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30 September 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 30 September 2011 was a Friday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2011
- “The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 30 September is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 30 September 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 30 September 2011 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 30 September
- 1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 1994 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.
- 2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
- 2016 Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
- 2016 Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
Famous people born on September 30
- Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver (born 1997)
- Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model (born 1964)
- Kieran Culkin, American actor (born 1982)
- Ezra Miller, American actor and singer (born 1992)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2011 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2011
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.52
Loaf of Bread
$1.74
Average House
$242,300
Weekly Wage
$737
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