Today is Tuesday, September 30, the 273rd day of 2014. There are 92 days left in the year.
1452 ― First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1659 ― Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1791 ― Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1846 ― Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr. Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1898 ― City of New York established
1935 ― Gershwin's “Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1939 ― Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland
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
1980 ― Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1981 ― Seoul, South Korea, is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics