THURSDAY, Sept. 12, 2024

1901-Arabs attack Gedara Palestine

1920-7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium

1934-Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia

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

11953-Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F. Kennedy

1953-Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party

1956-Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school

1961-NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m

1965-17th annual Emmy Awards

1970-USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility

1972-Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics

1980-Military coup in Turkey

1983-Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million

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 2 Germanys to merge

1991-Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched