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.
Events 490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River 1683 - Battle of Vienna 1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning 1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia is founded 1933 - Leo Szilard, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia 1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France 1943 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny 1947 - Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier 1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade 1974 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie deposed 1980 - Military coup in Turkey 1992 - Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space 1994 - The Netscape browser is released 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. 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 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian politician († 1492) 1812 - Richard Hoe, inventor, industrialist († 1886) 1818 - Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun († 1903) 1880 - H.L. Mencken, journalist, author († 1956) 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, singer, actor († 1972) 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist († 1956) 1901 - Ben Blue, vaudeville star († 1975) 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress († 1985) 1912 - Jacques Fath, French couturier († 1954) 1913 - Jesse Owens, athlete († 1980) 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor († 1999) 1915 - Frank McGee, journalist († 1974) 1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, race car driver († 1961) 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel († 1997) 1921 - Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer 1931 - George Jones, country music singer 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, actor 1934 - Glenn Davis, Olympic Games track and field gold medalist 1943 - Maria Muldaur, singer 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, poet 1944 - Barry White, singer († 2003) 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, actor 1952 - Neil Peart, musician 1954 - Peter Scolari, actor 1957 - Rachel Ward, actress 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, three time world champion boxer 1973 - Paul Walker, actor 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese NBA star Deaths 1213 - King Peter II of Aragon 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer 1972 - William Boyd, actor 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist 1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor 1993 - Willie Mosconi, billiards champion 1993 - Raymond Burr, actor 1994 - Tom Ewell, actor 1994 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut 2003 - Johnny Cash, country music singer and guitarist Holidays and observances Programmer's day on leap years. See also: September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries
September 11 - September 13 - August 12 - October 12 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries