September 12<\/p>\n
490 BC \u2013 The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece at Marathon. Afterwards, the Greek messenger Pheidippides runs with the news of the victory to Athens. Announcing \u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd<\/span> – nikomen –<\/em>\u00a0 (We’ve won) – he then dies of exhaustion after the 25+ mile run.<\/p>\n 1229 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the Aragon army under the command of James I of Aragon, lands at Santa Pon\u00e7a, Majorca, held by the Almohad caliphate.<\/p>\n 1309 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the Castile army under the command of Juan N\u00fa\u00f1ez II de Lara, lays siege to Gibraltar, held by the Emirate of Granada.<\/p>\n 1609 \u2013 Henry Hudson begins his exploration up the Hudson River from Manhattan.<\/p>\n 1683 \u2013 The combined European armies complete the defeat of the army of Ottoman Empire that had besieged Vienna<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 A detachment of the Maryland Militia under General John Stricker, engages the British under General Robert Ross, at North Point outside Baltimore. Having suffered significant casualties inflicted by the U.S. troops,\u00a0 before they retreat in good order, the deputy commanding British officer, Colonel Arthur Brooke delays their advance to Baltimore allowing the city to reinforce the defenses to the point the British plan to take Baltimore fails.<\/p>\n 1847 \u2013 The Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War begins<\/p>\n 1857 \u2013 Carrying over 13 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush, the SS Central America<\/em> sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, contributing to the financial Panic of 1857. Located in 1988, the wreck has had large quantities of the cargo recovered.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 While living in England, Le\u00f3 Szil\u00e1rd comes up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. European leaders cave.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 An explosion at the Hercules Powder plant at Roxbury, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200 more<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 On Guadalcanal, Imperial Japanese Army troops begin an attack along “Edson’s Ridge” against U.S. Marines defending the Henderson airfield.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 German commando forces, led by Otto Skorzeny, rescue Benito Mussolini from house arrest in a hotel northeast of Rome<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 President Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 NASA launches Gemini 11<\/em>, with astronauts “Pete” Conrad and Richard Gordon aboard, from Cape Kennedy for a 3 day mission to practice rendezvous and docking procedures.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 William ‘Hopalong Cassidy’ Boyd dies from complications related to Parkinson’s disease at Laguna Beach, California<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed following a military coup by the Provisional Military Administrative Council, ending a reign of 58 years.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately $7 million by the Puerto Rican Los Macheteros gang.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The two German states and the ‘Four Powers’ (UK, France, USSR & U.S) sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany<\/em>, in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour<\/em> on STS-47, the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single engine Cessna 150 aircraft into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Out of thousands of people unable to escape from the World Trade Center towers before they collapsed, only 20 survivors are finally rescued and pulled out of the rubble.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Johnny Cash dies at at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 The engineer of a Metrolink commuter train runs it through a red light onto a single track and collides head on with a Union Pacific freight train on the Metrolink Ventura County Line just east of Stoney Point, Los Angeles killing 25 people and injuring 135 more.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 NASA confirms that the Voyager 1<\/em> probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 12 490 BC \u2013 The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece at Marathon. Afterwards, the Greek messenger Pheidippides runs with the news of the victory to Athens. Announcing \u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd – nikomen –\u00a0 (We’ve won) – he then dies of exhaustion after the 25+ mile run. 1229 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59454"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95917,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454\/revisions\/95917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}