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UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014

Babe hits No. 60, devastating earthquakes and mudslides in Sumatra, a wave of car bombings in Iraq ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
A boy in a New York Yankees shirt points at a statue of Babe Ruth as two other young visitors look on at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., July 28, 2005. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2014 with 92 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars and Uranus. Evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus.


Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include Persian poet Rumi in 1207; chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. in 1861; German physicist Hans Geiger, co-inventor of the Geiger counter, in 1882; film director Lewis Milestone ("All Quiet on the Western Front") in 1895; singer Kenny Baker in 1912; drummer Buddy Rich in 1917; novelist Truman Capote in 1924; baseball Hall of Fame member Robin Roberts in 1926; actors Deborah Kerr in 1921 and Angie Dickinson in 1931 (age 83); Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel in 1928 (age 86); singers Johnny Mathis in 1935 (age 79), Frankie Lymon in 1942 and Marilyn McCoo in 1943 (age 71); actors Len Cariou in 1939 (age 75) and Victoria Tennant in 1950 (age 64); rock singer Marc Bolan in 1947; actors Jack Wild in 1952, Fran Drescher in 1957 (age 57), Eric Stoltz and Crystal Bernard, both in 1961 (age 53) and Jenna Elfman in 1971 (age 43), and tennis star Martina Hingis in 1980 (age 34).
On this date in history:
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In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies.

In 1846, a dentist in Charleston, Mass., extracted a tooth with the aid of an anesthetic -- ether. It was the first time an anesthetic had been used.

In 1927, Babe Ruth set a Major League Baseball record with his 60th home run of the season. (The mark would stand for 34 years.)

In 1938, Germany, France, Britain and Italy met in Munich, Germany, for a conference after which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain predicted "peace for our time." (World War II began less than one year later.)

In 1946, verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Twelve Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging.

In 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

In 1955, movie idol James Dean died in a car crash at age 24.

In 1962, James H. Meredith, an African-American, was escorted onto the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. marshals, setting off a riot in which two men died before violence was quelled by more than 3,000 soldiers. (Meredith enrolled the next day.)

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In 1992, the United States returned most of the Subic Bay Naval Base to the Philippine government after more than a century of use.

In 2008, thousands of worshipers making their way through a narrow passage to a Hindu temple in India for a religious festival broke into a stampede when a wall collapsed. Police put the death toll at 224 with more than 100 people injured.

In 2009, back-to-back earthquakes and mudslides hit Sumatra in Indonesia, leaving an official death toll of close to 1,200 and smashing thousands of homes.

In 2011, a missile from an American drone aircraft strike over Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic cleric linked to several high-profile terrorist incidents in the United States and subject of a two-year manhunt.

In 2013, another wave of car bombings in Iraq killed at least 51 people and injured 140. Officials said relentless violence in the country caused nearly 1,000 deaths in September.


A thought for the day: "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden

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