30 September 1791: Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
30 September 1927: Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run. The record stood until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Mark McGwire beat Maris’s record in 1998 by hitting 70 and Barry Bonds topped this in 2001 with 73.
30 September 1938: 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.
30 September 1949: The Berlin Airlift came to an end.
30 September 1955: American motion-picture actor James Dean died in an automobile crash in Paso Robles, California.
30 September 2004: First Photos Taken of a Giant Squid in the Wild.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
- Victor Hugo
