September 30
Today in America's Present Past
1631 | Judge William Stoughton was born.
1649 | Civil Rights: Tennis is forbidden, its first American mention, during religious events by Peter Stuyvesant.
1770 | Cleric George Whitefield died.
1777 | War of Independence: Continental Congress flees to escape advancing British occupiers.
1841 | Inventor Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1846 | Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by a U.S. dentist.
1857 | SCOTUS: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns.
1861 | Entrepreneur William Wrigley Jr., was born.
1864 | Civil War: Thirteen Black soldiers among soldiers to be honored with the US Medal of Honor.
1867 | Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession.
1870 | Entrepreneur Thomas W. Lamont was born.
1877 | Nez Perce leader Toohoolhoolzote died.
1880 | Amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the first-ever photograph of the Orion Nebula.
1895 | Stephen Crane’s novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is published to wide acclaim.
1917 | Inventor Irving B. Kahn was born.
1919 | Civil Rights: Elaine Massacre.
1924 | Novelist Truman Capote was born.
1928 | Author Elie Wiesel was born.
1934 | Baseball Pro Babe Ruth’s final game.
1935 | Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt opens the Hoover Dam (Boulder at the time).
1946 | Mathematician William Thurston was born.
1946 | The U.S. led the Nuremberg trials, sentencing 22 Nazi leaders to death.
1948 | First Lady Edith Roosevelt died.
1953 | SCOTUS: Justice Earl Warren appointed Chief.
1955 | Actor James Dean died in a car crash.
1957 | Actress Fran Drescher was born.
1960 | TV: “The Flintstones” debuted.
1961 | Actor Eric Stoltz was born.
1962 | Activist César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers.
1968 | Trumpeter Mikes Davis weds Betty Mabry.
1969 | Pro wrestler Chris Von Erich was born.
1975 | Author Ta-Nehisi Coates was born.
1978 | Pro wrestler Candice Michelle was born.
1982 | Actor Kieran Culkin was born.
1984 | Musician T-Pain was born.
1985 | Seismologist Charles F. Richter died.
1985 | Graphic artist Herbert Bayer died.
2014 | Aviator Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock died.
2024 | Baseball Pro Pete Rose died.