^B{^#!16!30 September^N! National Day of Botswana. Feast day of St Jerome, St Simon of CrΘpy, St Gregory the Enlightener, and St Honorius of Canterbury.
^B{1791^B} The first performance of Mozart's ^I{Magic Flute^I} took place in Vienna. ^B{1888^B} Jack the Ripper murdered two more women - Liz Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Kate Eddowes in Mitre Square, both in London's East End. ^B{1902^B} Rayon, or artificial silk, was patented. ^B{1928^B} Alexander Fleming announced his discovery of penicillin. ^B{1935^B} George Gershwin's opera ^I{Porgy and Bess^I} was first performed in Boston. ^B{1939^B} The USSR and Germany agreed on the partition of Poland. ^B{1952^B} Cinerama, invented by Fred Waller, was first exhibited in New York. ^B{1987^B} Keith Best, MP, was sentenced to four months in prison for trying to obtain British Telecom shares by deception.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Lord Raglan, British field-marshal, ^B{1788^B}; David Fyodorovich Oistrakh, Russian violinist, ^B{1908^B}; Deborah Kerr, British actress, ^B{1923^B}; Truman Capote, US author, ^B{1924;^B} Angie Dickinson, US actress, ^B{1931^B}; Johnny Mathis, US singer, ^B{1937^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}^>}James Brindley, British canal engineer, ^B{1772^B}; Richard Austin Freeman, British crime writer, ^B{1943^B}; James Dean, US film actor, ^B{1955^B}; Simone Signoret, French film actress, ^B{1985^B}; Virgil Thomson, US composer, ^B{1989^B}.
