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What happened on September 12
On September 12 history recorded 67 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 99 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 67events
- 160births
- 99deaths
- 17observances
Highlights
Highlights
379Yax Nuun Ahiin I (depicted) took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal.
Yax Nuun Ahiin I, also known as Curl Snout and Curl Nose, was a 4th-century ruler of the Maya city of Tikal. His name, when transcribed, is YAX-?-AH:N, translated "First ? Crocodile". He took the throne on 12 September 379 and reigned until his death. He is re
1309Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista con
1885The Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord ended 36–0, which is still a world record for an unrigged professional association football match.
The 1885–86 Scottish Cup was the 13th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Queen's Park won the competition for the eighth time after they beat defending champions Renton 3–1 in the final.
September 12
On this day
V century BC
- 490 BC
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.
IV century
XII century
XIII century
- 1213
1213Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret. - 1229
1229Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. - 1297
1297The Treaty of Alcañices, mediated by the pope, between the king Denis of Portugal and king Ferdinand IV of Castile defines the border between the two countries and establishes an alliance of friendship.
XIV century
XVII century
- 1609
1609Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen. - 1634
1634A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings. - 1683
1683Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
XVIII century
XIX century
- 1814
1814Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. - 1847
1847Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins. - 1848
1848A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state. - 1857
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 California gold rush. - 1885
1885Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional association football. - 1890
1890Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. - 1897
1897Tirah campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
XX century
- 1906
1906The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. - 1910
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). - 1915
1915French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh. - 1923
1923Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom. - 1933
1933Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. - 1938
1938Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. - 1940
1940Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. - 1940
1940The Hercules Powder plant disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200. - 1942
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. - 1942
1942World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops. - 1943
1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. - 1944
1944World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities. - 1953
1953U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. - 1958
1958Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments. - 1959
1959The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon. - 1959
1959Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States. - 1961
1961The African and Malagasy Union is founded. - 1961
1961Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people. - 1962
1962US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University. - 1966
1966Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions). - 1969
1969Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people. - 1970
1970Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. - 1974
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. - 1977
1977South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody. - 1980
1980The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren. - 1980
1980Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off West End, Bahamas, killing 34 people. - 1983
1983A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros. - 1983
1983The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. - 1984
1984Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record. - 1988
1988Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage. - 1990
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 reunification. - 1990
1990The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait. - 1991
1991NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. - 1992
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. - 1992
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. - 1993
1993NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51. - 1994
1994Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
XXI century
- 2001
2001Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. - 2003
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. - 2003
2003Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. - 2003
2003Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan. - 2005
2005Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished. - 2007
2007Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder. - 2007
2007Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161. - 2008
2008The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. - 2012
2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four. - 2013
2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. - 2014
2014Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua. - 2021
2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
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Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day: Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly
- Christian feast day: Guy of Anderlecht
- Christian feast day: The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Christian feast day: John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Laisrén mac Nad Froích
- Christian feast day: Sacerdos of Lyon
- Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas of Zumárraga
- Christian feast day: September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion (Mexico)
- Day of Conception (Russia)
- Defenders Day (Maryland, United States)
- Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)
- Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church) (leap years only, September 11 on normal years)
- National Day (Cape Verde)
Frequently asked questions
What happened on September 12?
67 documented historical events happened on September 12, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Yax Nuun Ahiin I (depicted) took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal. On the same day, in another year: Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on September 12?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on September 12, including Ian Holm, George Jones, Atli Dam. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on September 12?
99 people with a Wikipedia article died on September 12, including Sak Kʼukʼ, Andronikos I Komnenos, Pope Innocent VI. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on September 12?
17 observances are celebrated on September 12 around the world: Christian feast day: Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly, Christian feast day: Guy of Anderlecht, Christian feast day: The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Christian feast day: John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA)), Christian feast day: Laisrén mac Nad Froích, Christian feast day: Sacerdos of Lyon. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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