Today in History - History - September 30th

1972Roberto Clemente is 11th to get 3,000 hits

1992KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits

199226th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins

1985Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)

1993US General Colin Powell retires at 56

1908Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue" premieres in Moscow

1946Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial

1980Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open

1805Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine

1924Truman Capote, New Orleans Louisiana, American author (In Cold Blood)

1917Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987)

1928Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)

1627Robinson Crusoe, fictional character, according to Daniel Defoe

1989NBA legend Larry Bird (32) weds long-time girlfriend Dinah Mattingly in Terre Haute, Indiana

2000Tennis star player Pete Sampras (29) weds actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson (27) in Los Angeles, California

1978Actress Meryl Streep (29) weds sculptor Don Gummer (31) in Mason's Island, Connecticut

1968Jazz musician Miles Davis (42) weds singer Betty Mabry (23)

1955James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24

1948Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, dies at 87