Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 30

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 * 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
 * 1551 – Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
 * 1863 – Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
 * 1882 – The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
 * 1918 – Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
 * 1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
 * 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
 * 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 that 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.
 * 1975 – The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
 * 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.
 * 2019 – President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
 * Born/died: | Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Fan Yanguang |d|940| Rumi |b|1207| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| John Thirtle |b|1839| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Charlotte Wolff |b|1897|Catie Ball |b|1951| Basia |b|1954| Drew Shafer|d|1989| Anwar al-Awlaki |d|2011|Sonia Orbuch |d|2018