Historical Events on September 12 (original) (raw)
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Battle of Marathon
490 BC Traditional date of the Battle of Marathon, where a small Athenian force defeats the Persian Empire
- 1015 Henry I becomes Count of Leuven
- 1213 Battle of Muret: Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort and an army of French Crusaders defeat Peter II of Aragon at Muret in France
Treaty of Interest
1217 Prince Louis of France and King Henry III of England sign the Treaty of Lambeth, ending the First Barons' War
- 1229 Aragonese army led by James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, to conquer the island
- 1396 Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
Treaty of Venlo
1543 Treaty of Venlo signed by William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg giving up the Duchy of Guelders, to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1st Submarine Tested
1624 First submarine is publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I
- 1635 Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
- 1639 Lord Deputy of Ireland Thomas Wentworth is recalled to England
Flamsteed Inspired
1662 John Flamsteed sees partial solar eclipse, stirs his interest in astronomy
- 1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire
- 1695 New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
- 1703 Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage
- 1703 English army under Arch Duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
- 1720 Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
- 1722 Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent in Persia
- 1733 Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
- 1751 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
Casanova Imprisoned
1755 Giacomo Casanova is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Venice without trial for affront to religion and common decency
Messier Catalogue
1758 French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula and begins his Messier Catalogue
- 1759 British soldiers capture the town of Quebec
Nathan Hale's Mission
1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
The Friend of the People
1789 Jean-Paul Marat publishes the first issue of his radical newspaper Le Publiciste parisien, later called L'Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People) in Paris
- 1814 Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
- 1824 Moreton Bay Penal Settlement established at Redcliffe, Queensland, with about 30 convicts (modern Brisbane, Australia) [1]
- 1829 Greek War of Independence ends after 8 years and 6 months
- 1846 HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, the British expedition searching for a Northwest Passage, led by John Franklin, become trapped by ice near King William Island (all eventually perish) [1]
- 1847 Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins
- 1848 Switzerland becomes a Federal state
Discovery of Gold in California
1857 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the 'Ship of Gold', sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tonnes of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered 1988)
Battle of Harpers Ferry
1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia: Stonewall Jackson's Confederate force attacks and later captures the Union held town
- 1867 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
- 1874 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
International African Association
1876 Belgian King Leopold II opens the Brussels Geographic Conference with 40 invited mostly geographic experts. Votes to establish the International African Association.
1878 Cleopatra Needle installed in London
1885 Highest football score recorded in any 1st-class soccer match: Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord in Scotland
Fort Salisbury Founded
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonists found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe)
- 1895 Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] arrives in Chicago to complete first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle in 15 months and collects her $10,000 prize
- 1895 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup
- 1897 Battle of Saragarhi: Thousands of Orakzai and Afridi tribesmen overwhelm and kill at great cost to themselves 21 British Raj Sikh Soldiers led by Havildar Ishar Singh at Tirah, North-West Frontier Province, British India
- 1901 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
- 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 1908 Canada appoints a Civil Service Commission, initiating a more equitable system for selecting civil servants
- 1909 World's first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann
Symphony of A Thousand
1910 Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony "Symphony of a Thousand" premieres in Munich with 1,028 musicians
- 1910 United States' first known female police officer, Alice Stebbins Wells, is appointed by the LAPD
Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson
1911 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers dual for final time; Boston Rustlers' Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of the Giants; NY wins, 11-2
- 1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
- 1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
- 1918 WWI: US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
Hitler Joins Worker's Party
1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism
Italian Regency of Carnaro
1919 The poet Gabriele D'Annunzio organizes a militant nationalist group and takes Fiume (Rijeka) for Italy
1920 VII Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympisch Stadion in Antwerp, Belgium
1923 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co.
1927 Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC
1928 San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane makes landfall in Guadeloupe, French Antilles as category 4 storm, killing 1,200; additional damage and fatalities on neighboring islands of Martinique, Montserrat, and Nevis
Baseball History
1930 Brooklyn catcher Al López hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
- 1931 Inaugural Bledisloe Cup rugby match played between Australia and New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland - NZ win 20-13
- 1932 Brooklyn Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
- 1932 German government of Papen falls and the Reichstag dissolved
- 1933 Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
- 1933 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
Szilárd Conceives Nuclear Chain Reaction
1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of a nuclear chain reaction
- 1934 "L'Atalante", French film directed by Jean Vigo, starring Michel Simon, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté, is released
- 1934 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
Howard Hughes' Record Flight
1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed H-1 racer plane at then record 352.46 mph (567 km/hr) at Santa Ana, California
- 1938 Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
- 1940 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes u in New Jersey
Dog Unearths Cave of Antiquity
1940 Four teens follow their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France, and discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings
- 1940 Italian troops enter Egypt
- 1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)
- 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
- 1942 Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
Event of Interest
1943 General Charles de Gaulle's Free France resistance forces land on Italian-occupied Corsica
- 1944 Noorbeek becomes the first liberated community in the Netherlands during World War II
Second Quebec Conference
1944 Second Quebec Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec City, Canada to discuss Allied occupation zones, the Morgenthau Plan, U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Britain and the role of the Royal Navy
- 1944 US Army troops enter Germany for 1st time
- 1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
Baseball Record
1947 Pittsburgh's future Baseball HOF left fielder Ralph Kiner hits 2 HRs in Pirates' 4-3 win over the Boston Braves at Forbes Field; record 8th HR in 4 games
India Invades Hyderabad
1948 Indian Army Invades the State of Hyderabad a day after Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah passes away
First West German Elections
1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st President of the German Federal Republic (West Germany) with Konrad Adenauer the 1st Prime Minister
1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team, defeating Milwaukee Braves 5-2. Brooklyn finishes season with record of 105-49.
1954 MLB Chicago White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they reach this many wins since 1920
1954 MLB Cleveland Indians sweep New York Yankees at home (Municipal Stadium) before largest American League crowd (86,563)
1954 WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, Maine (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
1957 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
First Integrated Circuit
1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit (IC) to his supervisor
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Little Rock Crisis
1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate
Bonanza
1959 American western series "Bonanza" starring Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon premieres on NBC-TV
- 1959 Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
- 1959 Luna 2 is launched by the Soviet Union, the first spacecraft to impact the Moon
JFK on Catholicism
1960 John F. Kennedy states he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.
- 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
- 1963 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1964 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
World Record Long Jump
1964 American long jumper Ralph Boston sets then world record 27' 4 1⁄4" (8.34m) at Los Angeles, California
- 1964 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964 Film that started Spaghetti Western genre "A Fistful of Dollars" premieres in Italy, directed by Sergio Leone, and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role
- 1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
- 1965 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
- 1966 KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 NASA's Gemini XI with Pete Conrad and Richard F. Gordon aboard, launched for 71-hour flight
- 1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching
- 1966 WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast
- 1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
- 1970 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1970 Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 16 launched to the moon
- 1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the 1st time at Heathrow airport
- 1970 US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
- 1972 Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as President International Olympic Committee
Maude
1972 TV sitcom "Maude", a spin-off of "All In The Family", starring Bea Arthur and Bill Macy premieres on CBS
- 1973 2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
- 1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Haile Selassie Overthrown
1974 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie on Ethiopia's national day
- 1974 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
Wish You Were Here
1975 Pink Floyd releases their ninth album "Wish You Were Here"
1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
1977 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police
1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage
1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
1979 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale
1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
1981 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand: "All hell breaks loose" as anti-tour supporters fight police and planes flour-bomb the deciding third match won by the All Blacks 25-22 [1]
1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
European Marathon
1982 European Championship marathon won by Dutchman Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota of Portugal (2:36:04)
- 1983 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
- 1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
- 1983 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
Barbara Mandrell Injured
1984 American country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
Lauper on The Tonight Show
1984 Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on The Tonight Show
1984 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1985 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
1986 Limited U.S. premiere of film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play "'Night, Mother"
1986 MLB Minnesota Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
1986 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
1987 Ethiopia adopts constitution
1987 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1990 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
1991 Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Minnesota Twins is his 312th career win
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1992 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
Mae Jemison
1992 Mae Jemison is the 1st African American woman to go into space (aboard Endeavour STS-47)
- 1992 NASA launches STS-47 (Endeavour 2)
Baseball History
1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
1993 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1993 Wang Junxia runs a women's 3000 m world record (8:12.29) at the Chinese National Games
1994 American country singer-songwriter George Jones undergoes successful triple bypass surgery
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the south lawn of the White House, killing himself
1994 Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
1995 Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots
1997 NY Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
1997 The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program
1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor
2000 Netherlands passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce
2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.
2001 Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2003 In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2004 Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Bears 20-16 at Soldier Field to snap their NFL-record 24-game road losing streak
2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay on Lantau Island, Hong Kong
2005 Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip after dismantling Israeli settlements and withdrawing its soldiers
2005 Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
NHL History
2005 Mark Messier announces on ESPN radio that he will retire from the NHL
- 2005 The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans.
- 2005 The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.
Joseph Estrada Convicted
2007 Former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder
Shinzō Abe to Resign
2007 Shinzō Abe announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of Japan
- 2009 Glenn Beck's 9-12 Project organizes multiple marches and demonstrations across the USA to protest government spending
- 2009 South Africa claims 3rd Tri Nations Rugby Series with 32-29 win over defending champions New Zealand in Hamilton; Steyn bros dominate with the boot; Morné kicks 2 penalties, 2 conversions & dropped goal; François, 3 penalties
Love On Top
2011 "Love On Top" single released by Beyoncé (Grammy Award Best Traditional R&B Performance 2013, Billboard Song of the Year 2012)