September 30 is:
National Mud Pack Day Mud packs are mixtures of therapeutic clays which, when applied to the skin, increase circulation, ease muscle tension, release toxins and boost immunity. They work well on oily and some combination skin types.
While commonly used as a facial, mud packs treat the entire skin’s surface.
National Chewing Gum Day Birthday of William Wrigley, Jr. in 1861.
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
The cider industry uses 45% of all apples grown in the UK.
There are more than 300 varieties of cider apple grown in the UK – all with the sole purpose of making cider.
According to Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked in 1659. The first edition of the book credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.
1659 – Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbid tennis playing during religious services (first mention of tennis in US).
Anesthetic ether was used for first time in 1846 by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracted a tooth.
Birthday of Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928-July 2, 2016), Romanian-born, Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
From Today in Science
In 1935, the Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada was dedicated. The concrete-arch dam, subsequently named Hoover Dam (1947), supplied the first U.S. hydroelectric plant to produce a million kilowatts. This production peak occurred in June 1943, though the first of its four generators was placed into operation on 26 Oct 1936… The power serves the Los Angeles area.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
September 30, 1955: American film star James Dean died at aged 24 in a car crash. He starred in Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, and East of Eden.