📜 This Day in History

September 30

• 737Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
• 1791Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
• 1920Times Square Theater opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
• 1939Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
• 1998The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
• 2019President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

Born on this day

• 1207Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273)
• 1928Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
• 1964Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
• 1997Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver