This Day in History

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September 30

Í dag er alþjóðleg þýðingardagur, þannig að þýða eitthvað.


Events

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1927 – Babe Ruth



becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.

1968 – The Boeing 747



is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache



makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.