On this day: September 12

September 12: National Day in Cape Verde

John III Sobieski

• 490 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
• 1683 – Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by John III Sobieski (pictured) joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna.
• 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.
• 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed in police custody.

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