Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Today is Wednesday, September 12, the 254th day of 2007. There are 111 days left in the year.

490 B.C. _ Athenians defeat the second Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon

1609 _ Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River

1901 _ Arabs attack Gedara Palestine

1918 _ During WWI, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel

1928 _ Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in ``Night Hostess"

1934 _ The Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia

1938 _ Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech

1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first secretary of the USSR Communist Party

1959 _ ``Bonanza" premiers

1964 _ Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage

1974 _ Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia 1980 Military coup in Turkey

1983 _ The USSR vetoes a U.N. resolution deploring its shooting-down of a Korean plane

1990 _ The U.S., England, France, the USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the two Germanys to merge