September 30 in history — What Happened Today in History

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

The Flintstones, the first prime-time animated sitcom, premieres on ABC television.

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

The Berlin Airlift ends.

The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

Pakistan joins the United Nations.

The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

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.

The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. The race takes 18 ½ days.

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

The Elaine massacre in Arkansas commences.

Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.

World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain.

Friedrich Nietzsche finished writing The Antichrist, with the 7 propositions Law Against Christianity, marked by him as a Day of Salvation, Day and Year 1 of a new calendar.

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.

Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.

The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

David Bakhtiari, American football player

Joffrey Lauvergne, French basketball player

Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower

Jasmine Thomas, American basketball player

Natalie Eggermont, Belgian politician

Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano

Kenley Jansen, Curaçaoan baseball player

Jarron Gilbert, American footballer

Olivier Giroud, French footballer

Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer

Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter

Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer

Adam Cooney, Australian footballer

Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (born 1966)

Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (born 1941)

Claude Dauphin, French businessman (born 1951)

Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (born 1947)

Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (born 1942)

Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (born 1922)

Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (born 1917)

Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (born 1948)

Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (born 1913)

Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (born 1928)

Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (born 1956)

Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (born 1971)