Today is Saturday, September 8, the 250th day of 2007. There are 115 days left in the year.
1380 _ Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars
1522 _ Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes the first circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan
1943 _ Italy surrenders to the allies in WWII
1945 _ The U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea
1951 _ Japan signs a treaty of peace with 48 countries in San Francisco
1952 _ Ernest Hemingway's ``Old Man and the Sea" published
1971 _ John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1974 _ President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
1990 _ Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Eliis Island, NYC