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September 12
September 12 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. 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) * 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 * 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 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 Holidays and observances * Programmer's day on leap years.
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