About September 12
September 12, 2025 is the 255th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 12
- 1213 –Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 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.
- 1910 –Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
- 1919 –Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 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.
- 1938 –Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940 –Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1959 –The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1961 –The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1966 –Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
- 1979 –Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- 1984 –Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 1992 –Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path’s leadership fell as well.
- 1994 –Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- 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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