SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Today is Saturday, September 12, the 255th day of 2009. There are 110 days left in the year.

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

1857 _ 423 die when ``Central America" sinks off Cape Romain, S.C.

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

1953 _ Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F. Kennedy

1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party

1959 _ ``Bonanza" premiers

1959 _ Luna 2 launched by USSR; first spacecraft to impact on the Moon

1980 _ Military coup in Turkey

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

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