WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. SEPTEMBER
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Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy). (30. September 489)

Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train. (30. September 737)

Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. (30. September 1399)

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. (30. September 1541)

France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo. (30. September 1744)

The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria. (30. September 1791)

The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots". (30. September 1791)

Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla. (30. September 1813)

Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside. (30. September 1860)

Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. (30. September 1882)

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. (30. September 1888)

Madagascar becomes a French protectorate. (30. September 1895)

The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. (30. September 1903)

The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana. (30. September 1906)

McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio. (30. September 1907)

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. (30. September 1927)

Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa. (30. September 1931)

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. (30. September 1935)

At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. (30. September 1938)

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". (30. September 1938)

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