Today's selected anniversaries: 30th September 2022

Today's selected anniversaries: 30th September 2022

1551:

Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainei-ji_incident

1863:

Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_p%C3%AAcheurs_de_perles

1939:

Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski

1965:

Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government that was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

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