CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 12, 2001, President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.

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On this date in:
1609	English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
1880	Journalist and critic H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore.
1938	In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943	German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944	U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953	Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
1954	"Lassie" made its TV debut on CBS.
1959	"Bonanza" premiered on NBC.
1974	Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977	South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
2000	Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2002	President George W. Bush told the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or stand aside as the United States acted.
2003	Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
2005	Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006	In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world.
2008	A commuter train engineer ran a red light while text messaging on his cell phone and struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing himself and 24 other people.