Day's Calendar – September 30

The 274th day of the year; 92 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Martyrs: Pistis, Elpis, and Agape, and their mother Sophia (c. 137); Martyrs Theodotia (c. 230) and Agathoclia. The 156 Martyrs: Bishops Peleus and Nilus (Egyptians), Presbyter Zeno, Patermuthius, Elias, and others (c. 310).

Born:

1707 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter, a master of the Rococo style.

1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist.

1891 – Otto Schmidt, Russian scientist, one of the organizers of the development of the Northern Sea Route.

1922 – Anatoly Papanov, Russian actor.

1927 – Tengiz Amirejibi, pianist, professor.

1930 – Zurab Kukhianidze, poet. Died in 2003.

Died:

1435 – Isabella of Bavaria, Queen of France. 1955 – Michael Chekhov, actor, nephew of the writer Anton Chekhov.

1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist, creator of the earthquake magnitude scale.

1985 – Simone Signoret, French film actress.

1999 – Dmitry Likhachev, Russian literary scholar and academician.

Events:

1630 – The first American criminal was sentenced; he was hanged for murder.

1783 – The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded.

1791 – The premiere of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute took place in Vienna.

1928 – British scientist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

1946 – The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (Germany) began announcing the verdicts against German Nazis.

1967 – The first automatic docking of Soviet spacecraft took place in space. 1980 – The Soviet Union conducted nuclear explosions at Semipalatinsk.

1982 – Violinist Vladimir Spivakov founded the "Moscow Virtuosi" ensemble.

1993 – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake in India killed 28,000 people.

Notable days:

Marshall Islands – Tradition Day.