Here are the events that happened on September 30:
- 1882 – The world’s first hydroelectric power plant began operating in Appleton, WI.
- 1963 – USSR publicly declared to support India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
- 1965 – There was an attempted Coup in Indonesia by the so-called 30 September Movement.
- 1971 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
- 1977 – The Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon were shut down due to America’s budget cut.
- 1980 – Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
- 1980 – Iran rejected a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
- 1982 – The 12th Commonwealth Games open in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1986 – America released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the release of Nicholas Daniloff by the Soviets.
- 1990 – South Korea and the USSR opened diplomatic relations.
- 1993 – 28,000 people were killed in a 6.4 earthquake in Latur, India.
- 1994 – Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was elected president of Burundi
- 1997 – The Roman Catholic Church in France apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews in the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
- 1997 – Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4.
- 1998 – American President Bill Clinton announced the country’s first budget surplus in almost thirty years.
- 2008 – Doctors were allowed by the government of Iraq to have guns for self-defense after complaints from medical workers.
- 2011 – Serbian authorities banned a gay pride parade, citing fears that it would incite violence.
- 2013 – A series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 54 people.
- 2014 – Amazon filed for a patent for a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) configured to deliver items to its customers autonomously.
- 2014 – The first case of the Ebola Virus reached Dallas, Texas.