09-30-2006, 07:42 AM
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September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-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 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor.
1960 ~ The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired.
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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