Tuesday, September 30, 2014

History for September 30

History for September 30 - On-This-Day.com
William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon, Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) 1921 - Actress ("The King and I", "Separate Tables"), Truman Capote (Streckfus Persons) 1924 - Writer (In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's), actor 


Angie Dickinson 1931 - Actress (Police Woman, Cassie and Company), Johnny Mathis 1935 - Singer, Marilyn McCoo 1943 - Singer (5th Dimension), TV hostess (Solid Gold) 


1846 - Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient. 


1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating. 


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. 


1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis. 


1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. 


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.
$65,000?!!! 

1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade. 


1954 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954. 


1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register. 


1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war. 


1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV. 


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. 

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