September 12

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 12. From 1900 until now. September 12 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Mylène Farmer (1961), Paul Walker (1973) and Michel Drucker (1942). Several movies were released around September 12 over the years, such as The Intouchables in 2011 directed by Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano and Faust in 1926 directed by F.W. Murnau.
But much more happened on September 12 over the years: find out below

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Also see September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Maryland (United States) - Defenders Day
Cape Verde - National Day
Ethiopia - National Revolution Day (1974)
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2018 War in Afghanistan: The death toll from yesterday's suicide attack on protesters in eastern Afghanistan rises to 68. (Al Jazeera)
2017 2016 United States presidential election: Hillary Clinton releases the book What Happened, a memoir about her most recent presidential campaign. Clinton has implied that she may not run again in 2020. (CNN)
2016 Moro conflict: Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines allegedly kidnap three Filipino fishermen from their trawler off the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island. (International Business Times) (The Sun Daily)
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen, Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: A drone strike kills four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in northern Yemen. (Reuters via Trust)Medics claim that at least 16 other people have been killed in Saudi led airstrikes. (Reuters)Houthi militants backed by allied Yemeni troops seize control of four Saudi military bases in Saudi Arabia's southern 'Asir Region according to Yemeni state TV. (Press TV)
2014 Central African Republic conflict (2012–present):: More than 5,000 people have died in the Central African Republic in the past 9 months. (AP via Washington Post)
2013 Islamic insurgency in the Philippines:: The Moro National Liberation Front attacks the Philippines town of Lamitan with five people missing and two injured. (AP)
2012 Syrian civil war
2011 Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi.
2010 At least 3 people are killed by a United States missile attack on a home where associates of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hafiz Gul Bahadur were believed to be staying in northwest Pakistan. (AP via Fox News)
2009 Police in the Madagascar capital Antananarivo disperse small groups of opposition supporters opposed to the administration of Andry Rajoelina. (IOL)
2008 The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2007 US dollar falls to new low versus euro: $1.39.
2006 Cypriot authorities respond to an Interpol alert and intercept ''Grigorio-1,'' a North Korean ship bound for Syria. Cypriot security agents found a mobile air defense system and the components of a missile launcher in the ship, though the Government of North Korea insists the ship only contained weather-observation equipment. The Syrian government has requested the ship be allowed to dock in Syria. (World Tribune)
2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
2004 The Hong Kong Legislative Council election, 2004 achieves record turnout. In the direct election, the pro-democracy parties gain one seat and receive 60 percent of the vote while the pro-government parties unexpectedly gain seven seats. (BBC)
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.
2002 U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations, and challenges its members to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Iraq, or stand aside as the United States and likeminded nations act.
2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
1998 Bosnian general election, 1998: Votes in Bosnia and Herzegovina go to the polls for a general election.
1997 New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
1996 Ricardo López sends a package, containing an acid bomb, to Icelandic singer Björk with the intention to kill or disfigure her, and then commits suicide. The package is intercepted by the Scotland Yard four days later, before doing any harm.
1994 Cessna crashes in White House front yard
1993 113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
1992 106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1990 Les Miserables, opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
1989 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
1987 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
1986 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of US$7 million.
1982 102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)
1981 95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76)
1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
1978 Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1974 Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1973 Two bettors win the largest US Daily Double (US$19,909.60 in Detroit, Michigan).
1972 Ciod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea
1971 85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)
1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1966 Monkees premieres on NBC-TV
1965 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, causing $17.5 million damage.
1963 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
1958 US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
1957 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
1955 KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
1953 Carnival in Flanders closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 performances
1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st President / Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of German FR
1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
1947 Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games
1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
1945 The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in Singapore.
1944 Noorbeek and Mheer freed
1943 Free French lands on Corsica
1942 Free-Poland and Belgium asks Pope to condemn Nazi-war crimes
1941 1st German ship in WWII captured by US ship (Busko)
1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1938 Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1936 50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
1935 55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63)
1934 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
1933 Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
1932 German government of Papen falls / Reichstag dissolved
1931 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75)
1930 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.
1925 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
1923 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Company
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
1920 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
1919 Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1910 Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
1907 Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1901 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine.
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