09-12-2006, 05:21 AM
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September 12th
490 B.C. ~ Athenians defeated Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.
1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.
1888 ~ Birthday of Maurice Chevalier, Singer, Actor (Gigi, Thank Heaven For Little Girls).
1933 ~ Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1959 ~ Bonanza premiered. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.
2003 ~ The U.N. Security Council lifted sanctions against Libya after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great.
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