- 1452: Johann Guttenberg's Bible became the first book ever
                        published.
                      - 1630: One of America's first pilgrims to land in the New World,
                        John Billington, was hanged in Plymouth, Mass., for murder,
                        becoming the first criminal executed in the colonies.
                      - 1777: Congress fled to York, Pa., as British forces advanced.
                      - 1791: Mozart's opera, "Die Zauberfloete" ("The Magic Flute"),
                        premiered at the Theater-auf-der-Wieden in Vienna.
                      - 1841: Samuel Slocum patented the stapler.
                      - 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, was the first to
                        use anaesthesia in extracting a tooth.
                      - 1888: "Jack the Ripper" butchered two more women, Liz Stride and
                        Kate Eddowes, in London.
                      - 1924: Author Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") was born in New Orleans
                        (d: 1984).
                      - 1935: "Porgy and Bess," a folk opera by composer George Gershwin,
                        had its premiere in Boston.
                      - 1938: After signing the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler in
                        Germany, Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain and declared there
                        would be "peace in our time."
                      - 1947: The first televised World Series game, between the New York
                        Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, was viewed by 4 million people.
                      - 1949: The Berlin Airlift, under which the U.S. and Britain kept
                        Berlin supplied against a Russian blockade, came to an end after
                        277,264 flights which carried 2,323,738 tons of supplies.
                      - 1953: Earl Warren was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
                      - 1954: The submarine Nautilus, the first atomic-powered vessel, was
                        commissioned by the Navy.
                      - 1961: The bill for the Boston Tea Party was paid by Mayor Snyder of
                        Oregon who wrote a check for $1.96, the total cost of all tea lost.
                      - 1962: Riots broke out in Oxford, Miss., when black student James
                        Meredith was enrolled into the formerly white-only University of
                        Mississippi under a federal court order.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Crystal Bernard, 37, actress, "Wings"
                      - Angie Dickinson, 67, actress, "Police Woman"
                      - Fran Drescher, 41, actress, "The Nanny"
                      - Deborah Kerr, 77, actress, "Affair to Remember"
                      - Johnny Mathis, 63, singer, "Chances Are," his Greatest Hits LP
                        stayed on Billboard's chart over 560 weeks
                      - Marilyn McCoo, 55, singer, "Solid Gold"
                      - Eric Stoltz, 37, actor, "Pulp Fiction"
                      - Victoria Tennant, 45, actress, "The Winds of War"
                      - Barry Williams, 44, actor, "The Brady Bunch's" Greg Brady