TODAY IN HISTORY

1777

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

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.”

1947

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

1949

The Berlin Airlift came to an end.

1954

The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

1955

Actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.