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
- 1944 - The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Ustaša continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.
- 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, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement , 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland is scheduled to open to the public in Hong Kong. The park will be the fifth Disneyland in the world.
Births
- 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian politician (d. 1492)
- 1494 - King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
- 1575 - Henry Hudson, Dutch explorer
- 1605 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
- 1688 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
- 1690 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
- 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 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- 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
- 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
- 1931 - George Jones, American 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, American activist
- 1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor
- 1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian musician and author
- 1954 - Peter Scolari, American actor
- 1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
- 1957 - Rachel Ward, English actress
- 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
- 1963 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- 1966 - Ben Folds, American musician
- 1967 - Pat Listach, baseball player
- 1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
- 1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
- 1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
- 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- 1980 - Sean Burroughs, baseball player
- 1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
Deaths
- 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
- 1213 - King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
- 1362 - Pope Innocent VI (b. 1282)
- 1642 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
- 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)
- 1836 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
- 1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- 1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
- 1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- 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 (b. 1896)
- 1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1993 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
- 1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
- 1994 - Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1994 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances
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See also:
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days