Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria.

1938

After co-signing the Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed, “I believe it is peace for our time.”

1947

The World Series was broadcast on television for the first time, as the New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 in Game 1; the Yankees would go on to win the Series.

1954

The first U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was commissioned.