Thursday, September 30, 2184

President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.

The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.

Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

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

Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.