Today is Wednesday, September 12, the 254th day of 2007. There are 111 days left in the year.
490 B.C. _ Athenians defeat the second Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon
1609 _ Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River
1901 _ Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1918 _ During WWI, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel
1928 _ Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in ``Night Hostess"
1934 _ The Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia
1938 _ Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first secretary of the USSR Communist Party
1959 _ ``Bonanza" premiers
1964 _ Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1974 _ Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia 1980 Military coup in Turkey
1983 _ The USSR vetoes a U.N. resolution deploring its shooting-down of a Korean plane
1990 _ The U.S., England, France, the USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the two Germanys to merge