September 30th, 1944

Born on September 30th, 1944

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What happened on September 30th, 1944?

September 30th, 1944

World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nijmegen_salient

What else happened on September 30th?

September 30th, 2019

President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

September 30th, 2005

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

September 30th, 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.

September 30th, 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.

September 30th, 1982

Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.

September 30th, 1975

The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

September 30th, 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.

September 30th, 1955

American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

September 30th, 1939

Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

September 30th, 1938

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

September 30th, 1920

Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.

September 30th, 1918

Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.

September 30th, 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.

September 30th, 1863

Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 30th

Born on September 30th, 1944

61

Jimmy Johnstone

Scottish footballer (1944-2006)

*September 30th, 1944, Uddingston †March 13th, 2006, Uddingston

81

Jean-Louis Debré

French politician

*September 30th, 1944, Toulouse

65

Red Robbins

American basketball player (1944-2009)

*September 30th, 1944, Leesburg †November 18th, 2009, Metairie

75

Bernard Debré

French politician (1944-2020)

*September 30th, 1944, Toulouse †September 13th, 2020, 14th arrondissement of Paris

81

Thomas Peterffy

American businessman

*September 30th, 1944, Budapest

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Born in 1944

81

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

82

Joachim Schimpke

German badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

81

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

81

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

81

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

82

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

82

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

82

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer, actress, and composer (1944–2024)

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris †June 11th, 2024, American Hospital of Paris

81

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

82

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

82

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

82

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

81

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer (1944–2017)

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

82

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of the Republic of Ghana

*March 29th, 1944, Accra

82

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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