The notorious Munich Agreement, in which Britain's Neville Chamberlain encouraged Britain and France to appease Adolf Hitler's demands in the hope of preventing World War II, was reached on this day in 1938.
| 1965: | | In Indonesia a group of army conspirators kidnapped and murdered six army generals, and the following morning the 30th September Movement announced that it had seized power to forestall a coup against the president by a council of generals. |
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| 1955: | | American motion-picture actor James Dean died in an automobile crash in Paso Robles, California. |
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| 1895: | | French troops occupied Antananarivo, Madagascar, after the refusal of Rainilaiarivony, the prime minister, to submit to French suzerainty. |
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| 1870: | | | French physicist Jean Perrin, who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926 for his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles, was born. |
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| 1791: | | The opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered in Vienna. |
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| 1773: | | The Polish Sejm (legislature) ratified the treaty that led to the First Partition of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. |
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