National Read a Book Day Tarihi

1876

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Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" is the first book written on a typewriter.

1473

"The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye"

Englishman William Caxton prints the first English book on a printing press; the text is Caxton's translation of French stories about Troy.

1455

Gutenberg Bible gives average people the chance to read the Word

The first mass-printed book is produced in Mainz, Germany by Johann Gutenberg; it's a Bible written in Latin.