September 30, 1777 - York, Pennsylvania becomes the nation's temporary capital as the Continental Congress leaves Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.

September 30, 1868 - Little Women, written by Louisa May Alcott, is published.

September 30, 1882 - The first hydroelectric power plant in the world begins work on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.

September 30, 1889 - Women in Wyoming become the first in the nation to be granted the right to vote.

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September 30, 1924 - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's), is born.

September 30, 1954 - Representing an immense technological advance over diesel electric submarines, the USS Nautilus (a nuclear powered submarine) is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

September 30, 1955 - James Dean is killed in a car accident.

September 30, 1962 - An African-American student attempts to enroll at the University of Mississippi. James H. Meredith had to be escorted by federal marshals as riots break out.

September 30, 1994 - The World Health Organization announces that polio has been eradicated from the western hemisphere.

 

"In the beginning, all the world was America." - John Locke.