This day in History - September 30

407 Historic Events for September 30
739 Death P'u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch'an Line Zen teacher, dies
1199 Event Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
1351 Death Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan
1399 Event King Richard II of England abdicates throne
1452 Event 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1520 Event Suleiman I succeeds his father SelŒm I as sultan of Turkey
1544 Event King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
1555 Event Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1572 Death Francisco Borgia, theologist/saint, dies at 61
1612 Death Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81
1619 Event Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
1622 Birth Johann Sebastiani, composer
1626 Event Battle between king Bethlen G bor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends
1627 Birth Robinson Crusoe, fictional character according to Daniel Defoe
1630 Death John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged
1649 Event Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
1659 Event Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
1659 Event Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1681 Event Netherlands and Sweden sign treaty
1685 Birth Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer
1712 Death Johann Michael Zacher, composer, dies at 61
1715 Birth Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism/Cours d'‚tudes)
1716 Death Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer, dies at 62
1730 Event Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns
1743 Birth Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer