UN
Day
United
Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
Events
of the day
490 BC – Battle of Marathon:
The conventionally accepted date for the Battle
of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean
allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force
of Greece.
372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10,
succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor
of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
1213 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort,
5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon
at the Battle of Muret.
1229 – The Aragonese army under the command
of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça,
Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the
island.
1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of
the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
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.
1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160
miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina,
drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew,
including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The
ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the
San Francisco Gold Rush.
1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British
Columbia, Canada is founded.
1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record
scoreline in professional football.
1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1897 – Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened
in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's
Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852
singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's
rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers
Party.
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 and self-determination
for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia.
1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux,
France.
1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company
plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people
and injures over 200.
1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians,
Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed
off the coast of West Africa and sinks with
a heavy loss of life.
1942 – World War II: First day of the Battle
of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign.
U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal
are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator
of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the
Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces
led by Otto Skorzeny.
1944 – World War II: The liberation of Serbia
from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues.
Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those
liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops
enter Germany for the first time.
1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by
the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani
leader Jinnah's death.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster
sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated
circuit.
1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly
scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket,
Lunik II, at the moon.
1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated
as a National Park.
1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of
NASA's Gemini program, and the current human
altitude record holder (except for the Apollo
lunar missions)
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, ending a reign
of 58 years.
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, is robbed of approximately
US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council
Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down
of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record
for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with
246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's
276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings,
set the current record.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica;
it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula
2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion
in damage.
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 are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American
woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese
citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee
and Jan Davis, the first married couple 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.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine
Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn,
striking the West wing and killing himself.
1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international
peace-keepers into East Timor.
2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial
interstate airline, collapses due to increased
strain on the international airline industry,
leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
2003 – The United Nations lifts 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.
2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot
and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's
Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada
is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in
Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train
and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Ailbe of Emly
Guy of Anderlecht
Holy Name of Mary
Laisrén mac Nad FroÃch
Sacerdos of Lyon
September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint
Patrick's Battalion. (Mexico)
Defenders Day (Maryland)
Earliest date on which Programmers' Day can
fall, while September 13 is the latest, celebrated
on the 256th day of the year. (Russia and programmers
around the world)
National Day (Cape Verde)
National Revolution Day (Ethiopia)
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