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• ...that the Cabinet des Médailles is the oldest museum of Paris, and houses the largest gold coin of Antiquity, a 20-stater of Eucratides I (pictured)?
• ...that the 2003 aggressive skating video game Rolling featured a roster of professional skaters including Fabiola da Silva and Brian Shima?
• ...that the USS Robert H. McCard, a United States Navy destroyer, was named after U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. McCard, a recipient of the Medal of Honor?
• ...that fried spiders are a popular food in the Cambodian village of Skuon?
• ...that Anne Gregg, best known as former presenter of the BBC's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s, was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
• ...that in order to get him to agree to write and perform the "Theme from Shaft", Isaac Hayes was promised an audition for the film's title role?
• ...that the Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian artifact dating to at least 200 B.C.E., has led some scholars to speculate whether the Ptolemaic Egyptians possessed rudimentary airplane technology?

• Incumbent prime minister Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists wins Montenegro's first legislative elections.
• King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (coat of arms pictured) dies, aged 88. His son, George Tupou V is named his successor.
• Michael Schumacher, the most successful driver in Formula One history, announces his plans to retire.
• Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center to begin STS-115.
• Tony Blair announces that he will resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom before the 2007 Labour Party Conference.
• Princess Kiko of Japan gives birth to Prince Hisahito, the first male heir born into the Japanese Imperial Family for more than 40 years. He is now third in line for the Chrysanthemum Throne.
• More than two months after the Mexican elections, Felipe Calderón is declared President-elect by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

September 13

• 533 - Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
• 1814 - The bombardment of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," which later became the national anthem of the United States.
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec.
• 1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive item was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating hundreds of people.
• 1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured with U.S. President Bill Clinton) formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords.

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