September 12

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.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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
• 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 († 1492)
• 1812 - Richard Hoe, inventor, industrialist († 1886)
• 1818 - Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun († 1903)
• 1880 - H.L. Mencken, journalist, author († 1956)
• 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, singer, actor († 1972)
• 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist († 1956)
• 1901 - Ben Blue, vaudeville star († 1975)
• 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress († 1985)
• 1912 - Jacques Fath, French couturier († 1954)
• 1913 - Jesse Owens, athlete († 1980)
• 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor († 1999)
• 1915 - Frank McGee, journalist († 1974)
• 1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, race car driver († 1961)
• 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel († 1997)
• 1921 - Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer
• 1931 - George Jones, country music singer
• 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, actor
• 1934 - Glenn Davis, Olympic Games track and field gold medalist
• 1943 - Maria Muldaur, singer
• 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, poet
• 1944 - Barry White, singer († 2003)
• 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, actor
• 1952 - Neil Peart, musician
• 1954 - Peter Scolari, actor
• 1957 - Rachel Ward, actress
• 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, three time world champion boxer
• 1973 - Paul Walker, actor
• 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese NBA star

Deaths

• 1213 - King Peter II of Aragon
• 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
• 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

• Programmer's day on leap years.

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See also:

September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries