September 12 Events |
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September 12th, 2007 (September 12 2007) | Event | Shinzo Abe announced he resigns as Prime Minister of Japan. | |
September 12th, 2007 (September 12 2007) | Event | Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was convicted for the crime of plunder. | |
September 12th, 2005 (September 12 2005) | Event | The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament. | |
September 12th, 2005 (September 12 2005) | Event | Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. | |
September 12th, 2005 (September 12 2005) | Event | Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. | |
September 12th, 2003 (September 12 2003) | Event | The United Nations lifted 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. | |
September 12th, 2001 (September 12 2001) | Event | Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America. | |
September 12th, 2001 (September 12 2001) | Event | Ansett Australia, Australia s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed. | |
September 12th, 1995 (September 12 1995) | Event | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar s All Star Team beats the Harlem Globetrotters 91-85, ending the Globetrotters 24-year, 8,829-game winning streak. | |
September 12th, 1994 (September 12 1994) | Event | Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself. | |
September 12th, 1992 (September 12 1992) | Event | NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space. | |
September 12th, 1992 (September 12 1992) | Event | Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path s leadership fell as well. | |
September 12th, 1990 (September 12 1990) | Event | 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. | |
September 12th, 1983 (September 12 1983) | Event | A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros . | |
September 12th, 1980 (September 12 1980) | Event | Military coup in Turkey. | |
September 12th, 1979 (September 12 1979) | Event | Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale. | |
September 12th, 1977 (September 12 1977) | Event | South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody. | Steve Biko Quotes |
September 12th, 1974 (September 12 1974) | Event | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Messiah of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg. | |
September 12th, 1974 (September 12 1974) | Event | Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. | |
September 12th, 1970 (September 12 1970) | Event | Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. | |
September 12th, 1964 (September 12 1964) | Event | Canyonlands National Park was designated as a National Park. | |
September 12th, 1959 (September 12 1959) | Event | Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color. | |
September 12th, 1959 (September 12 1959) | Event | The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | |
September 12th, 1953 (September 12 1953) | Event | Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
September 12th, 1948 (September 12 1948) | Event | Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah s death to limit damage control. | |
September 12th, 1947 (September 12 1947) | Event | The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. | |
September 12th, 1944 (September 12 1944) | Event | World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Basta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. | |
September 12th, 1943 (September 12 1943) | Event | World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando Otto Skorzeny. | Otto Skorzeny Quotes |
September 12th, 1942 (September 12 1942) | Event | World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks. | |
September 12th, 1942 (September 12 1942) | Event | World 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. | |
September 12th, 1940 (September 12 1940) | Event | Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France. | |
September 12th, 1940 (September 12 1940) | Event | The Hercules Powder Company in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 51 people and injuring over 200. | |
September 12th, 1938 (September 12 1938) | Event | Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
September 12th, 1933 (September 12 1933) | Event | Leo Szilard, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. | Leo Szilard Quotes |
September 12th, 1930 (September 12 1930) | Event | Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower s XI against the Australians. | |
September 12th, 1910 (September 12 1910) | Event | Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler s 8th symphony in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers, with an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter) | |
September 12th, 1906 (September 12 1906) | Event | Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. | |
September 12th, 1897 (September 12 1897) | Event | Battle of Saragarhi | |
September 12th, 1890 (September 12 1890) | Event | Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. | |
September 12th, 1857 (September 12 1857) | Event | The 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 carried 13-15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush. | |
September 12th, 1848 (September 12 1848) | Event | Switzerland became a Federal state. | |
September 12th, 1847 (September 12 1847) | Event | Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patrick s Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott. | Saint Patrick Quotes |
September 12th, 1846 (September 12 1846) | Event | Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. | Robert Browning Quotes |
September 12th, 1814 (September 12 1814) | Event | Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. | |
September 12th, 1759 (September 12 1759) | Event | British soldiers captures the town of Quebec. | |
September 12th, 1683 (September 12 1683) | Event | Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of ViennaSeveral European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. | |
September 12th, 1609 (September 12 1609) | Event | Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River. | |
September 12th, 1229 (September 12 1229) | Event | The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponca, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. | |
September 12th, 1213 (September 12 1213) | Event | Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon, at the Battle of Muret. | |
September 12th, 0490 (September 12 0490) | Event | Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon;origin of the marathon long-distance race (attributed to Pheidippides) | |