Once Upon A Time – Sept. 12 – 1910 – Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony Premieres In Munich With 1028 Musicians

1758 French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula so begins his Messier Catalogue

1909 World’s first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction

1940 Four teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France discover 17,000 year old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings

1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate

1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1981 “The Smurfs” animated cartoon series by Hanna-Barbera first broadcasts in North America

TODAY IN MUSIC

1910 Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony (“Symphony of A Thousand”) premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians

TODAY IN SPORT

1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 in the longest match in US Open history (5 hours, 26 minutes)

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1624 1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I

1910 United States’ 1st known female cop appointed, Alice Stebbins Wells by LAPD

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1812 Revolutionary leader Jose de San Martin (33) weds María de los Remedios de Escalada at Buenos Aires Cathedral in Argentina

1840 German pianist and composer Robert Schumann (30) marries German pianist and composer Clara Wieck (20)

1846 Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London