September 12
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September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). There are 110 days remaining.
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[edit] Events
- 490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon - but see 12 August; origin of the 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 - The Aragonese 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 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1814 - Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- 1846 - 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 Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott.
- 1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1906 - Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 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, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1940 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
- 1942 - RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian 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 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-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1948 - Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death to limit damage control. It lead to genocide of nearly 40,000 Hyderabadi Muslims by the Indian Army and Hindu mobs.
- 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1957 - NORAD begins operations.
- 1959 - Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and safely bring him back, by the end of the decade.
- 1966 - "The Royal Flush" airs as the premiere episode of The Monkees television series on NBC.
- 1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg.
- 1974 - 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 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 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 Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
- 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.
- 1993 - NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-51.
- 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- 1995 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their 6th studio album, One Hot Minute.
- 2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
- 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, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.
- 2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
- 2005 - A blackout in Los Angeles affects millions of Californians.
- 2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- 2006 - Apple computer "it's Showtime!" special event, Steve Jobs
[edit] 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 Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903)
- 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
- 1855 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
- 1880 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
- 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
- 1891 - Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
- 1892 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984)
- 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
- 1901 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- 1907 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
- 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
- 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
- 1915 - Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
- 1917 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Ellen Demming, American actress (d 2002)
- 1925 - Stan Lopata, baseball player
- 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
- 1931 - George Jones, American singer
- 1933 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
- 1934 - Glenn Davis, American athlete
- 1937 - George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
- 1940 - Mickey Lolich, baseball player
- 1940 - Linda Gray, American actress
- 1943 - Maria Muldaur, American singer
- 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
- 1944 - Leonard Peltier, American murderer
- 1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
- 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor
- 1951 - Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
- 1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and author (Rush)
- 1952 - Gerry Beckley, American musician (America)
- 1954 - Peter Scolari, American actor
- 1954 - Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1956 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
- 1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
- 1956 - Barry Andrews, British musician
- 1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
- 1957 - Rachel Ward, English actress
- 1957 - Road Warrior Hawk, wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
- 1961 - Mylène Farmer, French singer and songwriter
- 1962 - Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer
- 1962 - 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)
- 1968 - John Stutz, American photographer
- 1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
- 1969 - James Frey, American writer
- 1972 - Jason Statham, English actor
- 1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
- 1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
- 1973 - Martin Lapointe, National Hockey League player
- 1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
- 1976 - Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
- 1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
- 1977 - David Thompson, English footballer
- 1977 - James McCartney, British musician
- 1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
- 1978 - Benjamin McKenzie, American television actor
- 1980 - Gus G., Greek guitarist (Firewind, ex-Dream Evil)
- 1980 - Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player
- 1980 - Sean Burroughs, baseball player
- 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- 1982 - Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
- 1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress
- 1986 - Yang Mi, Chinese actress
[edit] Deaths
- 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
- 1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus (tortured by the City mob)
- 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)
- 1695 - Jacob Abendana, scholar (b. 1630)
- 1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
- 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
- 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)
- 1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
- 1918 - 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)
- 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed suicide, b. 1880)
- 1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- 1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
- 1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
- 1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
- 1972 - William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
- 1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1982 - Grace Kelly, American Actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- 1991 - Chris Von Erich, Professional wrestler (b. 1969)
- 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)
- 1995 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
- 2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
[edit] Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Holy Name of Mary.
- Also see September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Cape Verde - National Day.
- Ethiopia - National Revolution Day (1974).
- Maryland (United States) - Defenders Day.
[edit] External links
See also:
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 – listing of all days
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