Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Today is the 273rd day of 2026. There are 92 days left in this year.
Notable Events
1791
Mozart's opera ''The Magic Flute'' premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1846
Dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time on a patient in his Boston office.
1927
New York Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season to break his own major-league record; it stood until Roger Maris of the Yankees hit 61 homers in 1961.
1938
British and French leaders agreed to allow Nazi Germany to occupy sections of the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia.
1946
An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1949
The Berlin Airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1954
The first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, was commissioned by the Navy.
1962
Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1986
The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Soviets released Nicholas Daniloff.
1992
George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1993
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern India, killing an estimated 10,000 people.
1997
France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1999
The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last baseball game at Candlestick Park (3Com Park); the Dodgers won 9-4.
Notable Deaths
1955
Actor James Dean was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.