Today is Monday, September 14, the 257th day of 2009. There are 108 days left in the year.
1812 _ Napoleon occupies Moscow
1814 _ Francis Scott Key inspired to write ``The Star-Spangled Banner"
1899 _ Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality (N.Y.)
1930 _ Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1938 _ Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1948 _ Groundbreaking ceremony for the U.N. world headquarters
1956 _ First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington, D.C.
1957 _ U.N. resolution deplores and condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1974 _ Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1983 _ U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner