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September 12
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 255th day of the year (256th in
leap years). There are 110 days remaining.
Events
*
490 BC -
Athens defeats
Iran Persia at the
Battle of Marathon - but see
12 August; origin of the
marathon (sport) marathon long-distance race (attributed to
Pheidippides)
*
1213 -
Albigensian Crusade:
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester defeats
Peter II of Aragon, the king of
Aragon at the
Battle of Muret.
*
1229 - An
Aragonese-
Catalan army under the command of
James I of Aragon disembarks at
Santa Ponça,
Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
*
1609 -
Henry Hudson discovers the
Hudson River.
*
1683 -
Great Turkish war Austro-Ottoman War:
Battle of Vienna - Several
European armies join forces to defeat the
Ottoman Empire.
*
1814 -
Battle of North Point: An
United States of America American detachment halts the
United Kingdom British land advance to
Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore in the
War of 1812.
*
1846 -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett elopes with
Robert Browning.
*
1847 -
Mexican-American War: The
Battle of Chapultepec begins.
U.S. Army deserters in the
Saint Patrick's Battalion who fought alongside the
Mexico Mexican army are
hanged ''en masse'' for
treason by the order of General
Winfield Scott.
*
1890 -
Harare Salisbury,
Zimbabwe Rhodesia, is founded.
*
1930 -
Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
*
1933 -
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in
Bloomsbury, London, England Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the
nuclear chain reaction.
*
1938 -
Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the
Germany Germans of the
Sudeten Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia.
*
1940 - Cave paintings discovered in
Lascaux,
France.
* 1940 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in
Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
*
1942 -
RMS Laconia (1921) RMS ''Laconia'', carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and
Italy Italian Prisoner of war POWs is
torpedoed off the coast of
West Africa and sinks.
*
1943 -
Benito Mussolini, dictator of
Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando
Otto Skorzeny
*
1944 - The liberation of
Serbia from
Nazism Nazi Germany and the
Chetniks continues.
Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.
*
1947 - The U.S.
Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-
Communism Communist loyalty oath
*
1953 -
Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
* 1953 -
John F. Kennedy marries
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Jackie Bouvier.
*
1957 -
North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD begins operations.
*
1959 - ''
Bonanza'' premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
*
1962 - President
John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and bring him back, by the end of the decade.
*
1974 -
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia, '
Messiah' of the
Rastafari movement, is deposed following a
Coup d'état military coup by the
Derg.
* 1974 - ''
African Youth Amilcar Cabral Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral'' is founded in
Guinea-Bissau.
*
1977 -
South African anti-
apartheid activist
Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
*
1979 -
Indonesia is hit with an
earthquake that measures 8.1 on the
Richter scale.
*
1980 - Military
coup d'état coup in
Turkey
*
1983 - A
Wells Fargo depot in
West Hartford, Connecticut,
United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by
Los Macheteros .
*
1990 - The two
Germany German states and the
Four Powers sign the
Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in
Moscow, paving the way for
German re-unification.
*
1992 -
NASA launches
Space Shuttle Endeavor on
STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission.
* 1992 -
Mae Jemison Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space on
STS-47.
* 1992 -
Abimael Guzmán, leader of the
Shining Path, is captured by
Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
*
1994 -
Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
*
2001 -
NATO Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first time in response to the
September 11, 2001 attacks against the
United States United States of America.
*
2003 - During the
Ontario general election, 2003, the
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party issued a press release that called the leader of the
Ontario Liberal Party an "
evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet".
* 2003 - The
United Nations lifted
sanctions against
Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the
1988 bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103
*
2005 - The
Red-Green Coalition (Norway) red-green coalition, led by
Jens Stoltenberg, wins the
Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the
Stortinget parliament.
* 2005 - The
England Cricket team draw with
Australia at
the Oval to win
the Ashes for the first time in 18 years.
* 2005 -
2005 Los Angeles power outage Blackouts across
Los Angeles, California Los Angeles,
California lasting throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
* 2005 -
Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the
Gaza Strip.
* 2005 - The fifth
Disneyland theme park,
Hong Kong Disneyland, opens on
Lantau Island,
Hong Kong.
Births
*
1492 -
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d.
1519)
*
1494 - King
Francis I of France (d.
1547)
*
1575 -
Henry Hudson, English explorer
*
1605 -
William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d.
1686)
*
1688 -
Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d.
1731)
*
1690 -
Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d.
1775)
*
1725 -
Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d.
1792)
*
1740 -
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d.
1817)
*
1812 -
Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d.
1886)
*
1818 -
Richard Jordan Gatling Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d.
1903)
*
1880 -
H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d.
1956)
*
1888 -
Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d.
1972)
*
1891 - Don
Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d.
1965)
*
1892 -
Alfred A. Knopf (person) Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d.
1984)
*
1897 -
Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1956)
*
1901 -
Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d.
1975)
*
1902 -
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d.
1976)
*
1907 -
Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d.
1963
*
1913 -
Jesse Owens, American athlete (d.
1980)
*
1914 -
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d.
1999)
*
1915 -
Frank McGee (journalism) Frank McGee, American journalist (d.
1974)
*
1916 -
Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d.
1961)
*
1921 -
Stanisław Lem, Polish writer
*
1931 - Sir
Ian Holm, English actor
*
1931 -
George Jones, American singer
*
1934 -
Glenn Ashby Davis Glenn Davis, American athlete
*
1937 -
George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
*
1940 -
Mickey Lolich, baseball player
*
1942 -
Linda Gray, American actress
*
1943 -
Maria Muldaur, American singer
*
1943 -
Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
*
1944 -
Leonard Peltier, Native American activist
*
1944 -
Barry White, American singer (d.
2003)
*
1951 -
Joe Pantoliano, American actor
*
1951 -
Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
*
1952 -
Neil Peart, Canadian musician and author
*
1954 -
Peter Scolari, American actor
*
1956 -
Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d.
2003)
*
1956 -
Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
*
1957 -
Rachel Ward, English actress
*
1958 -
Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
*
1962 -
Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer/songwriter
*
1963 -
Amy Yasbeck, American actress
*
1965 -
John Norwood Fisher, American musician
*
1966 -
Ben Folds, American musician
*
1967 -
Pat Listach, baseball player
*
1968 -
Ler LaLonde, American Guitarist (
Primus (band) Primus)
*
1968 -
Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
*
1973 -
Darren Campbell, British athlete
*
1973 -
Paul Walker, American actor
*
1974 -
Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
*
1977 -
Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
*
1978 -
Ruben Studdard, American singer
*
1978 -
Benjamin McKenzie, American Actor (The O.C.)
*
1980 -
Sean Burroughs, baseball player
* 1980 -
Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
* 1980 -
Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player
*
1986 -
Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
Deaths
*
413 -
Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
*
1213 - King
Peter II of Aragon (killed in battle) (b.
1174)
*
1362 -
Pope Innocent VI
*
1369 -
Blanche of Lancaster, wife of
John of Gaunt (plague) (b.
1345)
*
1500 -
Albert, Duke of Saxony (b.
1443)
*
1612 - Tsar
Vasili IV of Russia (b.
1552)
*
1642 -
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b.
1620)
*
1660 -
Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b.
1577)
*
1665 -
Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b.
1596)
*
1672 -
Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b.
1615)
*
1683 - King
Afonso VI of Portugal (b.
1643)
*
1691 -
John George III, Elector of Saxony (b.
1647)
*
1712 -
Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b.
1637)
*
1733 -
François Couperin, French composer (b.
1668)
*
1764 -
Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b.
1683)
*
1976 -
Maciej Zurawski, Polish footballer
*
1779 -
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b.
1711)
*
1819 -
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b.
1742)
*
1836 -
Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b.
1801)
*
1870 -
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b.
1836)
*
1918 -
George Reid (Australian politician) George Reid, fourth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1845)
*
1919 -
Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b.
1871)
*
1923 -
Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b.
1841)
*
1927 -
Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b.
1847)
*
1929 -
Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b.
1865)
*
1941 -
Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1869)
*
1945 -
Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (commited
suicide, b.
1880)
*
1953 -
Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b.
1884)
*
1956 -
Hans Carossa, German writer (b.
1878)
*
1961 -
Carl Hermann, German physicist (b.
1898)
*
1968 -
Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b.
1894)
*
1972 -
William Boyd (actor) William Boyd, American actor (b.
1895)
*
1977 -
Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b.
1946)
*
1981 -
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896)
*
1992 -
Anthony Perkins, American actor (b.
1932)
*
1993 -
Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b.
1917)
* 1993 -
Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b.
1913)
*
1994 -
Tom Ewell, American actor (b.
1909)
* 1994 -
Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (b.
1937)
* 1994 -
Frank Eugene Corder, suicide pilot crashed into the White House lawn (b.
1956)
*
2001 -
Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b.
1927)
*
2003 -
Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b.
1932)
Holidays and observances
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - Holy Name of Mary
Also see
September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Public holidays in Cape Verde Cape Verde -
National Day
*
Ethiopia - National Revolution Day (
1974)
*
Maryland (
United States) -
Defenders Day
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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'''See also:'''
September 11 -
September 13 -
August 12 -
October 12 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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