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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
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
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.
1957 - 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 safely bring him back, by the end of the decade.
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 who becomes 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, on the 4th launch attempt, Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-51 which marked the 57th Space Shuttle mission. During this spectacular mission the ACTS was inserted into orbit as well as (temporarily) SPAS. Practice was also gained for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission through EVA. This mission ended with the 6th night landing of the Shuttle, at The Kennedy Space Centre.
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 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.

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)
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, 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, American journalist (d. 1974)
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1921 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer
1922 - Ellen Demming, American actress
1925 - Stan Lopata, American baseball player
1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
1931 - George Jones, American country singer
1934 - 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 drummer and author (Rush)
1954 - Peter Scolari, American actor
1956 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1956 - Barry Andrews, British musician and songwriter
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)
1968 - John Stutz, American photographer
1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Maciej Zurawski, Polish footballer
1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977 - David Thomspon, English footballer
1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
1978 - Benjamin McKenzie, American actor (The O.C.)
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
1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer

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)
1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
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)
1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed 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, American actor (b. 1895)
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1991 - Chris Von Erich, Professional wrestler
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

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

External links

BBC: On This Day

See also:

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

Gourt Home::Gourt :: September 12

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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