TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Today is Tuesday, September 20, the 263rd day of 2011. There are 102 days left in the year.

622 ― Mohammad's Hegira

1519 ― Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world

1859 ― Patent granted on the electric range

1951 ― First North Pole jet crossing

1954 ― First National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution

1958 ― Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC

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

1976 ― Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion

1990 ― Both Germanys ratify reunification

1990 ― Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message