30 September 1668

A Sunday in history

Weekday

Sunday

Season

Autumn (N. Hemisphere)

Century

17th century

Records

357

  1. 2019

    President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

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  2. 2009

    A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.

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  3. 2005

    The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

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  4. 2000

    Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.

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  5. 1998

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

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  6. 1982

    Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.

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  7. 1975

    The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

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  8. 1955

    American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

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  9. 1939

    NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.

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  10. 1939

    Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

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  11. 1938

    Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

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  12. 1920

    Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.

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  13. 1918

    Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.

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  14. 1882

    The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.

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  15. 1863

    Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.

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  16. 1791

    Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.

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  17. 1551

    Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.

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  18. 1342

    An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.

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  19. 1139

    A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.

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  20. 737

    Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.

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