TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 30, 1947

The World Series was broadcast on television for the first time; the New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3in game 1.

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1777

The Continental Congress _ forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces _ moved to York, Pennsylvania.

1846

Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

1917

Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Bernard “Buddy” Rich was born in Brooklyn, New York.

1927

Babe Ruth of the Yankees hit his 60th homer of the season to break his own major-league record during a 4-2victory over the Washington Senators.

1938

After co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said, “I believe it is peace for our time.”

1949

The Berlin Airlift came to an end.

1952

The motion picture “This Is Cinerama,” which introduced the triple-camera, triple-projector Cinerama widescreen process, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York.