Today is Thursday, September 20, the 264th day of 2012. 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 electric range
1954 ― First FORTRAN computer program run
1958 ― Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
1961 ― After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1973 ― Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1984 ― Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut
1990 ― Both Germanys ratify reunification