THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Today is Thursday, September 20, the 264th day of 2012. 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

1859 ― Patent granted on the electric range

1954 ― First FORTRAN computer program run

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

1961 ― After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls

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

1984 ― Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut

1990 ― Both Germanys ratify reunification