September 12
September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years ). There are 110 days remaining.
Events
490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon
1213 - Peter II of Aragon , the king of Aragon , died at the Battle of Muret .
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River
1683 - Austro-Ottoman War : Battle of Vienna - Several European armies joined forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire .
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning .
1847 - Battle of Chapultepec
1890 - Salisbury , Rhodesia is founded.
1930 - Wilfred Rhodes end 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
1947 - Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier
1957 - NORAD began operations.
1959 - Bonanza 1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia , the Rastafarian 'Messiah ', is deposed following a military coup by the Derg .
1980 - Military coup in Turkey
1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut 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 - Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space
1992 - Abimael Guzmán , leader of the Shining Path , was captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
1994 - The Netscape web browser is released.
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 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 Libya agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 .
Births
1449 - Lorenzo de Medici , Italian politician (d. 1492 )
1494 - King Francis I of France (d. 1547 )
1812 - Richard Hoe , inventor, industrialist (d. 1886 )
1818 - Richard Gatling , inventor of the Gatling gun (d. 1903 )
1880 - H. L. Mencken , journalist, author (d. 1956 )
1888 - Maurice Chevalier , singer, actor (d. 1972 )
1891 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos , advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965 )
1892 - Alfred A. Knopf , American publisher (d. 1984 )
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie , scientist (d. 1956 )
1901 - Ben Blue , vaudeville star (d. 1975 )
1902 - Margaret Hamilton , actress (d. 1985 )
1912 - Jacques Fath , French couturier (d. 1954 )
1913 - Jesse Owens , athlete (d. 1980 )
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn , actor (d. 1999 )
1915 - Frank McGee , journalist (d. 1974 )
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen , race car driver (d. 1961 )
1921 - Stanislaw Lem , science fiction writer
1931 - Sir Ian Holm , actor
1931 - George Jones , country music singer
1934 - Glenn Davis , Olympic Games track and field gold medalist
1937 - George Chuvalo , Croatian - Canadian boxing champion
1940 - Mickey Lolich , baseball pitcher
1943 - Maria Muldaur , singer
1943 - Michael Ondaatje , author and poet
1944 - Barry White , singer (d. 2003 )
1951 - Joe Pantoliano , actor (The Matrix The Sopranos 1952 - Neil Peart , musician
1954 - Peter Scolari , actor
1956 - Ricky Rudd , NASCAR race car driver
1957 - Rachel Ward , actress
1958 - Wilfredo Benitez , three time world champion boxer
1966 - Ben Folds , musician
1973 - Paul Walker , actor
1973 - Darren Campbell , British athlete
1978 - Ruben Studdard , winner of the second American Idol 1980 - Yao Ming , Chinese NBA star
1980 - Sean Burroughs , Major league baseball player
Deaths
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage martyred.
1213 - King Peter II of Aragon
1362 - Pope Innocent VI (b. 1283 )
1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow , author (b. 1836 )
1918 - George Reid , fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting , physicist and astronomer (b. 1847 )
1968 - Tommy Armour , golfer (b. 1894 )
1972 - William Boyd , actor
1977 - Steve Biko , South African anti-apartheid activist
1992 - Anthony Perkins , actor
1993 - Willie Mosconi , billiards champion
1993 - Raymond Burr , actor
1994 - Tom Ewell , actor
1994 - Boris Yegorov , cosmonaut
2003 - Johnny Cash , country music singer and guitarist
2003 - John Ritter , American actor
Holidays and observances
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See also:
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days
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