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On September 30, 489: The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

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The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

The Ostrogoths were a Roman-era Germanic people who, in the 5th and 6th centuries, established one of the two major Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire. They drew on large Gothic populations settled in the Balkans since the 4th century and rose to prominence under Theodoric the Great, who in 493 founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy after defeating Odoacer.

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Born on September 30

Alberto Moleiro 2003– Spanish footballer (born 2003)
Levi Miller 2002– Australian actor and model
Maddie Ziegler 2002– American actress and dancer (born 2002)
Landon Dickerson 1998– American football player (born 1998)
Yui Imaizumi 1998– Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality
Trevi Moran 1998– American musician and YouTuber
Yana Kudryavtseva 1997– Russian rhythmic gymnast, World Champion, Olympic silver medalist
Max Verstappen 1997– Dutch and Belgian racing driver (born 1997)
Aaron Holiday 1996– American basketball player (born 1996)
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Aliya Mustafina 1994– Russian artistic gymnast (born 1994)
Bria Hartley 1992– French-American basketball player (born 1992)
Ezra Miller 1992– American actor (born 1992)
David Bakhtiari 1991– American football player (born 1991)
Joffrey Lauvergne 1991– French basketball player (born 1991)
Thomas Röhler 1991– German javelin thrower
Jasmine Thomas 1989– American basketball player (born 1989)
Natalie Eggermont 1988– Belgian politician (born 1988)
Aida Garifullina 1987– Russian lyric soprano (born 1987)

People

Died on September 30

Gavin Creel American actor, singer and songwriter (1976–2024)
Dikembe Mutombo Congolese-American basketball player (1966–2024)
Humberto Ortega Nicaraguan military leader (1947–2024)
Ken Page American actor and singer (1954–2024)
Pete Rose American baseball player (1941–2024)
Koichi Sugiyama Japanese composer and conductor (1931–2021)
Victoria Braithwaite British scientist (1967–2019)
Kim Larsen Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Geoffrey Hayes English television presenter and actor (1942–2018)
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Sonia Orbuch American educator and resistance fighter
Monty Hall Canadian-American game show host (1921–2017)
Vladimir Voevodsky Russian mathematician (1966–2017)
Guido Altarelli Italian theoretical physicist
Claude Dauphin French billionaire (1951–2015)
Göran Hägg Swedish writer
Martin Lewis Perl American scientist
Janet Powell Australian politician
Turhan Bey Austrian actor (1922–2012)

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Every September 30 on record

  1. 489 The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

    5th–6th-century Germanic ethnic group

    The Ostrogoths were a Roman-era Germanic people who, in the 5th and 6th centuries, established one of the two major Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire. They drew on large Gothic populations settled in the Balkans since the 4th century and rose to prominence under Theodoric the Great, who in 493 founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy after defeating Odoacer.

  2. 737 The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.

    Calendar year

    Year 737 (DCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 737 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming.

  3. 1139 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.

    Natural disaster in Azerbaijan and Georgia

    The 1139 Ganja earthquake was one of the worst seismic events in history. It affected the Seljuk Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia, in modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. 3 Mw.

  4. 1342 Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War.

    Battle during the Hundred Years' War

    The battle of Morlaix was fought near the village of Lanmeur in Brittany, France, on 30 September 1342 between an Anglo-Breton army and a much larger Franco-Breton force. England, at war with France since 1337 in the Hundred Years' War, had sided with John of Montfort's faction in the Breton Civil War shortly after it broke out in 1341. The French were supporting Charles of Blois, a nephew of the French king.

  5. 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.

    King of England from 1399 to 1413

    Henry IV, also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413, Lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and a grandson of King Edward III.

  6. 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  7. 1541 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
  8. 1551 A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
  9. 1736 The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.
  10. 1744 War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia.
  11. 1791 The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
  12. 1791 France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.
  13. 1863 Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.
  14. 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.
  15. 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
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  1. 1906 The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain.
  2. 1907 The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  3. 1909 The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  4. 1915 World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
  5. 1918 Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.
  6. 1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
  7. 1936 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.
  8. 1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  9. 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  10. 1939 World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
  11. 1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
  12. 1941 World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
  13. 1943 The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
  14. 1944 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.
  15. 1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

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