ALMANAC TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2022. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date in:

1913: Olympic legend Jesse Owens

was born in Oakville, Alabama.

1914: During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.

1958: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Cooper v. Aaron, unanimously ruled that Arkansas officials who were resisting public school desegregation orders could not disregard the high court’s rulings.

1959: The Soviet Union launched its Luna 2 space probe, which crash landed on the moon. The TV Western series “Bonanza” premiered on NBC.

1962: In a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

1977: South African Black student leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, 30, died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

1987: Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock for one of his own campaign speeches. (The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.)

1995: The Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots, John Stuart-Jervis and

Alan Fraenckel.

2001: Stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center’s smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead.

2003: In the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly opened fire on vehicles carrying police, killing eight of them.

2005: Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.