GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, the 255th day of 2014 with 110 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:20 and sunset is @ 7:01. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune & Saturn. ON THIS DAY IN: 490 B.C.E. - Athenian and Plataean Hoplites commanded by General Miltiades drove back a Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon. 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed the ship Half Moon into the river that now bears his name. 1722 - The Treaty of St. Petersburg put an end to the Russo-Persian War. 1866 - First New York City show premiered (The Black Crook) which features beautiful showgirls. 1918 - General John J. Pershing led American Expeditionary Forces on their first major offensive in Europe as an independent army. In the St. Mihiel offensive, the American Expeditionary Forces utilized with resounding success the armored fighting tank brigades as a substitute for the cavalry. 1919 - Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers Party. 1940 - Lascaux Caves 17,000-year-old paintings were discovered by teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork when trying to find their dog. The paintings are the finest examples of art from the Paleolithic Period. 1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time in World War II, near Trier. 1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America (LPGA) was formed in New York City with Patty Berg as its first president. 1953 - Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wed Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Marys Church in Newport,Rhode Island. 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev was elected the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, six months after the death of Joseph Stalin. 1954 - The TV show Lassie premiered. 1959 - Luna 2 was launched by the USSR, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon. 1964 - Canyonlands National Park was established in southeastern Utah. 1966 - The TV show The Monkees premiered. 1969 - President Richard Nixon ordered a resumption in bombing North Vietnam. 1972 - The TV show Maude debuted. 1974 - In Boston on the day the schools opened, opposition to court-ordered school busing turned violent. The National Guard was mobilized in October to restore peace. 1977 - South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, leading to international protests and a United Nations-imposed arms embargo. 1992 - Space shuttle Endeavour blasted off; it carried Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space, and Mae Carol Jemison, the first black woman in space. 2001 - Ansett Australia, Australias first commercial interstate airline, goes out of business. 2002 - Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the conglomerate; all three pleaded innocent at their arraignment in New York. 2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Pennys Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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