User:Amakuru/Selected anniversaries/September 30

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 * 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribes attacked the Umayyad army's exposed baggage train, which had been sent ahead of the main force, and captured it.
 * 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
 * 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
 * 1955 – American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
 * 1965 – Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government, which was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
 * 1982 – Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
 * 1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
 * 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.
 * 2009 – A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
 * Born/died: | Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Fan Yanguang |d|940| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Decimus Burton |b|1800| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Basia |b|1954| Sonia Orbuch |d|2018