February 2

The 2nd in 1709 saw the rescue of Alexander Selkirk from an island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago, where he had been marooned for four years and four months. Daniel Dafoe used the Selkirk story as the basis for his novel Robinson Crusoe. On the other hand, perhaps Russell Johnson used it as the foundation of his screenplay for the epic tale Gilligan’s Island. The records are unclear.