Today in History - History - September 12th

1995INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

197185th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)

1992106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)

1787American statesman George Mason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion is defeated

1982102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)

1965Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open

2005Mark Messier announces on ESPN radio that he will retire from the NHL

201027th MTV Awards: Lady Gaga & Eminem wins

1992Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min)

1960John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.

1973Paul Walker, Glendale, California, American actor (The Fast and the Furious)

1897Irene Joliot-Curie, Paris, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (d. 1956)

1944Barry White, Galveston Tx, singer (Love's Theme), (d. 2003)

1880Henry Louis Mencken, Baltimore, Md, American newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)

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

1953Senator John F. Kennedy (36) weds Jacqueline Bouvier (24) in Newport, Rhode Island

1992Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60

2003Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)