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This is a list of selected September 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Coat of Arms of the Republic of Botswana
Ethernet card
8P8C Ethernet connector
Henry IV of England
James Dean
Hotel Ambacang, destroyed by the 2009 Sumatra earthquake
AH-64 Apache prototype
Władysław Sikorski

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Botswana (1966);	refimprove section
; Blasphemy Day	unsure if still being observed (see talk page)
1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown.	refimprove section
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The armies of France and Spain won a Pyrrhic victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near Cuneo, Italy.	needs more footnotes
1962 – Rioting broke out at the University of Mississippi in an attempt to stop the admission of James Meredith, resulting in two deaths.	Cn tags
1966 – Seretse Khama became the first president of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.	refimprove
1979 – Construction of the Kwun Tong line, the first line of Hong Kong's MTR rapid transit system, was completed.	refimprove section
1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology.	lots of CN tags (12)
2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.	refimprove section
Decimus Burton \|b\|1800\|	flamboyant tone

Eligible

737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
1551 – Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
1863 – Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
1882 – The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
1918 – Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1955 – American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
1965 – Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government that was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
1975 – The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
1982 – Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Muslim world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
2009 – A 7.6 M_W earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
2019 – President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
Born/died: | Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Fan Yanguang |d|940| Rumi |b|1207| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| John Thirtle |b|1839| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Charlotte Wolff |b|1897|Catie Ball |b|1951| Basia |b|1954| Drew Shafer|d|1989| Anwar al-Awlaki |d|2011|Sonia Orbuch |d|2018

Notes

Pilot (The Cosby Show) appears on September 20, so Cheers should not appear in the same year

September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

Times Square Theater

1139 – A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
2000 – Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.

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