THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 18
September 18 in history
What happened on September 18: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1931, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Mukden Incident
18 Sep 1931 — Officers of Japan’s Kwantung Army dynamite their own railway outside Mukden, then blame Chinese soldiers. Within months the army, acting apart from Japan’s government, has taken all of Manchuria.
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