SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Today is Saturday, September 20, the 264th day of 2008. There are 102 days left in the year.

622 _ Mohammad's Hegira

1519 _ Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world

1664 _ Maryland enacts first anti-amalgamation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men

1830 _ First National Black convention meets (Philadelphia)

1854 _ British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea

1859 _ Patent granted on the electric range

1942 _ Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m

1954 _ First FORTRAN computer program run

1973 _ Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

1990 _ Both Germanys ratify reunification