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