World Record on September12

490 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.

1848 – Switzerland became a federal state with the adoption of a new constitution.

1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, was first performed in Munich.

1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison (pictured) became the first black woman in space.

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