WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Today is Wednesday, September 12, the 256th day of 2012. There are 110 days left in the year.

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

1885 ― Highest score (35) recorded in any first-class soccer match is set

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

1980 ― Military coup in Turkey

1983 ― Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes

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

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