Today We Celebrate One Year

22 key events occuring on September 30th!

1. 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
2. 1781 - American War of Independance: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
3. 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
4. 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
5. 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
6. 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
7. 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
8. 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
9. 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
10. 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
11. 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
12. 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
13. 1947 - The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
14. 1960 - The Flintstones made their debut on primetime.
15. 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
16. 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
17. 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
18. 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
19. 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
20. 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
21. 2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
22. 2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia and kim1champ.blogspot.com is launched.