September 12 - Gated Community

Gated Community

This Day In History

490 BC

Conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion of Greece.

1609

Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River aboard the Halve Maen.

1846

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

1910

Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich, with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players.

1933

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

1940

Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1952

Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

1959

Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.

1992

NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked 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.

2005

Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

Famous Birthdays

1605

William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)

1725

Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)

1768

Benjamin Carr, American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher (d. 1831)

1818

Richard Gatling, American firearms inventor (d. 1903)

1856

Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (d. 1924)

1888

Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)

1892

Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher (d. 1984)

1913

Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)

1914

Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)

1921

Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)

1931

Ian Holm, English actor
George Jones, American country music singer

1944

Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
1951
Joe Pantoliano, American actor
1966
Ben Folds, American musician
1967
Jason Statham, English actor
1974
Jennifer Nettles, American country singer (Sugarland)
1986
Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer