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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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  • Published Sep 19, 2010 5:02 pm KST
  • Updated Sep 19, 2010 5:02 pm KST

Today is Monday, September 20, the 263rd day of 2010. 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 microwave oven

1873 _ Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)

1954 _ First National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution

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

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

1990 _ Both Germanys ratify reunification

1990 _ Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message