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Today is Monday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2013. There are 92 days left in the year.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1777, the Continental Congress -- forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces -- moved to York, Pa.
In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.
In 1809, a treaty was signed by Indiana Territory Gov. William Henry Harrison and representatives of four Indian tribes under which the Indians sold some 3 million acres of land to be used for U.S. settlements.
In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said, "I believe it is peace for our time."
In 1949, the Berlin Airlift came to an end.
In 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS...