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What happened on September 30 in American history
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (the 274th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from September 30 spanning 1907 to 1998. Among them: in 1907, McKinley comes home to Canton; Roosevelt dedicates his tomb on the hill; and in 1935, Roosevelt dedicates the great dam on the Colorado, two years ahead of schedule.
1907Member story · 1776 Club
McKinley comes home to Canton; Roosevelt dedicates his tomb on the hill
Six years after the assassination, the president and his wife are entombed together above ground in green granite.
1935Member story · 1776 Club
Roosevelt dedicates the great dam on the Colorado, two years ahead of schedule
He calls it Boulder Dam; the man whose name it once bore is not on the podium.
1949
The last plane lands, and Operation Vittles is over
Fifteen months, 278,228 flights, and 2.3 million tons of coal and food later, the Berlin Airlift stands down.
1954Member story · 1776 Club
Navy commissions the Nautilus, a submarine that never needs to surface
Commander Eugene Wilkinson takes command of a hull with a reactor where diesel tanks used to be.
1955
James Dean's Porsche collides with a Ford near Cholame, California; the actor is dead within the hour
Donald Turnupseed turned left in front of the Spyder without seeing it; Dean never made the Salinas race.
1968
A jet 2½ times the size of anything flying rolls out of Boeing's new Everett plant
Representatives of 26 airlines that had already ordered the plane came to see what they'd bought.
1998Member story · 1776 Club
A nonprofit is born in California to run the internet's address book
Esther Dyson takes the chair as ICANN incorporates, picking up work one researcher had run as a side job for decades.
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