• Today is Sunday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2012. There are 92 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 30, 1962, James Meredith, a black student, was escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolled for classes the next day; Meredith's presence sparked rioting that claimed two lives. In an address to the nation, President John F. Kennedy expressed hope that the school, the state of Mississippi and the nation would "return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law."
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• 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 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 1912, the Columbia Journalism School in New York held its first classes.
• 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 1952, the motion picture "This Is Cinerama," which introduced the triple-camera, triple-projector Cinerama widescreen process, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York.
• In 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was commissioned by the Navy.
• In 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame,

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