About September 12
September 12, 2024 is the 256th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 12
- 372 –Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 1229 –The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
- 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.
- 1846 –Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- 1874 –The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1897 –Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- 1952 –Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- 1959 –The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1980 –Military coup in Turkey.
- 1990 –The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
- 2001 –Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- 2007 –Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
- 2008 –The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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