Today is Saturday, September 15, the 259th day of 2012. There are 107 days left in the year.
1620 ― Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
1830 ― First to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1916 ― First tank used in war, “Little Willies” at Battle of Flors, France
1917 ― Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1935 ― Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
1938 ― Only time brothers hit back-to-back homeruns (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pittsburgh)
1950 ― During Korean War, U.N. forces land at Incheon in South Korea
1959 ― Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1982 ― First issue of USA Today published by Gannett Co., Inc.
1990 ― Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000