September 12

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

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, the Rastafarian 'Messiah', 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.

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.