8 Mehr 1385

Events

• 1863 (163 years ago) Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.
• 1882 (144 years ago) Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
• 1919 (107 years ago) The Elaine massacre in Arkansas commences.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
• 1947 (79 years ago) Pakistan joins the United Nations.
• 1966 (60 years ago) Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

Births

• 1207 (819 years ago) Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
• 1964 (62 years ago) Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
• 1975 (51 years ago) Marion Cotillard, French actress and singer
• 1986 (40 years ago) Olivier Giroud, French footballer
• 1997 (29 years ago) Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver

Deaths

• 420 (1606 years ago) Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint
• 1897 (129 years ago) Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (born 1873)
• 1955 (71 years ago) James Dean, American actor (born 1931)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Simone Signoret, French actress (born 1921)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (born 1900)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

All 360 events, births and deaths of September 30