History for September 30

History for September 30 - On-This-Day.com
William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon, Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) 1921 - Actress ("The King and I", "Separate Tables"), Truman Capote (Streckfus Persons) 1924 - Writer (In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's), actor


Johnny Mathis 1935 - Singer, Marilyn McCoo 1943 - Singer (5th Dimension), TV hostess (Solid Gold), Fran Drescher 1957


1846 - Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient.


1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating.


1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.


1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.


1951 - "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV.


1954 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.


1983 - The first AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was rolled out by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company.


1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.