09-30-2005, 05:08 AM
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September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & the inventor of the Geiger counter.
1896 ~ Madagascar became a French protectorate.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor.
1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood).
1938 ~ The League of Nations unanimously outlawed "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1960 ~ The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired.
1982 ~ Cheers premiered.
1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office.
1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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