September 12
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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.
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Events
\n*490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon\n*1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River\n*1683 - Battle of Vienna\n*1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning\n*1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia is founded\n*1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.\n*1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia\n*1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France\n*1940 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people. \n*1943 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny\n*1947 - Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath\n*1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union\n*1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier\n*1959 - Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color\n*1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade\n*1974 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie deposed\n*1980 - Military coup in Turkey\n*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.\n*1992 - Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space\n*1994 - The Netscape browser is released\n*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.\n*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
\n*1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian politician (d. 1492)\n*1812 - Richard Hoe, inventor, industrialist (d. 1886)\n*1818 - Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun (d. 1903)\n*1880 - H.L. Mencken, journalist, author (d. 1956)\n*1888 - Maurice Chevalier, singer, actor (d. 1972)\n*1891 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)\n*1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist (d. 1956)\n*1901 - Ben Blue, vaudeville star (d. 1975)\n*1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (d. 1985)\n*1912 - Jacques Fath, French couturier (d. 1954)\n*1913 - Jesse Owens, athlete (d. 1980)\n*1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)\n*1915 - Frank McGee, journalist (d. 1974)\n*1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, race car driver (d. 1961)\n*1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)\n*1921 - Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer\n*1931 - Sir Ian Holm, actor\n* 1931 - George Jones, country music singer\n*1934 - Glenn Davis, Olympic Games track and field gold medalist\n*1937 - George Chuvalo, Croatian - Canadian boxing champion\n*1940 - Mickey Lolich, baseball pitcher\n*1943 - Maria Muldaur, singer\n* 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, author and poet\n*1944 - Barry White, singer (d. 2003)\n*1951 - Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Matrix, The Sopranos)\n*1952 - Neil Peart, musician\n*1954 - Peter Scolari, actor\n*1956 - Ricky Rudd, NASCAR race car driver\n*1957 - Rachel Ward, actress\n*1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, three time world champion boxer\n*1966 - Ben Folds, musician\n*1973 - Paul Walker, actor\n* 1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete\n*1978 - Ruben Studdard, winner of the second American Idol\n*1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese NBA star
Deaths
\n*1213 - King Peter II of Aragon\n*1362 - Pope Innocent VI\n*1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer\n*1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia\n*1972 - William Boyd, actor\n*1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist\n*1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor\n*1993 - Willie Mosconi, billiards champion\n*1993 - Raymond Burr, actor\n*1994 - Tom Ewell, actor\n*1994 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut\n*2003 - Johnny Cash, country music singer and guitarist
Holidays and observances
\n*Programmer's day on leap years.\n----\nSee also:
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days
