Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991. Aristide was the second elected leader of Haiti and was popular among its poor inhabitants. On September 30, 1991, the army staged a coup against Aristide and installed Joseph Nérette as president, but under the command of […]

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The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights, also known as the Human Rights Monument, is a monumental sculpture located at the corner of Lisgar and Elgin streets in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was designed by Montreal artist and architect Melvin Charney and unveiled by the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet on September 30, 1990.
Standing over thirty […]

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Hans-Dietrich Genscher is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982 and, after a two-week pause, from 1982 to 1992, making him Germany’s longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor. He is mostly respected for his efforts that […]

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Mordechai Vanunu is an Israeli former nuclear technician who in early September 1986 revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press. He was subsequently kidnapped in Rome on September 30 by Israeli agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried and convicted of treason.
Mordechai Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including […]

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On September 30, 1965 six of Indonesia’s most senior military officers were executed in an attempted coup by the so-called 30 September Movement, a group from within the armed forces. Within a few hours, Major General Suharto, took control of the army and launched counteraction, and by the following day it was clear the poorly-coordinated […]

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César Estrada Chávez, born in Yuma, Arizona, was an American farm worker of Mexican descent, labor leader, and civil rights activist. On September 30, 1962, Chávez with Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. He is […]

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Jimmy Byron Dean was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean’s status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward […]

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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first vessel to complete a submerged transit across the North Pole. Nautilus’s keel was laid at General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division in Groton, Connecticut by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, on June 14, 1952. She was christened on January 21, […]

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Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway system (MTR) first began service on 30 September 1979 and officially merged with the Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR) on 2 December 2007, still bearing the same name in English. The network includes 211.6 km of rail with 150 stations, including 82 railway stations and 68 light rail stops. The MTR […]

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The AH-64 Apache, an all-weather day-night military attack helicopter is the successor to the AH-1 Cobra and is the United States Army’s principal attack helicopter. The AH-64 is a twin-engined helicopter with four-bladed main and tail rotors. It has a crew of two which sit in tandem. The main fixed armament is a 30 mm […]

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