12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for September 30, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1791 – Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna.
- 1888 – Jack the Ripper’s “double event” murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes occur in London.
- 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
- 1938 – After the Munich Agreement, Neville Chamberlain declares “peace for our time.”
- 1947 – First World Series game is broadcast on television (Yankees vs. Dodgers).
- 1949 – The Berlin Airlift officially ends after 15 months.
- 1954 – USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned.
- 1955 – Actor James Dean dies in a car crash near Cholame, California.
- 1960 – The Flintstones debuts in prime time TV.
- 1962 – Riots erupt as James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).
- 2005 – Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten publishes cartoons of Muhammad, sparking a global controversy.
- 2022 – Vladimir Putin signs accession treaties to annex four occupied Ukrainian regions.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1957 – Fran Drescher, actress and former SAG-AFTRA president (68).
- 1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and model (61).
- 1975 – Marion Cotillard, Academy Award–winning actress (50).
- 1980 – Martina Hingis, former world No. 1 tennis player (45).
- 1982 – Kieran Culkin, Emmy- and Oscar-winning actor (43).
- 1984 – T-Pain, singer/producer (41).
- 1997 – Max Verstappen, Formula One world champion (28).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1948 – Edith Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady (Theodore Roosevelt) (87).
- 1955 – James Dean, film actor (Rebel Without a Cause) (24). Wikipedia+1
- 1985 – Simone Signoret, Oscar-winning French actress (64). Wikipedia
- 1990 – Patrick White, Nobel Prize–winning Australian novelist (78).
- 1998 – Dan Quisenberry, MLB All-Star relief pitcher (45). Wikipedia
- 2003 – Robert Kardashian, attorney in the O.J. Simpson case (59).
- 2017 – Monty Hall, longtime host of Let’s Make a Deal (96). Wikipedia+1
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