Notable Historical Events on September 12th
September 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1015 |
Henry I becomes Count of Leuven |
1213 |
Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon |
1217 |
French prince Louis & English King Henry III sign peace treaty |
1229 |
The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. |
1396 |
Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis |
1543 |
Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik & Emperor Charles V |
1556 |
Emperor Charles abdicates in favour of his brother Ferdinand I |
1624 |
1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames before James I |
1635 |
Sweden & Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf |
1639 |
Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England |
1662 |
John Flamsteed sees partial solar eclipse, stirs his interest in astronomy |
1673 |
Prince Willem III occupies Naarden |
1683 |
Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. |
1695 |
NY 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 on Persia |
1733 |
Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king |
1745 |
Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus |
1751 |
Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto |
1758 |
French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula so begins his Messier Catalogue |
1759 |
British soldiers capture the town of Quebec. |
1776 |
Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission |
1787 |
Black Masons form 1st lodge |
1787 |
American statesman George Mason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion is defeated |
1814 |
Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 |
1847 |
Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins. |
1848 |
Switzerland becomes a Federal state. |
1857 |
423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC |
1862 |
Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
1867 |
2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated |
1874 |
1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded. |
1876 |
King Leopold II opens Congo-conference |
1878 |
Cleopatra Needle installed in London |
1882 |
Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza |
1885 |
Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set |
1888 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG) |
1890 |
Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe). |
1895 |
Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup |
1897 |
Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi |
1901 |
Arabs attack Gedara Palestine |
1906 |
The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
1907 |
Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) |
1908 |
Canada appoints a Civil Service Commission, initiating a more equitable system for selecting civil servants |
1910 |
Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians |
1910 |
World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) |
1911 |
Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0 |
1912 |
Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC) |
1914 |
Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager |
1918 |
During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel |
1920 |
7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium |
1922 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) |
1923 |
Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1925 |
20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0) |
1927 |
Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC |
1928 |
-17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000 |
1928 |
Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess" |
1930 |
Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR |
1931 |
51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (7-9 6-3 9-7 7-5) |
1932 |
Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR |
1932 |
German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
1933 |
Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government |
1933 |
Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms |
1933 |
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. |
1934 |
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR |
1935 |
55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (6-2 6-2 6-3) |
1935 |
Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
1936 |
50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (4-6 6-3 6-2) |
1936 |
56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (2-6 6-2 8-6 1-6 10-8) |
1938 |
Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech |
1940 |
49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ) |
1940 |
Italian troops enter Egypt |
1940 |
4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings |
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 |
1943 |
Free French lands on Corsica |
1943 |
Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso |
1944 |
-16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC |
1944 |
Noorbeek & Mheer freed |
1944 |
US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
1946 |
Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels |
1947 |
Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games |
1948 |
Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. |
1949 |
Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR |
1950 |
Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants |
1952 |
Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London |
1953 |
"Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 perfs |
1953 |
Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team |
1954 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
1954 |
Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563) |
1954 |
WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920 |
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 |
1958 |
US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit (IC) to his supervisor |
1959 |
"Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV |
1959 |
Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary |
1959 |
Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
1960 |
"Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1960 |
John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him. |
1961 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Wash 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 |
1964 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4½" |
1964 |
Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. |
1965 |
79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) |
1965 |
85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) |
1965 |
Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75 |
1965 |
Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open |
1965 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
1965 |
WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
17th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show & Dick Van Dyke win |
1966 |
"Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV |
1966 |
Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight |
1966 |
KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast |
1966 |
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching |
1968 |
Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact |
1970 |
1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport |
1970 |
Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) |
1970 |
Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971 |
1970 |
Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport |
1970 |
US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail |
1970 |
USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
1970 |
Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. |
1971 |
85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) |
1971 |
91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) |
1972 |
Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics |
1973 |
2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) |
1973 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1974 |
Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
1974 |
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers |
1976 |
96th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64) |
1976 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1976 |
Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24) |
1976 |
White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors |
1978 |
Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba |
1978 |
Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television |
1979 |
Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits |
1979 |
Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage |
1979 |
Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club |
1979 |
Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie |
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 |
95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76) |
1981 |
Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982 |
1981 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
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 |
1982 |
102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64) |
1982 |
Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon |
1982 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
1983 |
Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes |
1983 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1983 |
Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million |
1983 |
USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
1984 |
Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident |
1984 |
Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show |
1984 |
Ethiopia forms socialist republic |
1984 |
NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251 |
1985 |
Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds |
1986 |
240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
1986 |
Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly |
1986 |
US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut |
1987 |
101st US Womens Tennis Open: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (7-6 6-1) |
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 |
1989 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1990 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm |
1990 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1990 |
US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge |
1991 |
Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win |
1991 |
Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched |
1992 |
106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63) |
1992 |
Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii |
1992 |
STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches |
1992 |
Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min) |
1993 |
113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63) |
1993 |
Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1993 |
Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) |
1993 |
Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career |
1993 |
STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
1994 |
Cessna crashes in White House front yard |
1994 |
Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery |
1994 |
Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election |
1995 |
INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer |
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 |
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. |
1999 |
51st Emmy Awards: The Practice, Ally McBeal, Dennis Franz & Edie Falco win |
2000 |
Holland (the Netherlands) passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce. |
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. |
2001 |
Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed. |
2003 |
In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. |
2003 |
The 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. |
2005 |
The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament. |
2005 |
Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. |
2005 |
The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans. |
2005 |
Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. |
2005 |
Mark Messier announces on ESPN radio that he will retire from the NHL |
2007 |
Shinzo Abe announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of Japan. |
2007 |
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder. |
2009 |
The 9-12 Project organized multiple marches and demonstrations across the USA to protest government spending. |
2010 |
27th MTV Awards: Lady Gaga & Eminem wins |
2012 |
18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria |
2012 |
314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan |
2012 |
Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6 |
2016 |
Clinton cancels California trip after pneumonia diagnosis |
2016 |
N Korea ready for another nuclear test, says South |
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