Historical Events Events 30th of September 1199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew 1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates throne 1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenbergs Bible 1520 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey 1544 - King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France 1555 - Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1619 - Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp 1626 - Battle between king Bethlen Gabor & earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends 1649 - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague 1659 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe) 1659 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US) 1681 - Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty 1730 - Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dellOlmo. 1777 - Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance  Famous Birthdays Born Today Fictional Character Robinson Crusoe (1627) 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273) 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292) 1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606) 1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631) 1622 - Johann Sebastiani, composer 1627 - Robinson Crusoe, fictional character, according to Daniel Defoe 1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701) 1685 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer 1700 - StanisÅ‚aw Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773) 1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771) 1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780) 1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804) 1743 - Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer 1752 - Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer 1765 - JosĂ© MarĂa Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815) Famous Weddings 1968 - Jazz musician Miles Davis (42) weds singer Betty Mabry (23) 1977 - Harry Rabbit Angstrom author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard 1995 - Judging Amy actress Amy Brenneman (31) weds TV and film director Brad Silberling (32) 2000 - Tennis star player Pete Sampras (29) weds actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson (27) in Los Angeles, California 2006 - Hanson pop rock Isaac Hanson (25) weds Nicole Dufresne (22) at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa 2006 - Actress Amanda Peet (34) weds screenwriter David Benioff (36) at Friends Seminary Quaker School in New York City 2011 - Paramore bassist Jeremy Davis (26) weds TV host and actress Kathryn Camsey in Las Vegas Famous Divorces 2010 - CSI: Miami actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces actress Brandi Glanville (37) due to irreconcilable differences after eight years of marriage Famous Deaths Passed Away Today Deaths Actor James Dean (1955) Bible 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury 739 - Pu-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Chan Line Zen teacher, dies 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191) 1351 - Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400) 1551 - ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507) 1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525) 1572 - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of GandĂa and Jesuit priest, dies at 61 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518) 1612 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81 1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559) 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
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