September
12
Events
September
12
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 Froích
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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