Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 30

This is a list of selected September 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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• Coat of Arms of the Republic of Botswana
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Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1982 – Tylenol Crisis: Cyanide-laced Tylenol killed a total of seven people in the Chicago area.	Tagged with {{articleissues}}
1991 – Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a coup d'état and replaced by General Raoul Cédras. A large-scale exodus of boat people ensued.	Tagged as {{POV}}

Eligible

• 1982 – The sitcom Cheers was first broadcast on American television.

September 30: Simchat Torah (Judaism, 2010); Independence Day in Botswana (1966)

• 1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown.

• 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The armies of France and Spain won a pyrrhic victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near Cuneo, Italy.

• 1791 – The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

• 1939 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

• 1955 – Film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California, US.

• 1966 – Seretse Khama became the first President of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.

• 2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Muslim world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

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• September 29
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• October 1