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SEPTEMBER 30
1927:In the New York Yankees' second-to-last game of the season, Babe Ruth sets the MLB
record for most home runs in a single season, hitting his 60th homer
off a pitch by Tom Zachary of the Washington Senators. The Babe's record
will stand until Roger Maris breaks it in 1961.
1846: Dentist William Morton uses inhaled ether as an anesthetic,
painlessly extracting a tooth from local merchant Eben Frost at his
Boston dental office. Morton will give the first public demonstration of
the anesthetic at Massachusetts General Hospital the following month.
1938: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French
Prime Minister Édouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, appeasing Hitler's
demands for German annexation of the Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia. Returning home to England later that day, Chamberlain
proclaims that the agreement has secured "peace in our time."
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