September 30

Today in History
• 1520 - Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan
• 1555 - Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
• 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia, Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo
• 1787 - 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
• 1808 - Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire in London
• 1841 - Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
• 1846 - Anesthetic ether is used for the 1st time
• 1864 - Black soldiers given US Medal of Honor
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Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Botswana Day
• Fiesta de San Jerónimo in Nicaragua
• International Translation Day
• National Ghost Hunting Day
• Rumi Day
• Save The Koala Day
• Save Your Photos Day
• Thunderbirds Day

Birthdays
• 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet
• 1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials
• 1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
• 1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary
• 1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress
• 1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician, Treasurer of the US
• 1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of the Geiger counter)
• 1915 - Lester Maddox, American politician (Governor-D-Georgia 1967-71)