September 30, 1972 (Saturday)
- Roberto Clemente made his 3,000th hit, which would also prove to be his very last. Clemente was killed in a plane crash at the end of the year.
- Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine addressed the annual National Cancer Conference in Los Angeles, and announced the increase in cases of mesothelioma among men who had been exposed to asbestos 30 years earlier during World War II.
- Born: Shaan (Shantanu Mukherjee), Indian singer, in Khandwa
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“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
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