What happened on September 12? There are more than 314 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 12
September 12 is the 256th day of the year 2024. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Washington, District of Columbia 20398 sunrise occured at 06:46 AM and sunset occured at 07:22 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 12
- 490 BCBattle 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.
- 372Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 1213Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 1229The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
- 1609Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1683Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1814Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- 1846Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- 1847Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- 1848Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- 1857The 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.
- 1874The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1885Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
- 1890Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1906The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 1910Premiere 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)
- 1919Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 1930Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower’s XI against the Australians.
- 1933Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1938Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 1940Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1942World 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.
- 1942World 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.
- 1943World 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.
- 1944World 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.
- 1948Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
- 1952Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- 1958Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
- 1959Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1959The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1961The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1964Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- 1966Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
- 1970Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1974Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- 1974Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- 1977South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
- 1979Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- 1980Military coup in Turkey.
- 1983A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- 1983The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- 1984Dwight 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.
- 1988Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- 1990The 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.
- 1992Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path’s leadership fell as well.
- 1992NASA 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.
- 1994Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- 1999Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
- 2001Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- 2003In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- 2003The 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.
- 2005Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- 2007Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
- 2008The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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Who Were Born On September 12?
- 1492Duke Lorenzo II de' Medici of Urbino (d. 1519)
- 1494King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
- 1605William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
- 1688Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
- 1690Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
- 1725Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
- 1736Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776)
- 1740Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
- 1797Samuel Joseph May, American abolitionist (d. 1871)
- 1812Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
- 1812Sir Edward Creasy, English historian (d. 1878)
- 1818Richard Gatling, American firearms inventor (d. 1903)
- 1818Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, teacher (d. 1882)
- 1830William Sprague IV, American politician (d. 1915)
- 1852H. H. Asquith, British statesman (d. 1928)
- 1855Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
- 18661st Marquess of Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India (d. 1941)
- 1875Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
- 1880H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
- 1885Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
- 1888Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
- 1891Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times 1935-61 (d. 1968)
- 1891Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence advocate (d. 1965)
- 1892Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher (d. 1984)
- 1894Billy Gilbert, American actor and comedian (d. 1971)
- 1895Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic artist (d. 1973)
- 1897Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
- 1898Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (d. 1943)
- 1898Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American artist (d. 1969)
- 1898Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
- 1901Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
- 1901Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-born Israeli agronomist (d. 1999)
- 1902Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, Brazilian politician (d. 1976)
- 1905Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim known as the “Pyjama Girl” (d. 1934)
- 1907Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
- 1909Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
- 1913Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist
- 1913Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
- 1914Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
- 1914Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
- 1915Billy Daniels, American singer with big bands and solo (d. 1988)
- 1915Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1916Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1916Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
- 1917Han Suyin, Eurasian novelist
- 1917Pierre Sévigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
- 1920Irene Dailey, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1921Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
- 1922Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1922Jackson Mac Low, American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright(d. 2004)
- 1922Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (d. 2009)
- 1925Stan Lopata, American baseball player
- 1927Freddie Jones, English character actor
- 1927Mathé Altéry, French singer
- 1928Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-born American basketball player and physician
- 1929Harvey Schmidt, American composer for musical theatre
- 1930Larry Austin, American composer
- 1931Bill McKinney, American actor
- 1931George Jones, American country music singer
- 1931Sir Ian Holm, English actor
- 1933Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
- 1934Glenn Davis, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1934Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher
- 1937George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
- 1938Claude Ruel, French Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1938Tatiana Troyanos, American mezzo-soprano (d. 1993)
- 1939Henry Waxman, American politician
- 1939Phillip Ramey, American composer, pianist, and writer on music
- 1940Linda Gray, American actress
- 1940Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
- 1940Patrick Mower, English actor
- 1940Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1942François Tavenas, Canadian academic (d. 2004)
- 1942Michel Drucker, French journalist and television host
- 1942Tomás Marco, Spanish/Basque composer
- 1943Maria Muldaur, American singer
- 1943Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan writer
- 1944Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1944Colin Young, American singer
- 1944Leonard Peltier, American activist
- 1944Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
- 1945John Mauceri, American conductor
- 1946Tony Bellamy, American guitarist, pianist and vocalist
- 1947Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
- 1948Bruce Mahler, American actor
- 1948Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor
- 1948Max Walker, Australian cricketer
- 1949Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
- 1950Cynthia Myers, American model
- 1950Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
- 1950Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist, radio host and politician
- 1950Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer & musician (The Temptations) (d. 2010)
- 1951Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
- 1951Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998)
- 1951Joe Pantoliano, American actor
- 1951Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union player (d. 2007)
- 1952Gerry Beckley, American musician (America)
- 1952Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, lyricist and author (Rush)
- 1954Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1955Peter Scolari, American actor
- 1956Barry Andrews, British musician
- 1956Brian Robertson, Scottish rock guitarist
- 1956Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong artist and director (d. 2003)
- 1956Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
- 1956Sam Brownback, American politician
- 1956Walter Woon, Singaporean attorney and politician
- 1957Hans Zimmer, German composer
- 1957Rachel Ward, English actress
- 1958Gregg Edelman, American actor
- 1958Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
- 1959Scott Brown, American politician
- 1960Stefanos Korkolis, Greek songwriter and pianist
- 1961Kathem Al Saher, Iraqi singer
- 1961Mylène Farmer, French singer and songwriter
- 1962Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- 1962Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer
- 1963Paul Bellini, Canadian screenwriter, comedian
- 1964Dieter Hecking, German footballer
- 1964Simon Bowthorpe, British businessman
- 1965Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host
- 1965John Norwood Fisher, American musician
- 1965Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player
- 1966Ben Folds, American musician
- 1966Darren E. Burrows, American actor
- 1966Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player
- 1967Jason Statham, English actor
- 1967Louis C.K., American comedian
- 1967Pat Listach, American baseball player
- 1968Ler LaLonde, American guitarist (Primus)
- 1968Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
- 1968Richard Snell, South African cricketer
- 1969Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
- 1969James Frey, American writer
- 1969Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
- 1970Josh Hopkins, American actor
- 1970Nathan Larson, American musician (Shudder To Think, Hot One)
- 1971Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and composer
- 1972Sidney, Brazilian footballer
- 1973Darren Campbell, British athlete
- 1973Ki-Jana Carter, American football player
- 1973Martin Lapointe, Canadian hockey player
- 1973Paul Walker, American actor
- 1974Caroline Aigle, French fighter pilot (d. 2007)
- 1974Jennifer Nettles, American country singer (Sugarland)
- 1974Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
- 1975Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1976Bizzy Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1976Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
- 1977David Thompson, English footballer
- 1977Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host
- 1977Idan Raichel, Israeli musician
- 1977James McCartney, British musician, son of Paul McCartney
- 1977Jeff Irwin, American musician
- 1977Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
- 1978Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
- 1978Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
- 1978Ruben Studdard, American singer
- 1980Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1980Gus G., Greek musician
- 1980Joe Loeffler, American musician (Chevelle)
- 1980Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1980Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
- 1980Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- 1981Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer
- 1981Jennifer Hudson, American actress and singer
- 1981Marty Adams, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1981Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
- 1982Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
- 1982Zoran Planinic, Croatian basketball player
- 1983Carly Smithson, Irish singer
- 1983Clayton Richard, American baseball player
- 1983Daniel Muir, American football player
- 1983Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist
- 1983Sergio Parisse, Argentina-born Italian rugby player
- 1984September, Swedish singer
- 1985Jonatan Cerrada, Belgian singer and actor
- 1986Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1986Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
- 1986Joanne Jackson, English swimmer
- 1988Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer
- 1989Andrew Luck, American football player
- 1989Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
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Who Died On September 12?
- 413Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
- 1185Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
- 1213King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
- 1362Pope Innocent VI
- 1369Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
- 1500Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
- 1612Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
- 1642Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
- 1660Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
- 1665Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
- 1672Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
- 1683King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
- 1691John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
- 1695Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
- 1712Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
- 1764Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
- 1779Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
- 1810Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (b. 1740)
- 1814Robert Ross, British Army officer prominent in the War of 1812 (b. 1766)
- 1819Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
- 1836Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1869Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
- 1870Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
- 1874François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
- 1903Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria, Australia (b. 1834)
- 1907Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (b. 1837)
- 1912Pierre-Hector Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (b. 1829)
- 1918George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- 1919Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
- 1923Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
- 1927Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
- 1929Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1938Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
- 1945Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
- 1953Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- 1953Lewis Stone, American character actor (b. 1879)
- 1956Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
- 1956Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
- 1960Dino Borgioli, Italian lyric tenor (b. 1891)
- 1961Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
- 1962Spot Poles, American baseball player b. 1887
- 1967Vladimir Bartol, Slovene writer (b. 1903)
- 1968Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
- 1970Ottilie Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Rose Sutro (b. 1872)
- 1972William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1977Les Haylen, Australian politician and novelist (b. 1898)
- 1977Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
- 1977Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
- 1978Sir William Hudson, Australian engineer, head of construction for the Snowy Mountains Scheme (b. 1896)
- 1981Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1982Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
- 1986Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
- 1990Athene Seyler, English actress and centenarian (b. 1889)
- 1991Bruce Matthews, Canadian Army officer and businessman (b. 1909)
- 1992Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1993Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
- 1993Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
- 1994Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
- 1994Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1995Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
- 1996Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (b. 1907)
- 1999Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- 2000Konrad Kujau, German illustrator and forger of the Hitler Diaries (b. 1938)
- 2000Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 2001Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
- 2003Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
- 2004Kenny Buttrey, American drummer, b. 1945
- 2008Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
- 2008David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
- 2009Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
- 2009Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
- 2009Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
- 2010Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2010Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
- 2011Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
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