September 12: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.
• 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 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 Endeavor on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission.
• 1992 - Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space on STS-47.
• 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 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 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 - The England Cricket team draw with Australia at the Oval to win the Ashes for the first time in 18 years.
• 2005 - Blackouts across Los Angeles, California lasting throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
• 2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.

• 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)
• 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, Native American activist
• 1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor
• 1951 - Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
• 1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian musician and author
• 1954 - Peter Scolari, American actor
• 1956 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
• 1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
• 1957 - Rachel Ward, English actress
• 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
• 1963 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
• 1965 - John Norwood Fisher, American musician
• 1966 - Ben Folds, American musician
• 1967 - Pat Listach, baseball player
• 1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
• 1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
• 1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
• 1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
• 1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
• 1980 - Sean Burroughs, baseball player
• 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
• 1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• 2003 - James Farrell, son of actor Colin Farrell and model Kim Bordenave

• 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
• 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)
• 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 (commited 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)
• 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)
• 2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927
• 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)

• 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

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