PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER 12

[Mark Thibodeau]

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This day in *490 BC* is the conventionally accepted date for the *Battle of
Marathon*. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first
Persian invasion force of Greece.

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On this day in *1919*, *Adolf Hitler* joins the German Workers Party as a
spy, to report on its activities to the German army.

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On this day in *1943*, *Benito Mussolini*, dictator of Italy, is rescued
from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces
led by *Otto Skorzeny*.

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On this day in *1952*, strange occurrences, including a monster sighting,
take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

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On this day in *1953*, U.S. Representative *John Fitzgerald Kennedy*
 marries *Jacqueline Lee Bouvier* at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode
Island.

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It took almost two hundred years, but America's sizable Catholic minority
didn't dwell on that fact on this day in *1975*, when *Pope John XXIII*
 canonized *Elizabeth Ann Seton*, making her the first ever American Saint.

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On this day in *1977*, South African anti-apartheid activist *Steve Biko* is
killed in police custody.

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On this day in *1994* *Frank Eugene Corder* crashes a single-engine Cessna
150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing
himself.

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On this day in *2003*, the United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya
after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the
families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

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On this day in *2003*, in Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill
eight Iraqi police officers.
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