amazon rain forest. All 155 people aboard were killed. The smaller jet was able to land at a local air force base.
2009 - An 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami near the Samoan Islands. Many communities and harbors in Samoa and American Samoa were destroyed. At least 189 people were killed.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
Disaster History Today-
1982 - In the Chicago area, seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide. About 31 million bottles of Tylenol were eventually taken off the market. (September 29-October 1)2006 - In Brazil, a Brazilian jetliner clipped a smaller executive jet and then crashed into the Amazon rain forest. All 155 people aboard were killed. The smaller jet was able to land at a local air force base.
2009 - An 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami near the Samoan Islands. Many communities and harbors in Samoa and American Samoa were destroyed. At least 189 people were killed.
Death History Today-
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Pope John Paul I |
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