On This Day in History for September 30
Events in History
- 489 Germanic King of Italy Odoacer attacks Ostrogothic leader Theodoric the Great at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again
- 1124 Orval abbey church consecrated in southeast Belgium
- 1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
- 1399 King Richard II of England's (supposed) abdication read out in the House of Commons by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In reality deposed by his cousin and successor Henry IV
- 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)
- 1544 King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
- 1555 Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
- 1619 Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
- More Events in History
Jacques Necker
Reinhard Scheer
Truman Capote
Elie WieselWeddings in History
- 1939 Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding (28) weds analytic chemist Ann Brookfield
- 1950 First Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew (27) weds lawyer Kwa Geok Choo (29) in Singapore
- 1977 "Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard
More Weddings in History
George Whitefield
Edith RooseveltSeptember in History
Norman Invasion of England
William the Conqueror and his army land at Pevensey as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
September 28, 1066
Major Effect of a Miniature Portrait
He fought many a battle but the warrior Clive of India, born on this day, was brought to his knees by a small picture of a beautiful woman.
September 29, 1725
Italo-Turkish War
Italian airships bomb Turkish positions. The Italo-Turkish War was the first conflict to feature aerial bombardment.
September 29, 1911
Nuremberg Trials
Hermann Goering on trial at the Nuremberg Trials. He would later be sentenced to death, but committed suicide the night before his sentence was to be carried out.
September 30, 1946