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Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

On September 30, in the year 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of September 30, one of 388 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the genocide of about six million Jews in the Holocaust as well as the deaths of millions of other victims.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on September 30, 1938 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 6 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 4 September 2026.

On This Date in History 388

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 30 Gavin Creel, American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1976)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 30 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player (born 1966)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 30 Humberto Ortega, Nicaraguan military leader (born 1947)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 30 Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (born 1954)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 30 Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2021 Sep 30 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2019 Sep 30 Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (born 1967)
Selected Events 2019 Sep 30 President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 30 Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (born 1945)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 30 Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (born 1942)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 30 Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 30 Monty Hall, American game show host (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 30 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (born 1966)
Historical Events 2016 Sep 30 Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since…
Historical Events 2016 Sep 30 Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in…
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 30 Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 30 Claude Dauphin, French businessman (born 1951)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 30 Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (born 1947)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 30 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 30 Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (born 1942)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (born 1913)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 30 Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2011 Sep 30 Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (born 1971)
Notable Deaths 2011 Sep 30 Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2010 Sep 30 Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (born 1941)
Historical Events 2009 Sep 30 The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
Selected Events 2009 Sep 30 A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2…
Notable Deaths 2008 Sep 30 J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Historical Events 2005 Sep 30 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
Selected Events 2005 Sep 30 The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests…
Notable Deaths 2004 Sep 30 Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2004 Sep 30 Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2004 Sep 30 Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
Notable Births 2003 Sep 30 Alberto Moleiro, Spanish footballer
Notable Deaths 2003 Sep 30 Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2003 Sep 30 Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2003 Sep 30 Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (born 1944)
Notable Births 2002 Sep 30 Levi Miller, Australian actor and model
Notable Births 2002 Sep 30 Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress
Notable Deaths 2002 Sep 30 Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (born 1966)
Notable Deaths 2002 Sep 30 Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1913)
Historical Events 2000 Sep 30 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second…
Selected Events 2000 Sep 30 Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted…
Historical Events 1999 Sep 30 The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
Notable Births 1998 Sep 30 Landon Dickerson, American football player
Notable Births 1998 Sep 30 Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality

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