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 premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color
• 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.
• 2004 – Anti-Racist Action members in Toronto follow supporters of Ernst Zundel to Jack Astors restaurant at 1900 The Queensway from a "Free Zundel" rally that took place at the Metro West Detention Centre in Etobicoke where Zundel was being held on a Security Certificate. 4 anti-racists, and 5 Zundelites were arrested.

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 – Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement activist and political prisoner
• 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)
• 1733 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
• 1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer
• 1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
• 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

• National Day in Cape Verde

External links

• BBC: On This Day

See also:

September 11 – September 13 – August 12 – October 12 — listing of all days