Today is Tuesday, September 30, the 274th day of 2008. There are 92 days left in the year.
1452 _ First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1659 _ Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1846 _ Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1898 _ City of N.Y. established
1929 _ First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1935 _ Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1946 _ 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1949 _ Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1968 _ First Boeing 747 rolls out
1981 _ Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics