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30 Sep 1883

Bernhard Rust was born in Hannover, Germany.
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30 Sep 1895

Aleksandr Vasilevsky was born in Novaya Golchikha, Kineshma Uyezd, Russia; his birth was also recorded as 18 Sep 1895 in the old style.
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30 Sep 1914

Erwin Rommel was hospitalized for the thigh wound he sustained in action on 24 Sep. He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class medal for the action.
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30 Sep 1920

Quintin Brand began studies at Cambridge University in Britain.
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McFarland was commissioned into service.
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30 Sep 1921

Tony Stein was born.
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30 Sep 1930

Dorsetshire was commissioned into service.
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30 Sep 1931

Lieutenant General Xi Qia, collaborating with the Japanese, announced that Jilin Province, China was now independent from the Republic of China and was under protection of the Japanese Army.
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30 Sep 1934

Erwin Rommel met Adolf Hitler for the first time.
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Reich Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht reported to Adolf Hitler on his progress of planning the German economy for war.
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30 Sep 1936

Mutsu completed her reconstruction at Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan.
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30 Sep 1937

Yorktown (Yorktown-class) was commissioned into service.
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30 Sep 1938

Shortly after midnight, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Édouard Daladier signed, in that order, the Munich Agreement which ceded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany; the actual document was backdated to the previous day, 29 Sep 1938. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, outside 10 Downing Street in London, Chamberlain announced that "I believe it is peace for our time".
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Historical document written: Messages from Andor Hencke to Kamil Krofta
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Historical document written: Meeting Minutes of International Commission on Sudetenland, 30 Sep 1938
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30 Sep 1939

French forces on the French-German border fell back to the Maginot Line in anticipation of a German invasion.
Reinhard Heydrich became the leader of new Reich Main Security Office, RSHA.
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Deaths in automobile accidents in Britain at night in the month of Sep 1939 increased from 617 in the previous month to 1,130; night time blackout was blamed.
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30 Sep 1940

4 German raids, each consisting of 60 to 200 bombers and escorted by large numbers of fighters, crossed into southern England, United Kingdom at 0900, 1000, 1300, and 1600 hours; some got through to London, but some did not drop their bombs as they had little visibility due to low clouds, overshooting their targets as radar operators misread the Knickebein radio beacon signals. Meanwhile, 2 groups of about 100 bombers each attacked cities on the southern coast. On this day, the Germans lost 14 bombers, 28 Bf 109 fighters, and 1 Bf 110 fighter, while the British lost 19 fighters with 8 pilots killed. Today's daylight attacks would represent the last major raids of such type conducted by the Luftwaffe. Overnight, London, Liverpool, and several others cities were bombed; the aircraft factory at Yeovil was attacked but was only lightly damaged as most bombs fell on the town instead.
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British monitor HMS Erebus fired 17 15-inch shells at German gun emplacements near Calais from the Strait of Dover, escorted by destroyers HMS Vesper and HMS Garth.
British armed yacht HMY Sappho and minesweeping trawler HMT Comet were sunk by German mines laid by destroyers Eckholdt, Riedel, Lody, Galster, Ihn, and Steinbrinck on 28 Sep off Falmouth in southwestern England. 29 and 15 were killed, respectively.
German submarine U-37 sank British ship Samala 300 miles west of Ireland at 1013 hours, killing everyone aboard (65 crew, 1 gunner, and 2 passengers). At 2156 hours, in the same area, U-37 sank British ship Heminge, killing 1; 24 crew and 1 gunner were rescued by British merchant ship Clan Cumming.
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Hugh Dowding was made Knight Grand Commander of the Order of Bath.
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Georg von Bismarck was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
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Thomas Adlerson of British Air Raid Precautions was gazetted for a George Cross award for the daring and skillful rescue of many civilians in Bridlington in Aug 1940.
USS Arizona arrived at Long Beach, California, United States.
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30 Sep 1941

The RAF withdrew B-17 bombers from service.
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Chinese troops at Changsha declared victory at the Second Battle of Changsha after pushing Japanese troops back to the Yueyang region.
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The German Operation Typhoon got an unofficial start when Guderian's Panzergruppe 2 attacked two days ahead of the rest of the operation.
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The detention center in Peel, Isle of Man had its guard forces strengthened after disturbances; 20 arrested British fascists were transferred to Liverpool as another result.
Italian submarine Adua attacked British ships sailing for Malta to Gibraltar (having just completed escorting the Operation Halberd on the previous day) 250 miles east of Gibraltar. British destroyers HMS Gurkha and HMS Legion counterattacked with depth charges, sinking the Italian submarine, killing all 46 aboard.
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The leadership of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet began to consider evacuating forces in Odessa, Ukraine to nearby Crimean Peninsula.
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British bombers attacked Stettin and Hamburg in Germany after sundown for the second consecutive night.
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The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 366 adult male, 483 adult female, and 597 children, all Jews, were killed in Trakai, Lithuania for a total of 1,446 people.
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Pierre Laval was discharged from the hospital after recovering from the wounds sustained during the unsuccessful assassination attempt against him on 25 Aug 1941.
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German bombers attacked shipyards at Tyneside in northern England, United Kingdom; submarine HMS Sunfish was badly damaged during the attack.
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30 Sep 1942

Adolf Hitler publicly repeated his forecast of the destruction of the Jewry.
Soviet troops crossed the Volga River near Moscow, Russia.
Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Rudolf Höss forbade his SS guards to consume raw fruits, raw vegetables, and raw milk due to the typhus epidemic in the camp.
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A transport containing 610 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands; 37 men and 118 women were registered into the camp, and the remaining 454 were gassed.
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Battleships of US Navy Task Force 1 arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
After a dive bomber escorting mission, the engine of Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109G fighter caught fire. Unable to make it back to his airfield due to black smoke entering the cockpit, he attempted to bail out, but while doing so he struck the vertical stabilizer. He fell to his death 7 kilometers south of Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt.
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Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Shirakumo at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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30 Sep 1943

The Soviet Dneiper bridgehead in southern Ukraine expanded to a 300-mile frontage.
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazi members began rounding up Danish Jews. A Danish businessman passed the news of the operation and passed the information to the Danish resistance, which then arranged fishing boats to ferry a large number of Danish Jews to Sweden.
USS Hoe fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese freighter; all torpedoes missed.
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30 Sep 1944

The last of the German guns at Calais, France that had been shelling the Dover, England, United Kingdom for three years was destroyed. Shortly after, the 7,500 German garrison at Calais surrendered to Canadian troops.
Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
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USS Blackfin departed from Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol.
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Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Sasebo, Japan for a scheduled overhaul.
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30 Sep 1945

US Marines landed in Tanggu, Tianjin, China and began to move toward Beiping.
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30 Sep 1949

USS Sea Cat was redesignated AGSS-399.
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30 Sep 1953

Lieutenant Commander J. O. House, Jr. relieved Commander W. P. Murphy at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States as the commanding officer of USS Carbonero.
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