On This Day In History
This day 26 years ago - 30 September 1994 - Albert Reynolds and his delegation were left standing on the runway at Shannon Airport when Russian leader Boris Yeltsin failed to get off his plane for a scheduled meeting.
An official informed Reynolds that Yeltsin was “indisposed.” pic.twitter.com/CswKui2AZ6
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 30, 2020
This day 59 years ago – 30 September 1959 – the first feature-length Irish language film, Mise Éire, premiered as the closing film of the Cork Film Festival.
In attendance at the screening was Seán MacEntee, the then-Tánaiste.
Its title was taken from a poem by Patrick Pearse. pic.twitter.com/y8ruU1b8Eg
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 30, 2018
#OTD in 1969, Mierle Laderman Ukeles published her Manifesto for Maintenance Art, contrasting high art with the maintenance work - usually done by women - which "takes all the fucking time". She reconciled this by making domestic cleaning into art. https://t.co/ODbGPXFu91 pic.twitter.com/iJSu2uQxSi
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 30, 2022
On this day in 1919, enraged white mobs began a massacre of hundreds of innocent Black women, men, and children, after white men attempted to invade a Black farmer's union meeting. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/GywdLacOPx
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 30, 2022
30 September 1888. “Jack the Ripper” killed his 3rd and 4th victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. The body of Stride was found at 1 AM in Dutfield’s Yard, a dark yard off Berner Street, London. At 1 45 AM a policeman found the body Eddowess in Mitre Square, London. pic.twitter.com/M5PLrXfeKv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
30 September 1927. George Herman (known as “Babe Ruth”), became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. The 60th was made for the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium against Washington. Tom Zachary was the pitcher, and the home run came in the final game. pic.twitter.com/JftIihAdX0
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
30 September 1939. As part of war-time regulations, a system of Identity cards was introduced in Britain, with a legal requirement that every man, woman and child had to carry one, and if not, to produce it on demand or present it at a police station within 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/fEByUMCZpG
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
30 September 1967. BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4 were all launched. Tony Blackburn, a former pirate Radio Caroline DJ, presented the first Radio 1 show. The first pop hit he played on his breakfast show was Flowers in the Rain by The Move. pic.twitter.com/BwliDCjJ3Z
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
30 September 2016. Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, valued at $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen (pictured), and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, were recovered, after having been stolen in 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. pic.twitter.com/6s4M2voZUu
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Hollywood icon, James Dean, walking in the rain in Times Square, NYC. 📷 Dennis Stock (1955). pic.twitter.com/YTgUJBXbiu
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 30, 2022
30th September 2022 - DUBLIN FOOTBALL GREAT Brian Mullins has passed away at the age of 68 following a recent illness.
Mullins was regarded as one of the greatest midfielders in Gaelic football. He starred on Dublin teams that won All-Ireland senior finals in 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1983.
In addition to those four Sam Maguire successes, he won nine Leinster senior medals, was part of two National League triumphs and won All-Star awards in 1976 and 1977.
October 1st
331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela
1688 Prince Willem III of Orange accepts invitation of take up the British crown
1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, redraws Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte
1867 Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" in Berlin, a description of the capitalist system, its instability and tendency to self-destruction
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
1918 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union
Did You Know?
National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time
Today in History in 1888
Would You Believe?
Winston Churchill calls Russia a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
Today in History in 1939
This day 178 years ago – 1 October 1843 – Daniel O'Connell held the last of his “monster meetings”, in Mullaghmast, Co Kildare.
At the event, which half a million attended, O'Connell was given the green velvet and gold ‘Cap of Liberty’ created by John Hogan and Henry MacManus. pic.twitter.com/FdTMO4ylQh
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) October 1, 2021
#otd in 1984, Catalan anti-fascist Neus Català published Resistance and Deportation: 50 Testimonies of Spanish Women. Survivor of Nazi death camps and a saboteur in munitions factiories, she died aged 103. "We women were not assistants, we were fighters." https://t.co/7NvRigh7O6 pic.twitter.com/uqgGZxzO1R
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) October 1, 2022
On this day in 1939, a North Carolina sheriff arrested a young Black woman for shouting a warning to a young Black man in an attempt to save him from a white lynch mob of hundreds. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/anJCnSutQa
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) October 1, 2022
1 October 1910. J. B. McNamara, a trade union official, belonging to the International Association of Bridge, and Structural Iron Workers, planted a bomb that destroyed the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21 people. He was angry about the anti-Union stance of the newspaper. pic.twitter.com/mzFwlvQfPW
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 1, 2022
1 October 1946. The main International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death, 7 to prison sentences of various lengths, with 3 being acquitted. pic.twitter.com/2dVOqxTiot
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 1, 2022
1 October 1949. The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, at 3:00 PM in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the new capital of China. pic.twitter.com/6r8KzqK47J
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 1, 2022