SEPTEMBER 30
1949:After completing more than 277,000 flights to deliver over 2.3 million tons of food and supplies to the Soviet-blockaded city of West Berlin, the Western Allies' Berlin Airlift comes to an end.
1938: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaims that "peace for our time" has been secured, after signing the Munich Agreement with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier. While the agreement meets Hitler's demands for German annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, it would not prevent the impending World War II.
1998: President Bill Clinton announces that the United States has made a "landmark achievement" and reached a budget surplus, expecting the nation to come out $70 billion ahead for fiscal year 1998.
1962:Labor leader Cesar Chavez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW)
1988:IBM ships its 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1955:American film icon James Dean, star of "Rebel Without A Cause," dies in car collision
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