TODAY in HISTORY

1452 — First book published, Johann Guttenberg’s Bible

1659 — Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)

1878 — First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

1887 — Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure “The Five Orange Pips” (BG)

1895 — France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar

1929 — First manned rocket plane flight (by automaker Fritz von Opel)

1938 — The Munich Agreement forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

1939 — Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland

1941 — 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev, Ukraine

1946 — 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg; Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentenced to death

1949 — Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights

1981 — Seoul, South Korea, is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics