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9/30/2015
« on: September 30, 2015, 12:01:15 AM »
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2015, 01:39:45 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2015, 01:47:49 AM »
Today is Wednesday, September 30, the 273rd day of 2015. There are 92 days left in the year.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2015, 01:48:53 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:
On September 30, 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, California.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2015, 01:49:19 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2015, 01:51:22 AM »
In 1399, England's King Richard II was deposed by Parliament; he was succeeded by his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, who was crowned as King Henry IV.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2015, 01:52:02 AM »
In 1777, the Continental Congress — forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — moved to York, Pennsylvania.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2015, 01:52:31 AM »
In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2015, 01:53:12 AM »
In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2015, 01:53:40 AM »
In 1915, the D.H. Lawrence novel "The Rainbow" was published in London by Methuen & Co.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2015, 01:54:32 AM »
In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said, "I believe it is peace for our time."
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2015, 01:55:06 AM »
In 1939, the first college football game to be televised was shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeated Waynesburg College, 34-7.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2015, 01:55:43 AM »
In 1949, the Berlin Airlift came to an end.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2015, 01:56:14 AM »
In 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
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Re: 9/30/2015
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2015, 01:56:49 AM »
In 1962, James Meredith, a black student, was escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolled for classes the next day; Meredith's presence sparked rioting that claimed two lives. The National Farm Workers Association, founded by Cesar Chavez and a forerunner of the United Farm Workers, held its first meeting in Fresno, California.
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