Today in History – September 12th

Published September 12, 2012 |

1609, Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1683, Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna, several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1814, Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1818, Richard Gatling, American firearms inventor (d. 1903) was born.
1846, Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1847, Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1848, Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1857, Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian Politician and business. Founder of the Republic. (d. 1919) was born.
1869, Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779) died.
1874, The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1890, Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1892, Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher (d. 1984) was born.
1913, Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980) was born.
1919, Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
1938, Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1940, An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1940, Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1942, WWII: 1st day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign.
1942, WWII: RMS Laconia is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1943, WWII: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commandos.
1944, Barry White, American singer (d. 2003) was born.
1944, WWII: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues.
1952, Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1953, US Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1958, Jack Kilby demonstrates the 1st integrated circuit.
1959, Premiere of Bonanza, the 1st regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959, The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
1964, Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1970, Palestinian terrorists blow up 3 hijacked airliners in Jordan.
1974, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
1977, Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946) died.
1983, USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
1992, Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932) died.
1993, Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917) died.
2003, Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932) died.

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