September 12 in history: • 379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I (depicted) took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal. → go there • 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich. → go there • 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall. → go there • 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO. → go there • 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others. → go there Died 1185: Andronikos I Komnenos Wiki link Died 1876: Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg Wiki link Born 1965: Joe Schmidt Wiki link Born 1996: Joshua Cheptegei Wiki link Pictured: Portrait of Yax Nuun Ahiin I.