30th September in history!

TODAY IN HISTORY (30th september)

Propably the most important thing that happened today (or on that day if you're reading it later) is signing of the Munich Agreement.

But first of all, what was the Munich Agreement?

In 1938 Hitler driven forward by his previous succeces decided to issue an ultimatum towards Czechoslovakia. In said ultimatum he threatened, that if the Czechoslovakian goverment didn't agree to give  Sudetenland to Germany, he would've started a war. At the same time Hitler's ministers were doing all they could to justify that action, mostly by saying that Nazi Germany is uniting and protecting it's citizens.

Czech goverment was ready to fight, despite it's rather small, when compared to Germany's army. Czech generals believed, that they could hold Sudetenland until the Allies attacked Hitler from the west. What they didn't know, is that both France and Great Britain didn't have armies strong enough to stop thee German aggression. 

Annexed region was quite important for Czechoslovakia as there was a lot of industry in there, plus the mountains were a natural barrier between Czechoslovakia and Germany.

Hitler and Chamberlain in Munich, 1938.

Western countries (France and Great Britain) on the other hand knew their weaknesses and decided to hold a conference in Munich, where they decided to give Germans the Sudetenland , even though they told Czechoslovakian goverment that they were going to do all they could to keep Sudetenland Czech (our southern neighbours weren't even participating in the conference).  Some Czechs still call it "The Munich Betrayal". British prime minister on the other hand said that he was glad that the crisis was solved in a peaceful way and announced that it meant "peace in our time".

German poster with map of German Reich and Sudetenland(white-pink colour).

If you ever encounter somebody saying, that the agreement was signed on 29th of September then don't hate them because they are kind of right, as the whole thing is formaly dated for that day. Even though  it was actually signed in the early hours of 30.09.


********************************************************************Also R.I.P the largest male alligator in Florida. Old fellow died in 1997. We'll never forget you buddy. 
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And now, the happy news!

 Happy 389th birthday Robinson Crusoe! (It's his "actual fictional"  date of birth not the date of releasing the book.)

 Robinson Crusoe book cover.

And congratulations to Selwyn Brothers for opening the Time Square Theatre in 1920! It used to be an amaizing place back in the day.

Times Square Theatre on 217 West 42nd Street.

Well done Fritz von Opel for making the first manned rocket plane designed to fly (previous one was built to glide) in history in 1929! Quite a ground-breaking achievement.

Opel RAK1 while flying.

And that's it for today!
*********All images(except the one with mr. Crusoe. It was from bookishgirl.com.au / found in the google search) were downloaded from Wikipedia.org. They make me feel like an outdated news channel.