August 15: What is one significant news that happened today, in 2009, or in History?

August 15, 1457 Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed. The Mainz Psalter is the earliest dated example of printed matter issuing from the new moveable-print technology of Johannes Gutenberg. Ten copies in two versions of this "first book" still exist today.

Other August 15 events, brainyhistory.com/days/august_15.html I think there are literally like a few hundred events as well as a tab for births and another for deaths!

Woodstock. That festival--whatever really happened there--has grown into one of the great pieces of Americana. It turned 40 on the 15th.It is one of the events that defines the 60's experience.

Guess I'm late, but I think it's the best.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.