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Today in history
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.