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.

Aug - September - Oct
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
2004 day arrangement
All days

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 - 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.
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
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 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie deposed
1980 - Military coup in Turkey
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
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
1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
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

Programmer's day on leap years.

See also:

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