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September 12 is the first date to have its own wiki , and 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
- 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the
Hudson River
- 1683 - Battle of
Vienna
- 1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert
Browning
- 1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia is founded
- 1933 - Leo Szilard, 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.
- 1943 - Benito Mussolini,
dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny
- 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
- 1962 - President John F.
Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade
- 1974 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie deposed
- 1980 - Military coup in
Turkey
- 1992 - Mae Carol
Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space
- 1994 - The Netscape
browser is released
- 2001 - NATO Article V of the NATO agreement is
invoked for the first time in response to the September 11 Terrorist Attack 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, Dalton McGuinty, an "Evil reptilian
kitten-eater from another planet". It proved to be an embarrassment that helped the Tories lose the election.
Births
- 1449 - Lorenzo de
Medici, Italian politician (d. 1492)
- 1812 - Richard Hoe, inventor, industrialist (d. 1886)
- 1818 - Richard Gatling,
inventor of the Gatling gun (d. 1903)
- 1880 - H.L. Mencken, journalist,
author (d. 1956)
- 1888 - Maurice
Chevalier, singer, actor (d. 1972)
- 1891 - Don Pedro Albizu
Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
- 1897 - Irene
Joliot-Curie, scientist (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Ben Blue, vaudeville star (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Margaret
Hamilton, actress (d. 1985)
- 1912 - Jacques Fath, French couturier (d. 1954)
- 1913 - Jesse Owens, athlete (d.
1980)
- 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn,
actor (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Frank McGee, journalist (d. 1974)
- 1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, race car driver (d. 1961)
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of
Israel (d. 1997)
- 1921 - Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer
- 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, actor
- 1931 - George Jones, country music singer
- 1934 - Glenn Davis, Olympic Games track and field
gold medalist
- 1937 - George Chuvalo,
Croatian - Canadian boxing champion
- 1940 - Mickey Lolich, baseball pitcher
- 1943 - Maria Muldaur, singer
- 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, author and poet
- 1944 - Barry White, singer (d.
2003)
- 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, actor
(The Matrix, The
Sopranos)
- 1952 - Neil Peart, musician
- 1954 - Peter Scolari, actor
- 1956 - Ricky Rudd, NASCAR race car driver
- 1957 - Rachel Ward, actress
- 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez,
three time world champion boxer
- 1966 - Ben Folds, musician
- 1973 - Paul Walker, actor
- 1978 - Ruben Studdard, winner
of the second American Idol
- 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese NBA
star
Deaths
- 1213 - King Peter II of
Aragon
- 1362 - Pope Innocent
VI
- 1764 - Jean-Philippe
Rameau, composer
- 1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1972 - William Boyd, actor
- 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid
activist
- 1992 - Anthony Perkins,
actor
- 1993 - Willie Mosconi,
billiards champion
- 1993 - Raymond Burr, actor
- 1994 - Tom Ewell, actor
- 1994 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut
- 2003 - Johnny Cash, country music singer and guitarist
Holidays and observances
See also:
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all
days
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