[Today] september 30 To remember 12 events
01) 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
02) 1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
03) 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
04) 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
05) 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
06) 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
07) 1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
08) 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
09) 1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
10) 1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
11) 1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
12) 2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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